Man Utd news: Final Erik ten Hag sack request made as Jim Ratcliffe told who to hire

Manchester United person remained engaged during the planetary interruption and Erik 10 Hag appears to person avoided being relieved of his duties astatine Old Trafford with small implicit a week until Brentford

It whitethorn beryllium the planetary interruption but determination has been nary shortage of Manchester United.

Erik 10 Hag appears to person survived the sack for present aft meetings betwixt the club's hierarchy earlier this week. Though speculation implicit his aboriginal remains and theories are emerging implicit what whitethorn hap next.

While the Dutchman has spent some clip connected holiday, helium whitethorn present beryllium pondering the club's wounded concern and hoping matters are not made worse via the planetary fixtures taking place. With United welcoming Brentford to Old Trafford successful small implicit a week, careless of his ain security, a triumph is required.

Mirror Football takes a look astatine immoderate of the bigger stries presently surrounding the club.

Noussair Mazraoui timeline

United defender Noussair Mazraoui is facing a prolonged spell retired of enactment aft undergoing surgery.

The defender, has started each 7 of United's Premier League games this play astatine right-back, was substituted astatine half-time against Aston Villa and pulled retired of Morocco's planetary matches. Mazraoui is present facing respective weeks connected the sidelines pursuing a precautionary corrective process aft experiencing bosom palpitations.

While the information is said to beryllium comparatively communal and Mazraoui is expected to marque a afloat recovery, United person not enactment a timescale connected the expected instrumentality of the summertime signing from Bayern Munich.

Sir Jim Ratcliffe request

United co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe has demanded United's elder figures utilized an 'evidence based' approach, akin to INEOS, to guarantee that each decisions are unanimous and based connected facts and figures.

According to the Independent, Ratcliffe requested for a 'forensic' attack during the crunch gathering successful London earlier this week erstwhile Ten Hag's aboriginal was connected the docket and 1 fig is understood to person argued for a alteration to beryllium made immediately.

Ratcliffe was warned by different successful the gathering of imaginable 'disruption' that could get arsenic a effect and concerns implicit the deficiency of disposable replacements was highlighted. The seven-hour meeting, which saw Sir Dave Brailsford, directors Dan Ashworth and Jason Wilcox and CEO Omar Berrada travel together, has seen nary connection look from the nine and it appears the Dutchman has survived the archetypal review.

Manchester United recruitment fix

Former Premier League prima Paul Merson believes that Manchester United legends Gary Neville and Rio Ferdinand should person been enactment successful complaint of the club's recruitment.

Recent seasons person seen a fig of transportation failures with deals to motion Antony and Mason Mount peculiarly criticised. Merson belives Neville and Ferdinand person the tools to assistance the nine determination forward.

"I would person enactment idiosyncratic similar Gary Neville successful complaint of the recruitment," Merson told Sky Sports. "Gary has been astatine that nine each his career, and helium knows shot wrong out.

"You enactment idiosyncratic similar him successful charge, oregon Rio Ferdinand, idiosyncratic similar that oregon adjacent some of them together, and you spell ‘right, we privation to physique this club- what players should we beryllium bringing in?’"

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