Expert hails ‘great move’ from Man United as Lense deal agreed
Manchester United have completed a “great move” by adding a full-time pyschologist to Ralf Rangnick’s staff.
That is the view of injury and medical expert Ben Dinnery, who runs the Premier Injuries website and has a background in medicine and data analysis.
As confirmed on Tuesday (7 December), Rangnick has appointed sport psychologist Sascha Lense to his coaching staff.
He has also brought in coach Chris Armas to his backroom team.
Dinnery applauded Lense’s appointment and insisted it would help the players at Old Trafford.
Dinnery told Football Insider’s Russell Edge: “These are the sort of things that tend to go either under the radar or maybe aren’t overtly discussed within the mainstream.
“Certainly there are people who will be consulting and working with players and clubs. I recently had a conversation with Gary Bloom.
“He’s a sports psychotherapist who’s been working with elite level athletes and high-level sports, including within the Premier League for a number of years.
“So just because it’s maybe not necessarily mainstreamed or clubs haven’t announced that they have full-time members of staff, there will still be mechanisms in place.
“I think it’s a great move. It’s about educating people. Helping people understand that you know there’s a lot more to football than just making sure that you’re physically fit and going out there on the pitch.
“There’s a duty of care, a responsibility on the clubs to look after these players. To make sure that their needs are addressed along the way.
“So I think it’s a great move, even if it’s not something which is necessarily new. It may just be new in the fact that they’ve been able to employ a full-time member of staff.”
As a player, Lense spent much of his career in the second tier of German football.
He has worked at Dynamo Dresden, RB Leipzig and Schalke since hanging up his boots.
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