‘Lads, it’s Man Utd’ – Ten Hag WILL be sacked after turning Sir Alex Ferguson’s famous three-word team talk on its head

FIRST, the casual portion — Erik 10 Hag indispensable spell and Erik 10 Hag WILL spell earlier long.

Perhaps arsenic soon as Sunday’s sojourn to Aston Villa and astir apt astatine immoderate point during October.

The home thumping by Tottenham was the TENTH time  Manchester United person been thrashed by 3 goals oregon much successful conscionable implicit 2 years of the Dutchman’s reign.

Ten Hag’s United don’t conscionable suffer consistently, they are thrashed consistently.

Crystal Palace, Bournemouth, Brighton and Brentford are among the teams to have demolished his outfit.

Sir Alex Ferguson’s astir celebrated three-word squad speech — “Lads, it’s Tottenham” — could present beryllium turned connected its caput by Ange Postecoglou oregon respective other Premier League bosses.

“Lads, it’s Man United.”

Facing United hasn’t held a fearfulness origin for galore years.

Now, it is simply a fixture openly relished by galore — a big-name scalp which is comparatively casual to travel by.

There has been a regular rhythm of doom astir Old Trafford for the past 11 years, nether six different managers.

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United are trounced connected a Sunday afternoon, Gary Neville and Roy Keane rant connected the telly, everyone speculates connected the manager’s aboriginal connected a Monday.

Managers travel and go, galore players linger for excessively long, and United proceed to beryllium largely terrible.

Yet nether Ten Hag — who offers small arsenic a manager oregon man-manager — the atrocious days are adjacent worse.

It was the incorrect determination for Sir Jim Ratcliffe and his Ineos unit to support religion with the former Ajax brag aft last season’s FA Cup win.

And past to person signed different tranche of overpriced Dutch players.

Ratcliffe volition realise that by now, and it is lone a substance of clip earlier Ten Hag is gone.

So present for the hard part. Who, realistically, takes over?

And, much pertinently, who would privation to?

This is simply a mid-table squad astatine an underachieving club, with a batch of unwanted players connected large money.

And Ratcliffe is an instinctive cost-cutter who whitethorn not wage apical dollar to the adjacent manager.

If this nine wasn’t called ‘Manchester United’, it wouldn’t beryllium an particularly desirable job.

The bully quality for United is that their caller sporting director, Dan Ashworth, is simply a precise decent justice of a manager.

He has been instrumental successful 3 erstwhile managerial appointments — Gareth Southgate for England, Graham Potter for Brighton and Eddie Howe for Newcastle.

None were wildly fashionable astatine the time, each were conspicuous successes.
Interestingly, Ashworth’s No 1 prime for the Newcastle occupation was Unai Emery, who turned him down to enactment astatine Villarreal but has since proved that judgement close by excelling astatine Aston Villa.

Not galore options

Emery whitethorn good present the coup de grace to Ten Hag connected Sunday — particularly with Bruno Fernandes suspended and Kobbie Mainoo an wounded doubt.

And the Spaniard would beryllium an fantabulous acceptable for United — yet determination is adjacent to nary accidental that helium would wantonness Villa’s Champions League run to instrumentality the Old Trafford job, not slightest due to the fact that helium isn’t a stark raving madman.

Howe would beryllium different bully campaigner to win Ten Hag but, though helium has go frustrated connected Tyneside, the Saudis would surely not let Ratcliffe to poach Howe, arsenic they reluctantly did with Ashworth.

Potter is disposable but his Chelsea acquisition and deficiency of charisma would marque him a pugnacious sell.

Which brings america to Southgate, who remains adjacent with Ashworth and is an fantabulous man-manager who was seriously considered by United past spring.

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Yet, contempt having led England to 2 of their 3 large finals, Southgate’s estimation for over-caution was lone enhanced during the Euros.

Mauricio Pochettino, passed implicit doubly by United, is retired of the  equation having taken the United States job.

Thomas Tuchel would beryllium a fashionable and gettable enactment but, contempt being a good manager and a precise engaging man, helium is considered thing of a escaped cannon.

Likewise, Roberto De Zerbi, present astatine Marseille aft his little Brighton stint sparkled past fizzled out.

Kieran McKenna — a talented erstwhile United manager who has won back-to-back promotions with Ipswich Town — is an intriguing campaigner but the imminent vacancy whitethorn travel a twelvemonth oregon truthful excessively soon.

Marco Silva, the highly under-rated Fulham boss, has been connected United’s radar and should not beryllium discounted.

Replacement needs to win

Sporting Lisbon’s Ruben Amorim, past season’s ‘next large thing’, was passed implicit by West Ham arsenic good arsenic Liverpool this summertime and is not an casual antheral to pin down.

Zinedine Zidane, who has taken implicit from Alan Curbishley arsenic a 20-1 changeable for each Premier League job, is simply a "figurehead" manager and not an Ashworth type.

Ruud van Nistelrooy, the erstwhile United extremity instrumentality who joined Ten Hag’s coaching squad successful the summertime is the bookies’ favourite. Simply due to the fact that he’s successful the gathering and he’s Dutch.

So, yes, getting escaped of Ten Hag is the casual part.

For Ratcliffe, Ashworth and the remainder of United’s caller absorption structure, the hard portion is what happens next.

And it is simply a determination they desperately request to nail.