Manchester United are standing by Erik ten Hag however the Dutchman faces a probably pivotal week within the battle to avoid wasting his job.
Ten Hag is beneath big stress once more following Sunday’s 3-0 defeat to Tottenham at Previous Trafford left United within the backside half of the Premier League desk with a minus purpose distinction.
Sources say the membership are remaining calm within the face of the newest storm to engulf Ten Hag and are uncomfortable with any suggestion that he has two video games to keep away from the sack.
However there may be an acceptance that outcomes should enhance and United will wish to see a response from Ten Hag’s staff in Thursday’s Europa League tie away to FC Porto and Sunday’s journey to Aston Villa.
It’s adopted by a two-week worldwide break which might give United’s minority proprietor Sir Jim Ratcliffe a transparent alternative to make a change if he decides that Ten Hag’s time is up.
Erik ten Hag faces an important week within the battle to avoid wasting his job as Manchester United supervisor
High executives nonetheless again him however outcomes should enhance shortly ((L-R, prime) Dave Brailsford, Omar Berrada, Dan Ashworth and Jason Wilcox)
United had been second finest for all the recreation on Sunday as they had been schooled by Spurs
United have misplaced half of their six Premier League video games this season together with back-to-back 3-0 defeats at house to Spurs and Liverpool.
It’s solely a month since new chief govt Omar Berrada gave Ten Hag his public backing, and sources insist that everybody continues to be pulling in the identical course. However United will come beneath growing stress to behave if the Dutchman can’t cease the rot.
Berrada and the opposite members of the management staff – Sir Dave Brailsford, Dan Ashworth and Jason Wilcox – sat stony-faced within the administrators’ field at Previous Trafford as targets from Brennan Johnson, Dejan Kulusevski and Dominic Solanke inflicted the newest blow on Ten Hag.
Afterwards the supervisor insisted that he doesn’t worry the sack and is aligned with the membership. ‘No, I am not excited about this,’ he stated. ‘All of us made this resolution to remain collectively, as an possession, as a management group in the summertime.
‘Additionally we made the choice from a transparent evaluate what we’ve got to enhance as an organisation, however we knew it’s going to take a while.
‘We’re all on one web page, or in a single boat, collectively – the possession, the management group, the employees and the gamers as properly. I haven’t got that concern. In fact, there may be all the time a brand new recreation, it is going to be a brand new day. We are going to bounce again.’
The pundits decoding the newest debacle weren’t so positive.
Former United captain Gary Neville blasted United’s efficiency as ‘disgusting’
Alan Shearer (left) has branded Man United ‘b****y terrible’ whereas Gary Lineker (proper) thinks the gamers seem like ‘misplaced souls’ after their 3-0 defeat by Tottenham
Strain is piling on Erik ten Hag with United sitting twelfth within the Premier League six video games in
‘In all probability one of many worst halves I’ve seen beneath Ten Hag and that is saying one thing,’ stated Gary Neville. ‘[Ten Hag] cannot imagine what he is watching. I am unable to imagine what I am watching, it is terrible. It truly is unhealthy.
‘I think there have been higher Sunday league groups this morning that what we have seen from United this primary half. Pub soccer.’
In the meantime, Alan Shearer instructed The Relaxation Is Soccer: ‘Spurs had been by miles the higher staff. They had been up for it greater than Man United had been. They began rather well, had been the higher staff, and I believed Man United had been shambolic, terrible, and fortunate to get away with three.
‘What are they? Can anybody inform me: what are Man United? What’s their system, what’s their plan? Do they sit? Do they assault? Do they press? I have not obtained a clue what they’re. They are a mess.’
After Micah Richards claimed United had been ‘inconsistent,’ Shearer hit again: ‘Inconsistent? They’re twelfth within the league. Which means they are not inconsistent – which means they’re b****y terrible.’
United’s document of two wins, a draw, and three defeats is similar to how they began beneath David Moyes within the 2013-14 season – and followers know the way that one turned out.
