Man Utd in huge security scare as changing room at Aston Villa is bugged with Erik Ten Hag’s team talks recorded

MANCHESTER United’s dressing country was bugged earlier their lucifer astatine Aston Villa successful a shocking information breach.

A prankster claims helium hoodwinked Villa Park unit to sneak successful and works a hidden instrumentality 2 days earlier the 0-0 gully past Sunday.

It recorded under-fire manager Erik 10 Hag’s team talks for the crunch Premier League game.

Aston Villa instantly launched an probe aft The Sun alerted the nine yesterday.

A root said: “This is simply a shocking breach of information and immoderate superior questions volition beryllium asked arsenic to however this was allowed to happen. Fortunately, determination was thing sinister to this incident.

“It was conscionable a prankster, who’s really a United fan, being silly and wanting to perceive what was said wrong those 4 walls. But it volition decidedly beryllium a origin for interest astir however they managed to get wrong a changing country astatine 1 of the Premier League’s biggest clubs conscionable days earlier a match.”

The Sun has heard the recordings but is choosing not to people details of them.

However, we tin uncover Ten Hag’s instructions to the squad and idiosyncratic players tin intelligibly beryllium heard.

The Sun understands the prankster utilized a telephone from China that has a mounting wherever a microphone tin beryllium activated by calling it from different device.

He had sticky-taped the handset determination retired of show successful the United dressing country and lone rang it erstwhile helium knew the manager would beryllium successful there.

High alert

Sources claimed the culprit liable adjacent had the nervus to cod the instrumentality connected Monday.

It is simply a akin stunt to the 1 that saw a Match of the Day workplace deed with porn noises portion unrecorded connected aerial successful 2023.

That was the enactment of Daniel “Jarvo” Jarvis.

However, it is believed that helium had nary engagement successful the Villa recordings.

The latest stunt comes with Premier League chiefs already connected precocious alert aft a drawstring of pranks targeting stadiums and teams.

In May, United were targeted by YouTuber Lizwani - who antecedently got connected signifier astatine the Baftas alongside the Oppenheimer cast.

He managed to sneak connected to the Red Devils’ squad autobus aft a 4-0 hammering astatine Crystal Palace’s Selhurst Park.

Lizwani brazenly took a spot earlier helium was removed.

That breach led to Prem bosses firing disconnected alerts to the apical flight’s 20 clubs advising them to ticker retired for akin stunts.

A root said: “These radical are mostly harmless and doing it for a spot of fun.

“They are doing it to get a load of hits connected YouTube and marque their fans laugh. They aren’t trying to origin occupation oregon bash harm to anyone.”

Manchester United person suffered their worst commencement to a Premier League season, sitting successful 14th connected conscionable 8 points aft 7 games.

Ten Hag, 54, told the media aft the crippled astatine Villa helium was “very pleased” with the performance.

It came disconnected the backmost of a 3-3 gully astatine Porto successful the Europa League - wherever they blew a 2-0 pb - and a 3-0 pummelling by Spurs astatine Old Trafford.

Seven hr meeting

The Villa 0-0 was the Red Devils’ 5th crippled without a triumph - their past being a 7-0 Carabao Cup triumph implicit League One broadside Barnsley.

It is simply a acold outcry from the glory days of erstwhile manager Sir Alex Ferguson, who famously called high-pressure moments “squeaky bum time”.

The United hierarchy — including co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe — held a seven-hour gathering astatine Old Trafford past week with Ten Hag’s aboriginal up successful the air.

They person remained soundless implicit the manager’s position, with Sir Jim precocious failing to publically backmost him.

However, Ten Hag — presently connected vacation during the planetary interruption — insists helium inactive has the bosses’ support.

He said: “I don’t person immoderate thought that is antithetic due to the fact that they should person told me.

“We pass — precise open, precise transparent. I would accidental each time we talk, truthful I expect I volition talk with them.”

He dismissed the “external noise”, adding: “Internal, we are disappointed.

“We cognize we person to bash better. Especially, we request to people more.”

In 2016, Old Trafford suffered a weaponry scare aft a dummy instrumentality planted by a information institution was recovered successful a a toilet.

The fiasco led to United’s Premier League crippled against Bournemouth being called off.

Man Utd and Aston Villa were approached for remark yesterday.