Erik ten Hag addresses Manchester United football structure issue
Erik ten Hag insists he would not have accepted the Manchester United manager's role if the structure at the club was not right.
United have lost eight of their 15 matches this season, are nine points adrift of fourth place in the Premier League table, out of the League Cup and in danger of going out of the Champions League at the group stage.
Pressure is mounting on Ten Hag to arrest United's regression but the club's structure has been widely criticised under the ownership of the Glazer family.
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Richard Arnold replaced Ed Woodward to become chief executive in February 2022 and John Murtough was appointed United's inaugural football director in March 2021.
Murtough has hired Steve Brown as head of recruitment operations and Dominic Jordan as the director of data science, while Matt Hargreaves joined United as their director of football negotiations in the summer.
Although Arnold has empowered the football department, United's structure is expected to change amid impending investment from the Ineos Group, led by Sir Jim Ratcliffe.
Esteemed managers Louis van Gaal and Jose Mourinho failed to meet expectations at United and Ten Hag suggested the managers were not necessarily as blameworthy for the club's failings as it appeared at the time. "It is possible. I am convinced, sometimes you have difficult periods but when we stick together and we are together you come through those difficult periods.
"I wouldn’t work here if I didn’t think it (the structure) wasn’t right."
Ten Hag retains the support of the bulk of matchgoers who have targeted their ire on the absent Glazers, as well as some
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