Erik ten Hag fired as Manchester United fireplace supervisor after troubled begin to season

File photograph of Manchester supervisor Erik ten Hag.
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Manchester United fired Erik ten Hag on Monday (October 28, 2024) after a troubled begin to the season left the 20-time English champions in 14th place within the Premier League and the membership’s new management unimpressed with the tempo of change below the Dutchman.

Ten Hag, who was employed in 2022, paid the worth for main United to simply three wins in 9 league video games within the opening months of the marketing campaign. There have been 4 defeats, the 2-1 loss at West Ham on Sunday being his final recreation in cost.

United completed in eighth place final season, its lowest within the Premier League period, and seems to have little hope of difficult for the title this marketing campaign. It already leaves the storied group at risk of lacking out on qualification for the profitable Champions League as soon as once more.

“We’re grateful to Erik for every little thing he has executed throughout his time with us and need him nicely for the longer term,” mentioned United, which added that Ruud van Nistelrooy, one among Ten Hag’s assistants, could be taking up as interim head coach whereas a everlasting head coach is recruited.

Ten Hag joined from Ajax and was tasked with the accountability of bringing the great instances again to a membership that has been in decline since former supervisor Alex Ferguson retired in 2013. Regardless of successful the League Cup and the FA Cup in Ten Hag’s first seasons at Previous Trafford, United was displaying no signal of enhancing on its worst league marketing campaign in 34 years.

Ten Hag solely held onto his job following an sudden victory over fierce rival Manchester Metropolis within the FA Cup closing in Might and an in depth end-of-year overview by United. He was then handed a one-year extension to his contract to 2026.

His departure comes amid a interval of main change at United below new minority proprietor Jim Ratcliffe.

The British billionaire has taken over management of United’s soccer operations, with a brand new CEO, sporting director and technical director all put in in current months.

Ten Hag was United’s fifth everlasting supervisor since Ferguson’s departure, following David Moyes, Louis van Gaal, Jose Mourinho and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.

United’s subsequent recreation is at dwelling to Leicester within the English League Cup on Wednesday. (AP) UNG 7/21/2024