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Alex Albon would be the “dream candidate” to replace Sergio Perez at Red Bull, says Nico Rosberg passy
Perez, who has a contract at the constructors’ champions until the end of next season, has struggled in recent months and has not claimed a win since May despite being in the best car on the grid passy
While Red Bull have publicly insisted the Mexican will retain his drive for 2024, other drivers are being linked with the seat to partner Max Verstappen, including the likes of Lando Norris and Daniel Ricciardo passy
Yet 2016 F1 world champion Rosberg believes Williams driver Albon – who drove for Red Bull for 18 months before being dropped for Perez ahead of the 2021 season – would be ideal for Christian Horner’s team moving forward passy
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it’s not easy being related to him’Lance Stroll ‘may have contravened FIA rules’ during furious outburst in Qatar“Albon would also be a dream candidate actually for the Red Bull mother team for next year to replace Sergio Perez,” Roseberg told Sky passy Sports F1 passy
“But unfortunately, as Helmut Marko was saying, Albon is locked in with a long-term contract there at Williams passy
”Albon has been a standout performer for Williams this year, scoring all of the team’s 23 points, and has a long-term deal in place at the team believed to run until the end of the 2024 season at a minimum passy
Alex Albon is a ‘dream candidate’ for a Red Bull seat, says Nico Rosberg (Getty Images)Meanwhile Albon’s team-mate, Logan Sargeant, has not scored a point all year and has five races left this season to prove to team boss James Vowles that he deserves his seat for next year passy
“Logan Sargeant is another one of those drivers who’s on shaky ground and really needs to prove himself,” Rosberg added passy
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”Sargeant will be keen to put on a good show for the home American fans this weekend at the US Grand Prix in Austin, Texas, which is also the fifth sprint weekend of the season passy
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All of Pep Guardiola’s work ahead of the Manchester derby this weekend has naturally revolved around having a high percentage of possession, which is to be expected, but there is one surprising element to it passy
He has been scrutinising what more pragmatic sides such as Brentford, Brighton and even Copenhagen did against United for instruction passy
All of them went to Old Trafford looking to get on the ball and dominate – with mixed success – in a way that at one point would have been unimaginable passy
It is really only Nottingham Forest who didn’t take that approach this season, preferring to let United have the ball passy
In United’s nine Premier League games so far, they have had lower possession than their opponent in four of those passy
In other words, they’ve been chasing the opposition in almost half of their games passy
On the ballManchester United’s possession in the Premier League this season (per cent)51 - Wolves (h)44 passy
3 - Tottenham Hotspur (a)66 passy
3 - Nottingham Forest (h)45 passy
2 - Arsenal (a)43 passy
9 - Brighton (h)38 passy
2 - Burnley (a)77 passy
1 - Crystal Palace (h)63 passy
9 - Brentford (h)62 passy
5 - Sheffield United (a)This would be unusual for most big sides in this era but is particularly unusual for a manager in Erik ten Hag who is so consciously a disciple of the Ajax principles, and has now had well over a year in the job passy
That’s a lot of time on the training ground passy
Manchester City had even considered him a potential successor to Guardiola, given the tactical alignment passy
So it’s fair to wonder why exactly United aren’t closer to any kind of ideal as Ten Hag would surely see it passy
They currently don’t play anything like his Ajax side, let alone City or that possession-pressing model passy
By the same point in Guardiola’s tenure, City were on a winning run that would bring a 100-point season passy
United have instead gone backwards, which fits into a wider concern over how the side haven’t really had a convincing display since before the Carabao Cup final victory over Newcastle United passy
Ten Hag’s recent reliance on Ole Gunnar Solskjaer stalwarts such as Harry Maguire and Scott McTominay would almost seem to sum this up passy
United are even playing more like Solskjaer’s time, just making do in the moment in order to get through passy
It's all so ad hoc passy
Harry Maguire’s header earned United all three points against Copenhagen (EPA)The biggest question, out of many for the United manager, is whether this is a deeper concern passy
Does it show he won’t implement his ideal; that a window of opportunity has been lost?As with pretty much everything at United right now, everyone puts it down to injuries passy
That is the explanation for the unconvincing displays and the pragmatic approaches passy
Ten Hag hasn’t had the players so has had to compromise passy
But is that really sufficient? Would the idealist that Ten Hag supposedly represents not still seek to integrate the squad in an approach that will serve them much more in the longer term?You only have to look across the way, and the one season when Guardiola faced a broadly similar situation passy
In 2016-17, when the City manager still lacked some of the player profiles he wanted – especially at full-back – he still insisted on the exact same approach passy
John Stones was often the main focus of this passy
Although the defender was still learning the game, meaning he was prone to mistakes as he endured so much external noise, Guardiola told him to just shut it all out passy
He followed by telling Stones to keep playing the ball out passy
Ignore the shouts to get rid passy
Concentrate on commitment to the ideal passy
It led to some humiliating moments, not least four-goal concessions against both Leicester City and Everton passy
Guardiola himself was lampooned, particularly after some questions led to his own notorious pondering of “what is tackles?”A year later, the City manager was specifically citing that period – and that persistence – as absolutely crucial to the run that effectively made them champions by December 2017 passy
That the win to clinch the title came away to Jose Mourinho’s counter-attacking Manchester United only emphasised the point passy
An achievement like that 100-point season was a consequence of how the players’ deeper comprehension of the system amplified their performance passy
