Manchester Metropolis supervisor Pep Guardiola has expressed his sympathy for Erik ten Hag after the Dutchman was sacked by Manchester United on Monday.
Ten Hag was dismissed as United supervisor along with his facet 14th within the Premier League desk, having completed eighth final season.
Guardiola’s Metropolis confronted off towards United seven occasions throughout Ten Hag’s 29-month reign at Previous Trafford.
Metropolis received 4 of these video games – together with a 6-3 victory in October 2022 – however United famously beat their neighbours 2-1 within the last of final season’s FA Cup.
Talking on Tuesday, Guardiola had some form phrases for his former rival.
Erik ten Hag was sacked as Manchester United supervisor on Monday – lower than 24 hours after his facet’s 2-1 defeat at West Ham United within the Premier League on Sunday
Pep Guardiola spoke about Ten Hag at a press convention on Tuesday and confirmed sympathy
‘All the time I really feel sorry for managers [when they are sacked], you already know?’ Guardiola stated at a press convention. ‘He is misplaced his place, so I am so sorry for him.
‘I’ve a superb, I feel unimaginable relationship [with him]. I feel he represented Manchester United on the highest degree when it comes to behaviours, in fact.
‘Our job as managers is without doubt one of the few jobs – in all the roles on the earth – the place individuals are anticipating to be sacked. Persons are anticipating you do not have a job.
‘I do not see architects or docs or lecturers or something… the individuals deciding [their futures don’t say]: “Get out.” It is solely us. It is our job, we’ve to just accept it.
Guardiola went on to foretell that Ten Hag will ‘come again stronger’.
Guardiola (left) and Ten Hag (proper) pictured at Wembley throughout final season’s FA Cup last
Ten Hag received the EFL Cup in 2023 and the FA Cup in 2024 however United didn’t come near Metropolis within the league, ending 14 factors behind them in his first season and 31 behind in his second
The Spaniard added: ‘I want him all the most effective, he and his household, and naturally he’ll come again stronger.
‘He is aware of, I do know, all people is aware of: our job relies on the outcomes. The outcomes will not be adequate.
‘I am saying that, and even myself, I am not an exception. If the outcomes will not be good, there is not something that may maintain it. Our job, sadly, is so simple as that. You need to get outcomes.
‘In case you are [there] since you are good-looking, or since you [speak well], or have good relationships with the hierarchies, neglect about it.
‘I’ve an unimaginable relationship with my hierarchy, but when I did not get outcomes, I would not be right here. It is a enterprise, and once you turn out to be a supervisor, it’s a must to understand it.’
Guardiola has been in cost at Man Metropolis since July 2016. His present contract is because of expire in June subsequent yr.
