ERIK TEN HAG RETAINS the full backing of Manchester United despite a shocking run of five defeats in seven games.
The Dutchman is the fifth permanent boss in ten years since Sir Alex Ferguson retired, to go with two caretakers and one interim manager.
But there is no desire amongst the owning Glazer family or Chief Executive Richard Arnold to make any changes despite the sudden downturn in performances and results.
Ten Hag has been backed to the tune of £400million for new players and enjoyed a fine first season.
The club reached two domestic Cup finals winning it’s first trophy in six years with the Carabao Cup victory over Newcastle at Wembley.
He also guided the Red Devils into third position in the league to secure their position back in the Champions League.
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But they have lost their opening two games in that competition away to Bayern Munich and at home to Galatasaray on Tuesday.
Add that to the four defeats in seven in the league that have left them in tenth place already seven points off the top four.
There have been mitigating circumstances with injuries and the current issue with Jadon Sancho who remains exiled from the first team.
Recently Ten Hag had to give Antony time off to fight allegations of assault.
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The fans are sticking with him although there have been the first murmurings of doubt.
Top pundit and United legend Gary Neville has been a long term critic of the owning Glazer family and says he has sympathy for Ten Hag.
Neville told TalkSport: “I feel very sorry for the manager, I know a lot of people will say he’s got to do a lot better, and that’s fine, he’s the Manchester United manager, but there are a lot of big problems at the club that managers have found over the last ten years.
“I think until those problems are solved we’ll still continue to see underperforming teams, underperforming players, it’s become a graveyard for coaches and players – it’s not too strong a term.”
Tuesday’s defeat had fans pining for David de Gea with goalkeeper Andre Onana producing another horror show.
De Gea posted a selfie after the game on Instagram story with the caption “love y’all”.
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
