The English newspaper TheTelegraph understands that Erik ten Hag will be allowed to ‘just’ finish the season as coach of Manchester United for the time being. The call for the dismissal of the Dutch trainer reached a peak a day after the humiliation by Crystal Palace (4-0), with a number of club icons also losing confidence in Ten Hag.
“Telegraph Sports understands that United does not intend to dismiss Ten Hag before the FA Cup final against Manchester City on May 25,” reporter Matt Law wrote in the English quality newspaper on Tuesday afternoon. Although that is the former coach of FC Utrecht and could offer Ajax ‘some hope’ of securing his job ‘one way or another’, part of the playing group is now convinced that Ten Hag’s fate has now in fact been determined.
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However, Paul Scholes and Michael Owen, among others, would rather see Ten Hag leave today than tomorrow. “At some point you have to make a decision,” says Owen Premier League productions in response to United’s painful defeat at Selhurst Park on Monday. “Manchester City is really not going to leave anything to them,” the former international expresses his fear for the cup final. Ten Hag may not score a single point in the three remaining league matches, Owen predicts: “Arsenal will destroy them at Old Trafford, Newcastle United will probably also beat them and I don’t even give them much of a chance against Brighton,” says the Ballon d’. Or winner of 2001.
Owen also sees no influence whatsoever from Ten Hag’s assistant Steve McClaren on the game of the errant top club. “He is a brilliant coach and this team is not coached at all.” Scholes, who experienced the former FC Twente coach as assistant to Sir Alex Ferguson and as England coach, agrees with this. “There really aren’t that many bad players at United, right?” the former midfielder points out. “It looks like they’re not being coached, that’s the manager’s fault. It looks like they don’t want to fight anymore.”
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