Brentford boss Thomas Frank sends message to Erik ten Hag ahead of Man Utd audition

Brentford manager Thomas Frank has impressed the higher-ups astatine Manchester United, and volition person a accidental to pit his wits against under-fire United brag Erik 10 Hag this weekend

Thomas Frank has insisted helium is precise blessed astatine Brentford amid speech of Manchester United interest, but hasn't closed the doorway connected an eventual exit.

Frank has been successful complaint successful West London since 2018, erstwhile predecessor Dean Smith near for Aston Villa. In that clip helium has led the Bees to promotion to the Premier League and kept them determination for what is present a 4th top-flight season.

Manchester United's higher-ups are understood to person been impressed with the enactment the Dane has done truthful far, with questions remaining implicit Erik 10 Hag's future. Ten Hag has remained successful his station contempt United signaling their worst ever Premier League start, and claimed draws against Porto and Aston Villa up of the planetary break.

As it happens, United's precise adjacent crippled sees them big Brentford successful the Premier League. Speaking successful the lead-up to the game, which immoderate person dubbed an audition for the visiting boss, Frank has opened up connected his future.

Speaking to talkSPORT, Frank was quizzed connected the assertion from Manchester City brag Pep Guardiola successful September that the Brentford brag moving into a apical managerial occupation was "just a question of time". "I've said galore times I'm precise blessed astatine Brentford," Frank began.

"Who knows what volition hap successful the future. Maybe I enactment present for galore years. I'm open, possibly thing happens. But archetypal and foremost, precise happy, conscionable moving precise hard each time to marque the nine better."

When pushed further connected his notation to the future, helium said: "That's due to the fact that it's precise hard to foretell the future. Who knows what volition happen. How galore coaches person been astatine the aforesaid nine much than six years? Very few."

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United near it precocious to clinch a comeback triumph against Frank's Brentford successful the corresponding fixture successful October 2023. Mathias Jensen scored successful the archetypal fractional for the visitors and it was inactive 1-0 going into stoppage-time, lone for Scott McTominay to people doubly to manus triumph to Ten Hag's team.

McTominay near for Napoli implicit the summertime successful 1 of a fig of elder exits, portion Ten Hag is without different elder stars done injury. Centre-backs Leny Yoro and Harry Maguire are absent, arsenic are left-backs Luke Shaw and Tyrell Malacia, portion Manuel Ugarte whitethorn miss out aft an wounded scare connected planetary duty.

Ten Hag's squad are winless successful 5 matches, failing to people successful 3 of those games. However, helium appeared much assured implicit his aboriginal pursuing a goalless gully astatine Villa Park past clip out. Thomas Tuchel, 1 of the managers connected the radar of United's higher-ups implicit the summertime arsenic they considered a managerial change, has since agreed to instrumentality complaint of the England men's nationalist squad from January.

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