I understood that there was a different way of playing," Rangnick said. Klopp and Tuchel swear by the intense scheme Rangnick first adopted after watching Valeriy Lobanovskyi's Dynamo Kiev in the 1980s. Rangnick rejected an interim offer from Chelsea in January, paving the way for Tuchel to win the Champions League in his first season with the Blues. Klopp used Rangnick's tactics to become a Premier League and European champion at Liverpool, while Chelsea boss Tuchel is an ardent admirer after United's new manager gave him his first coaching job at Stuttgart. ![]() That could turn out to be a blessing in disguise if the 63-year-old can emulate the success enjoyed by his devoted pupils at Liverpool and Chelsea. United lured Rangnick from his role as Lokomotiv Moscow's head of sports and development after learning Paris Saint-Germain were not willing to part with Mauricio Pochettino at present. Solskjaer's failed reign was defined by an acute lack of coherent game-planning.īut Rangnick's role in championing the "gegenpressing" (counter-pressing) philosophy popularised by Liverpool boss Klopp suggests United are about to be dragged into the 21st century. United hired Rangnick on Monday after Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was sacked last week following a humiliating 4-1 defeat at Watford that featured the kind of confusion and lethargy that are anathema to the German.
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