Manchester United lining up ex-Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel to replace Erik ten Hag

Manchester United are plotting a determination for Thomas Tuchel, with aggravated unit mounting connected Erik 10 Hag aft a wretched commencement to the campaign.

The Red Devils had their worst ever play successful the Premier League past play but Ten Hag was fixed the backing of nine bosses aft steering the broadside to an improbable FA Cup last triumph implicit Manchester City.

However, it was an unfastened concealed that United had been speaking with managerial candidates astatine the commencement of the summertime and the Dutchman appears to beryllium surviving connected borrowed clip erstwhile again, with the Old Trafford giants languishing down successful 14th spot this term.

The likes of Gareth Southgate, Graham Potter and Massimiliano Allegri person each been linked arsenic imaginable successors to Ten Hag, but erstwhile Chelsea caput manager Tuchel has moved to the beforehand of the queue, according to Manchester Evening News.

Tuchel has been retired of a occupation since his departure from Bayern Munich astatine the extremity of past play arsenic portion of ‘a sporting realignment’, conscionable 15 months into his tenure astatine the Allianz Arena.

The study claimsUnited’s hierarchy person scheduled a gathering successful London for contiguous and the information that Tuchel is instantly attainable stands retired arsenic a large ‘attraction’.

It’s understood Tuchel held discussions with United’s co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe earlier this twelvemonth implicit the imaginable of taking implicit the reins astatine the Theatre of Dreams.

Tuchel began his managerial vocation with Augsburg II and went connected to instrumentality complaint of Mainz, Borussia Dortmund and Paris Saint-Germain earlier replacing Frank Lampard astatine Chelsea successful January 2021.

The 51-year-old German guided the Blues to 3 pieces of silverware, including the 2020/21 Champions League, during his 20-month tenure successful westbound London.

‘We took this position, the inaugural came from the club, and truthful it is and I’m good with it,’ Tuchel said regarding his Bayern Munich exit earlier this summer.

‘I don’t request it for the other percent of competitiveness due to the fact that I’m ever up for a win, I’m ever reasoning however to amended the squad oregon however to amended myself successful coaching.

‘We spell each in. Does it person an power connected wherever I americium adjacent season? Maybe not.

‘Maybe I’m connected vacation nary substance what, let’s see, let’s see.’

In the aftermath of Sunday’s goalless gully with Aston Villa, Ten Hag insisted helium inactive had the enactment of the United board.

Asked whether Ratcliffe and his advisors inactive backed him, Ten Hag replied: ‘I don’t person immoderate thought that’s antithetic due to the fact that [otherwise] they should person told me. We pass precise openly. It’s precise transparent.

‘We are each connected committee together, connected 1 page. We cognize what we are moving done is simply a semipermanent process. I talk continually with them. After the crippled I person to bash my occupation – talking to the players, managing the players and answering questions from the media.

‘But we ever speech each week. I would accidental we speech each time truthful I expect I volition talk to them.’

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