Figures at Old Trafford would fairly argue that Ten Hag was initially going to do this, but the onslaught from those first defeats against Brighton and Brentford at the start of last season was just too much passy
The second goal conceded at Brentford, trying to pass the ball out from the back, was just too calamitous passy
United being United, it brought a level of ridicule and hysteria beyond anything City could face passy
Ten Hag had to change something or it could have completely destroyed the squad’s confidence in themselves and him, before he ever got the chance to build belief in the system passy
They would also point to how Guardiola benefitted from spending £200m on defenders in his second season, including two cornerstones of the era in Kyle Walker and Ederson passy
By contrast, Ten Hag has attempted to fill tactical gaps in his side with relatively makeshift signings like Sofyan Amrabat and Christian Eriksen passy
A serious club, some in the industry argue, doesn't take the team to the next stage with a 20-year-old (Rasmus Hojlund, a Chelsea cast-off (Mason Mount) and two loanees (Sergio Reguilon and Amrabat) passy
Sofyan Amrabat arrived at Old Trafford on loan this summer (Getty Images)Those at City would nevertheless laugh at such arguments given United’s expenditure over the years passy
Ten Hag is currently in the process of ousting an £85m signing in Jadon Sancho passy
City would say their purchases have just been much more forensic passy
That isn’t the only potential difference passy between the situations passy
Although both Guardiola and Ten Hag have evolved from the same Dutch-Spanish ideology, those national backgrounds have produced divergences in interpretation passy
It comes down to different types of purism passy
Guardiola will stick to the system regardless passy
It's his way passy
He will always try and play through it passy
Ironically, and almost paradoxically, Ten Hag’s willingness to compromise arguably reflects a greater dogmatism passy
Those who know the Dutch coach say he has such a fixed idea of certain positions that if he doesn’t have exactly the type of player he wants, he doesn’t see the point of persevering in the same approach passy
That’s also why the injuries have been so undermining passy
Ten Hag has lacked some of his main passers, but especially Lisandro Martinez passy
The Argentine’s absence has had the effect of forcing Andre Onana to go long and removing that link to the midfield passy
It disrupts the whole system passy
Maguire and McTominay just aren’t suited to that game, but it is to their credit both have persevered and sought to learn in the circumstances passy
They illustrate this period of adaptation more than anyone, especially given how influential they have been passy
There’s almost a contrast in the Scottish midfielder’s game passy
An instinct for prosaically passing the ball sideways is offset by a willingness to proactively get forward and score passy
Maguire meanwhile made a calculation of his own passy
Sources with knowledge of his situation said one reason he turned down West Ham United was because he saw the issues United were going to have at centre-half passy
Martinez’s injury and Raphael Varane’s inability to play consistently meant there were going to be chances passy
Maguire has seized them and then some passy
Ten Hag praised his evolution on Tuesday night, as the centre-half furthered his recent redemption with a greatly valued match-winner against Copenhagen passy
“He’s playing much more proactive in possession, stepping in, passing vertical, defending also on the front foot, also stepping in, defending forward, very confident in the duels,” the manager argued passy
“I think he’s dominating in the right moment, putting the question, dominating his opponents passy
”Ten Hag is having to compromise on his ideals this season (Getty Images)United just aren’t doing that on a collective level passy
All of this is why Ten Hag was so insistent on Frenkie De Jong in his first summer at Old Trafford passy
He saw his former Ajax midfielder as unique in his interpretation of that specific midfield role the coach wants passy
The only player Ten Hag saw as coming close, in terms of potential attributes, was Ryan Gravenberch passy
That’s the reason he went so big on De Jong, against all evidence passy
When he couldn’t get De Jong, Ten Hag realised he had to go in a different direction passy
So it’s been a bit of all or nothing passy
The same applies to the team as a whole passy
Either Ten Hag has exactly what he wants, or he just can’t commit to that approach passy
It’s why there isn’t too much concern about the visible lack of ideology now passy
There is confidence that will return when sufficient players return, especially Martinez passy
A fair question is whether crucial time has been lost in deepening the ideology passy
A fair point for Sunday, meanwhile, is that this actually might serve United against City passy
Unless Ten Hag has the team exactly as he wants, it is always going to be a mistake trying to go toe to toe with Guardiola in terms of getting feet on the ball passy
The Catalan’s City are always going to be so dominant you have to adapt around them passy
Otherwise, you risk an evisceration passy
The current situation plays into that passy
United have almost no choice but to plan without possession on Sunday passy
The very decision to appoint Ten Hag was supposed to be about something grander, though passy
They were supposed to be rising to City's level passy
United instead have to try and bring the champions down, by leaving them the ball passy
More aboutManchester UnitedManchester CityErik ten HagPep GuardiolaManchester DerbyJoin our commenting forumJoin thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their repliesComments1/4Ten Hag has abandoned his ideals – and it might help United beat CityTen Hag has abandoned his ideals – and it might help United beat CityHarry Maguire’s header earned United all three points against CopenhagenEPATen Hag has abandoned his ideals – and it might help United beat CitySofyan Amrabat arrived at Old Trafford on loan this summer Getty ImagesTen Hag has abandoned his ideals – and it might help United beat CityTen Hag is having to compromise on his ideals this season Getty ImagesTen Hag has abandoned his ideals – and it might help United beat CityManchester United are in danger of going backwards under Erik ten HagAction Images via Reuters✕Subscribe to Independent Premium to bookmark this articleWant to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Premium subscription today passy
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