Erik ten Hag felt ‘let down’ by three senior Man Utd stars before sacking

Erik 10 Hag felt helium was ‘let down’ by a fig of elder players successful the Manchester United squad, including Marcus Rashford and Casemiro.

The Dutchman was fixed his marching orders connected Monday the time aft the 2-1 decision to West Ham, United’s 4th decision successful 9 Premier League games which near them slumped 14thin the table.

Ruud van Nistelrooy volition instrumentality complaint of tonight’s Carabao Cup clash against Leicester City with the nine hopeful of bringing in Ruben Amorim from Sporting Lisbon arsenic their caller imperishable brag earlier the weekend.

Ten Hag departs having won the Carabao Cup and FA Cup successful his 2 seasons successful complaint successful Manchester.

That occurrence astatine Wembley past May saved him from the sack astatine the extremity of past play aft a miserable extremity to the Premier League run but a deficiency of immoderate existent advancement this word aft being backed heavy successful the summertime signalled the end.

While the erstwhile Ajax brag is not thought to person mislaid the dressing country by the end, The Daily Star study Ten Hag felt helium had been fto down by immoderate elder players, including Casemiro, Rashford and Antony.

Casemiro joined United from Real Madrid during Ten Hag’s archetypal summertime successful charge, enjoying a superb archetypal run successful Manchester. The Brazilian struggled past play nevertheless and was dropped from the squad for the FA Cup last against City.

Rashford was among the players disciplined by Ten Hag during his clip successful charge, dropped from the starting XI implicit his timekeeping successful January 2023.

The guardant was besides forced to apologise to the manager for going to a pre-arranged day enactment successful October past twelvemonth conscionable hours aft United were thrashed 3-0 astatine location to Manchester City.

Rashford was successful blistery h2o again successful February aft helium missed grooming up of an FA Cup lucifer having been spotted partying successful Belfast conscionable hours before.

Antony meantime has persistently struggled since his £84million determination from Ajax, managing conscionable a infinitesimal of Premier League enactment this term.

Bruno Fernandes, Alejandro Garnacho and Kobbie Mainoo were among those to wage lukewarm tributes to Ten Hag pursuing quality of his dismissal.  

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