Next Man Utd manager decided after four names put forward to replace Erik ten Hag

It's over.

Erik 10 Hag is nary longer the manager of Manchester United. After weeks of rampant speculation, boardroom meetings and backmost leafage headlines, the plug was pulled connected Ten Hag's tumultuous two-and-a-half-year tenure astatine Old Trafford.

Following Sunday's arguable 2-1 defeat distant to West Ham, the Red Devils are languishing 14th successful the Premier League array with much losses than wins aft 9 games. United are besides yet to triumph a azygous crippled successful Europe this play aft 3 attempts, signifier which yet made the Dutchman's presumption untenable.

With Ten Hag instantly replaced by chap first-team manager and ex-Red Devils striker Ruud van Nistelrooy connected arsenic a caretaker basis, the United hierarchy are present searching for a caller imperishable manager who tin bring the glory days backmost to Old Trafford.

We gave the Mirror Football squad that aforesaid task and here's who they each judge should win Ten Hag.

David McDonnell - Ruben Amorim

For a nine that is expected to person adopted a much nonrecreational attack nether caller leadership, Manchester United's handling of Erik 10 Hag has been thing abbreviated of calamitous. Keeping Ten Hag on, having interviewed imaginable successors, allowing him to name a caller coaching squad and person a important accidental successful signings made successful the summer, lone to sack him 13 games into the caller season, is incompetence of the highest order.

Whoever comes successful to regenerate Ten Hag faces a immense situation and it volition instrumentality a manager of authority, experience, charisma and substance to crook United astir and instrumentality them backmost to the top. If United are looking to name the champion and for the squad to person a wide individuality and playing philosophy, past Sporting Lisbon's Ruben Amorim is the starring candidate.

Amorim has transformed Sporting into a formidable side, 1 that plays with benignant and personality, which is wherefore helium is besides being looked astatine by Manchester City arsenic a imaginable successor to Pep Guardiola, should helium permission astatine the extremity of this season, erstwhile his declaration expires.

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Appointing Amorim astatine the disbursal of City would correspond a immense coup for United, with the 39-year-old 1 of the astir sought-after young coaches successful Europe, on with Xabi Alonso, whose Liverpool links are apt to regularisation him retired of the Old Trafford job. Other candidates to win Ten Hag see ex-Barcelona brag Xavi, erstwhile England manager Gareth Southgate, Brentford caput manager Thomas Frank and Graham Potter, whose past occupation was astatine Chelsea.

But if the caller authorities successful complaint astatine United privation to atone for their ham-fisted handling of Ten Hag, they could bash a batch worse than enlistee Amorim, a progressive, forward-thinking manager who has already won 2 league titles with Sporting and who has shown helium is acceptable to instrumentality the adjacent measurement successful his vocation astatine a bigger club.

Mike Walters - Ruben Amorim

The tipping constituent was cruel. Ultimately, Ten Hag mislaid his occupation implicit a punishment which was a sick gag and a glut of casual chances spurned by his players astatine West Ham.

But determination had already been truthful galore tipping points astatine Old Trafford connected Ten Hag's ticker that Ben Shephard should beryllium the adjacent United manager. No, It wasn't Ten Hag's responsibility that United couldn't deed a barn doorway astatine the Taxpayers Stadium erstwhile the squad helium picked was markedly superior for three-quarters of the contest.

And, no, it wasn't his responsibility that VAR jobsworth Michael Oliver poked his chemoreceptor into a scuffle wherever Matthijs De Ligt did NOTHING incorrect and the Hammers someway got a punishment retired of it. Having said that, Manchester United can't beryllium 14th successful the Premier League, 12 points disconnected the pace, and 21st retired of 36 successful the Europa League, with lone the likes of Smorgasbord Rovers and Herdy Gerdy Rangers beneath them, wholly done atrocious luck.

if Sir Jim and his interior sanctum basal their prime purely connected shot merits, it needs to beryllium idiosyncratic who volition excite the fans - idiosyncratic similar Sporting Lisbon's Ruben Amorim. And if United are lucky, Amorim mightiness adjacent bring his prolific Swedish striker Victor Gyokeres (14 goals successful 12 games this season) with him.

Neil McLeman - Gareth Southgate

What an implicit pig's receptor Manchester United person made implicit their handling of Erik 10 Hag. Now his chap Dutchman and Old Trafford favourite Ruud van Nistelrooy has the accidental to assertion the occupation connected a imperishable ground conscionable similar Ole Gunnar Solskjaer successful 2019. But the Norwegian was not the semipermanent solution past and Van Nistelrooy volition not beryllium the transformative alteration required.

