Manchester United next manager odds after Erik ten Hag sacked

Manchester United are connected the hunt for a caller manager aft having decided to sack Erik 10 Hag pursuing the club’s mediocre commencement to the season.

A melodramatic and controversial decision to West Ham connected Sunday near United successful 14th spot successful the Premier League and with conscionable 1 triumph from their past 5 league matches.

Ten Hag was informed of the determination connected Monday morning, with Ruud van Nistelrooy, brought successful arsenic portion of Ten Hag’s coaching unit successful the summer, asked to instrumentality complaint connected an interim basis.

Ten Hag was appointed arsenic United brag up of the 2022/23 Premier League play and guided the nine to a third-place league decorativeness successful his archetypal play successful charge.

The nine besides won the Carabao Cup successful his maiden twelvemonth but the Dutchman besides endured immoderate rocky moments, including a 7-0 thrashing by Liverpool successful March.

Pressure built connected Ten Hag aboriginal successful his 2nd aft 4 defeats successful their archetypal 7 crippled which included dispiriting location defeats against Brighton and Crystal Palace.

That lowly league decorativeness looked to awesome the extremity of Ten Hag’s tenure, with the club’s caller owners openly speaking to different candidates, but the 54-year-old was fixed a enactment of execution for United’s FA Cup last against Manchester City.

And having masterminded a daze upset against their arch-rivals astatine Wembley, Ten Hag was yet rewarded with a one-year declaration hold and a ballot of assurance by the club’s elder hierarchy.

However, contempt being backed handsomely successful the summertime with implicit £200million spent connected caller signings, Ten Hag’s failed to amusement signs of tangible improvements to commencement the season.

Heavy early-season defeats to Liverpool and Tottenham coupled with a disappointing commencement to the Europa League yet brought to an extremity the Dutchman’s spell astatine Old Trafford.

United volition present statesman the task of replacing Ten Hag, with interim manager Van Nistelrooy the aboriginal favourite to instrumentality the occupation connected a imperishable basis.

Next Man Utd manager odds

Sporting Lisbon boss, who was recently linked with the City job, is besides precocious up connected the likelihood list, arsenic is erstwhile England manager Gareth Southgate who was linked with the occupation implicit the summer.

Thomas Frank and erstwhile Barcelona caput manager Xavi are besides fancied for the job, particularly aft his lad was pictured successful a United apical implicit the weekend.

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