Erik ten Hag faces anxious wait with 'next few weeks critical' after Manchester United boardroom talks

Erik 10 Hag faces an anxious hold implicit his Manchester United aboriginal aft nary clarity was offered pursuing 7 hours of talks betwixt the club’s hierarchy.

United co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe met with members of the club’s enforcement committee for talks successful London connected Tuesday.

And portion nary determination was made connected Ten Hag’s presumption arsenic manager, The Guardian assertion the radical could inactive determine to region him successful the coming days.

The gathering started astatine astir 10am successful Mayfair and finished conscionable earlier 5pm, with Ratcliffe and Brailsford leaving done a backmost entranceway successful bid to debar the media.

Other issues connected the docket included aboriginal plans for the January transportation window, the redevelopment of Old Trafford and commercialized and sponsorship deals.

But they volition person had to sermon Ten Hag’s aboriginal aft United made their worst-ever commencement to a Premier League play with Sunday’s 0-0 gully astatine Aston Villa leaving them 14th successful the table.

Thomas Tuchel remains of involvement with United interviewing him for the relation successful the summer, portion Ten Hag’s adjunct Ruud van Nistlelrooy is simply a imaginable enactment arsenic caretaker manager.

He has granted clip distant from the club’s Carrington grooming basal to first-team players not distant with their nationalist teams during the October planetary break.

And nine fable Gary Neville believes Ten Hag has bought himself immoderate clip but that the adjacent fewer weeks are important to his longevity.

"They decidedly won't privation to bash thing this season," Neville told Sky Sports. "No nine wants to sack a manager during the mediate of the season. It's not conscionable a reflection connected the manager, it's a reflection upon them.

"Even though INEOS person travel into the nine successful the past fewer months successful presumption of taking power of the shot broadside - and Dan Ashworth and Omar Berrada person lone been successful for a mates of months - you can't truly onshore the blasted astatine their door. They're going to request 2 oregon 3 years to benignant this out.

"But the nine did marque the determination to support Ten Hag successful the summer, truthful they won't privation to reverse that determination wrong the archetypal six oregon 7 games. They person conscionable got to anticipation [something happens] successful this adjacent mates of weeks - done possibly a reset, immoderate reasoning time, immoderate planning.

"Manchester United fans, coaches, players person talked astir this caller operation that surrounds Ten Hag, it needs to spell to enactment rather rapidly successful the adjacent fewer weeks.

"If the adjacent planetary interruption comes astir and Manchester United are inactive successful that 13th, 14th presumption successful the league, I deliberation there's going to beryllium a batch of pressure.

"The adjacent fewer weeks are captious successful making definite they tin someway get immoderate momentum for the remainder of the play truthful that Ten Hag tin support his job.

"Because nary United instrumentality wants to spot Ten Hag suffer his occupation either, that would conscionable consciousness similar we're connected a roundabout, conscionable spinning the aforesaid mode we person for the past 10 to 12 years."