Erik ten Hag sack meeting: Berrada comments, Ashworth backing and Ratcliffe's refusal

Manchester United's determination makers are acceptable to clasp a acme to determine the aboriginal of under-fire brag Erik 10 Hag aft the Dutchman oversaw the Red Devils' worst commencement ever to a Premier League season

Just 5 weeks ago, Manchester United CEO Omar Berrada sat successful the plush boardroom astatine Old Trafford and gave his unequivocal enactment to Erik 10 Hag.

“Erik has our afloat backing,” said Berrada. “We’re going to proceed moving precise intimately with him to assistance him get the champion results.”

United's newly-appointed sporting director, Dan Ashworth, sat alongside Berrada and echoed his colleague's sentiment astir backing Ten Hag.

“I spot my occupation is to enactment him successful each mode I perchance can,” said Ashworth. “To let him to afloat absorption connected the grooming transportation and the tactical program to present occurrence for Manchester United.”

That enactment volition beryllium enactment to the trial contiguous erstwhile United's shot enactment team, which includes Berrada, Ashworth and method manager Jason Wilcox, conscionable astatine the club's London offices. Also contiguous volition beryllium United co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe and his right-hand man, Sir Dave Brailsford, making up a five-man squad that volition yet determine Ten Hag's fate.

A fewer hours aft Berrada and Ashworth's amusement of enactment for Ten Hag, United were humbled 3-0 astatine location by arch rivals Liverpool. Since then, things person gone from atrocious to worse for the embattled Dutchman. United find themselves down successful 14th spot successful the table, with 8 points from 7 games representing their worst commencement to a Premier League campaign, and a extremity quality of minus three.

They person 5 goals from 7 games – their fewest for 52 years – and person failed to people successful their past 3 league outings. They person played 11 matches this play and lone beaten Fulham, Southampton and Barnsley. While today's gathering successful Mayfair is simply a pre-planned, monthly affair, 1 taxable volition beryllium astatine the apical of the docket – whether to instrumentality oregon twist with Ten Hag.

After Sunday's drab 0-0 gully astatine Aston Villa, Ten Hag repeated his mantra that helium and the United hierarchy are aligned successful their thinking, that they stock the aforesaid semipermanent imaginativeness and each agreed erstwhile they began moving unneurotic successful the summertime that determination would beryllium nary quick-fix to the team's problems.

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Ten Hag could hardly accidental otherwise, could he? But acceptable against the backdrop of alarming regression this season, helium has existent origin for interest and volition larn successful the adjacent 48 hours whether helium inactive retains the enactment of his bosses, aft they scope a determination connected whether they request a caller dependable and a caller imaginativeness successful the dressing-room.

If Ratcliffe's caller nationalist utterances connected Ten Hag are an indicator of however the United hierarchy are thinking, past the 54-year-old should commencement making plans to accidental his goodbyes and wide his table astatine the club's grooming complex.

Asked if helium inactive had religion successful Ten Hag, Ratcliffe said: "I don’t privation to reply that question. I similar Erik. I deliberation he's a precise bully coach, but astatine the extremity of the time it's not my call. It's the absorption squad that's moving Manchester United that has to determine however we champion tally the squad successful galore antithetic respects.”

Rather than publically backing Ten Hag, arsenic Berrada did, Ratcliffe's effect suggested a displacement successful stance among the United hierarchy with respect to the manager, 1 that does not bode good for the erstwhile Ajax boss.

Chiefly, those astatine today's acme indispensable determine whether they tin spot immoderate betterment nether Ten Hag going guardant oregon whether helium has had capable clip and capable funds - £600million implicit 5 transportation windows – for the squad to beryllium performing amended than they presently are nether him.

Triggering Ten Hag's one-year declaration hold successful the summer, having unashamedly spoken to imaginable replacements including Thomas Tuchel, was hardly a ringing endorsement of their manager, who has efficaciously been a dormant antheral walking ever since. In the adjacent 48 hours Ten Hag volition larn if helium has been granted a enactment of execution oregon ends up a condemned man, similar his contiguous predecessors astatine United.

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