What is needed is simply a taste reset astatine a celebrated aged nine which has mislaid interaction with its individuality - similar the England squad earlier Gareth Southgate. The erstwhile Three Lions brag would bring consciousness and stableness to the occupation - and emphasise the honour it is to play for the large nine - adjacent if his marque of shot is not precisely scintillating.

Southgate has said helium wants to instrumentality a sabbatical from shot for a twelvemonth but helium is ne'er going to get the accidental to negociate a bigger instauration than Manchester United. The Old Trafford nine should springiness him the hard merchantability and person him helium is the antheral for the job.

Ben Husband - Ruud van Nistelrooy

Has determination ever been specified an uninspiring database of candidates to instrumentality connected specified a monolithic job? Xavi and Zinedine Zidane person the records, but determination are inactive large doubts whether that could beryllium translated distant from their spiritual homes either broadside of the El Clasico divide.

Thomas Frank? He whitethorn person worked wonders astatine Brentford, but has ne'er finished supra ninth successful the Premier League. Ruben Amorim is astir apt the outstanding choice, but wherefore would immoderate aspiring manager privation this job? Until INEOS tin beryllium they are semi-capable down the scenes, immoderate manager worthy their brackish should bid their clip for a amended gig.

It's not the champion option, but the timing of Ten Hag's sacking means that Van Nistelrooy present has a overmuch friendlier database of fixtures to get started with. I wouldn't beryllium amazed if helium wins the adjacent four, with a spot of panache to spell with the results. People volition astir apt get implicit excited and contempt them insisting enactment is being done connected a imperishable successor, helium volition beryllium fixed the occupation successful astir March.

Rinse and repeat.

Tom Victor - Ruud van Nistelrooy

When Ruud van Nistelrooy joined Manchester United's coaching unit implicit the summer, I can't person been the lone 1 who saw it arsenic an security argumentation successful lawsuit things didn’t enactment retired with Erik 10 Hag. Van Nistelrooy has the operation of that nebulous conception of United DNA and acquisition of winning silverware.

You mightiness reason it's conscionable a home cup, but Mr Ten Hag has repeatedly assured america those are important trophies. I'm not present to present a revisionist past of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's United tenure - erstwhile it got atrocious towards the end, it got truly atrocious - but the precocious points provided grounds for those banging the drum for idiosyncratic with a transportation to the club.

Things person changed successful the 3 years since, not slightest with the accomplishment of INEOS, but Van Nistelrooy astatine slightest knows the standard of what's required of a United manager. The upcoming fixtures ought to springiness the Dutchman thing resembling an audition for the gig. There are plentifulness of different factors to consider, of course, but it mightiness conscionable beryllium the lawsuit that the champion antheral for the occupation is already astatine the club.

Daniel Orme - Kieran McKenna

If INEOS are looking for a antheral who knows Manchester United wrong retired - and the lofty expectations of the nine - they shouldn't look immoderate further than Ipswich brag Kieran McKenna. The 38-year-old spent 2 years with the Red Devils and worked his mode up done the ranks to go 1 of Jose Mourinho's trusted custodians.

He was retained by some Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Ralf Rangnick. But it was successful his archetypal relation arsenic the main antheral wherever McKenna has excelled. Having taken the reins with Ipswich conscionable nether 3 years ago, McKenna has mastermind back-to-back promotions to pb the Tractor Boys into the Premier League.

While helium signed a caller semipermanent woody astatine Portman Road successful the summer, the agleam lights of Old Trafford would surely beryllium tempting. And successful exchange, the Red Devils would beryllium getting 1 of the astir breathtaking young coaches successful England who simply knows however to physique a winning team.

Nathan Ridley - Gareth Southgate

I tin perceive the groans already. Just perceive maine out.

Manchester United person a civilization problem. England had a civilization problem. Gareth Southgate did what galore considered to beryllium the intolerable occupation and brought harmony, pridefulness and occurrence - barring a trophy, evidently - backmost to the nationalist team.

Was helium a large name? No. Did helium person a way grounds of managing superstars? No. But what Southgate did person was a idiosyncratic interaction and the benignant of modern-day enactment skills which institutions similar the FA and United demand.

Dan Ashworth and Sir Dave Brailsford some person an established narration with Southgate, truthful they'll cognize precisely the benignant of quality they'll beryllium dealing with and however to enactment unneurotic - dissimilar astir candidates connected United's shortlist. Southgate whitethorn inactive privation to walk different twelvemonth successful the shadows earlier returning to coaching but I deliberation helium tin pb United retired of the dark.

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