Man Utd boss Erik ten Hag missed out on job offer after players intervened

Erik 10 Hag continues to beryllium nether unit astatine Manchester United, but helium could person been manning a precise antithetic dugout had things gone otherwise this summer

Erik 10 Hag was earmarked for the Bayern Munich job this summertime earlier the club’s players reportedly made a stand.

Under-fire Manchester United brag Ten Hag teetered connected the borderline of being shown the exit doorway at Old Trafford earlier this year, having slumped to an all-time worst Premier League decorativeness with the Red Devils – earlier redeeming his tegument with an FA Cup triumph implicit neighbours and English champions City.

German giants Bayern were enactment connected announcement by specified uncertainty, as they supposedly viewed the Dutchman arsenic a imaginable replacement for precocious announced England brag Thomas Tuchel, who had severely fallen retired with his club's hierarchy.

However, it was claimed that a ample bulk of the Bayern squad, including Tuchel's expected Three Lions skipper Harry Kane, took a basal and campaigned against Ten Hag’s imaginable arrival.

According to Sky Germany, a pouch of first-team players, including Kane, Manuel Neuer, Thomas Muller, Leroy Sane and Jamal Musiala, each backed the caller England caput coach, preferring the 51-year-old to Ten Hag.

Alas, the bridges betwixt Tuchel and Bayern's committee were burnt beyond repair, and helium was relieved of his duties regardless. Ten Hag was yet offered a one-year declaration hold alternatively of departing Old Trafford, which volition support him astatine United until 2026, and erstwhile Burnley brag Vincent Kompany has since taken up the reins astatine the Allianz Arena.

Yet, said protestation was possibly indicative of however players presumption the Dutchman arsenic a manager, and the dire concern from past run – contempt the religion the caput manager has been entrusted with by Sir Jim Ratcliffe and Co – has not changed.

Ten Hag remains connected tenterhooks astatine Old Trafford, having mustered conscionable 8 points from 7 league games truthful acold this term. He's already suffered 3-0 embarrassments against some Liverpool and Tottenham.

Despite a crunch gathering with United's committee – and reports Ten Hag was fixed his 2 latest matches distant to Porto and Aston Villa to prevention his occupation – vigor soundlessness has fallen connected his future, with the anticipation that helium volition proceed for the clip being.

Speaking past month, however, the 54-year-old seemed optimistic implicit his future, stating: "We each made a determination to enactment unneurotic arsenic an ownership, arsenic a enactment radical successful the summer.

"And also, we made the determination from a wide reappraisal of what we person to amended arsenic an organisation and however we privation to conception a squad. They are each decision-making successful togetherness.

"But we besides knew it would instrumentality immoderate clip due to the fact that of however the model went. Some players were precocious in, and we person to integrate him now. Also, we had to marque immoderate improvements successful organisation. We inactive person to woody with immoderate injuries that interaction players. We volition get amended there. We request immoderate time.

"We are each determination connected 1 page, 1 boat, together, with the ownership, the enactment group, the staff, and the players’ group, truthful I don’t person that concern. Of course, there’s ever a caller game, determination volition beryllium a caller day, and it’s besides evident you person to larn arsenic a team."

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