Manchester United has four games left in 2023-2024: three days of the Premier League (Arsenal, Newcastle and Brighton) and the FA Cup final against Manchester City. Although the Daily Mail notes that “it has been suggested among staff that Steve McClaren could take over if the situation falls apart,” the intention of Sir Jim Ratcliffe, new owner of 25% of the red devilsis that Erik ten Hag directs these meetings. However, these could be the final farewell for the Dutch coach at Old Trafford.
Everything that seemed to be rebuilding after eliminating Liverpool (4-3) in the FA Cup has collapsed with completely humiliating results. Especially tough was the last defeat suffered against Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park (4-0). So much so that, as said British media has exclusively advanced, “Manchester United players expect Erik ten Hag to be sacked at the end of the season, a scenario that came significantly closer following Monday’s crushing 4-0 defeat to Crystal Palace”.
The project that the former Ajax coach began to build last year at Old Trafford has stalled, and sunk, just one season after it started. The red devilseighth, are currently out of European competitions, that is why “it seems increasingly unlikely that he will survive beyond the end of the season”. Some doubts regarding the figure of Erik ten Hag that, as expected, have been transferred to the squad. “The feeling of uncertainty has seeped into the dressing room and has undermined the coach’s position. It is understood that it is affecting the players’ response to his instructions in matches and training.. Although Erik ten Hag insisted after the Crystal Palace debacle that the players support him, he accused them of ‘making big mistakes, not following the plan, the script and the rules that we have,’ “says the Daily Mail.
The lack of results and reconstruction of the club by INEOS is “eroding the authority of the Dutchman in the locker room”, and his departure, despite having contract until June 2025It seems like a matter of time. “Sir Dave Brailsford, new sporting director, have focused on changing the culture of the club, which “It makes the players assume that the Dutchman no longer figures in Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s plans.”adds this medium.
Erik ten Hag’s departure is not confirmed, but The names of coaches who could succeed the Dutchman at Old Trafford begin to emerge. With Mauricio Pochettino ruled out, a candidate to coach Manchester United before the arrival of the Dutch coach himself, and others like Julian Nagelsmann and Gareth Southgate busy until after the European Championship next summer, the Daily Mail informs: “Thomas Tuchel’s representatives have made it clear that he wants the job as he prepares to leave Bayern Munich.but there are doubts about the abrasive nature of the former Chelsea manager.
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