‘On trial’: Man Utd boss has one month to save his job as worst-ever EPL finish looms
Under-fire Manchester United manager Erik Ten Hag has one month to save his job in the wake of the team’s humiliating collapse in the FA Cup semi-final on the weekend.
United scraped past minnows Coventry on penalties after letting a 3-0 lead slip in embarrassing fashion and seeing an extra-time Coventry goal fortuitously ruled out for off-side.
The Red Devils are currently seventh in the Premier League and face the prospect of missing out on qualification for the Champions League or Europa League, while Ten Hag has also fallen out with multiple players this season, from Jadon Sancho to Marcus Rashford and Alejandro Garnacho.
United are just two points ahead of West Ham and three ahead of Chelsea – who have a game in hand.
Finishing lower than their current seventh is a very real possibility, something they haven’t done since 1989-90 before the Premier League was founded.
No wonder Ten Hag’s job is well and truly on the line.
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New minority club owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe was in attendance at Wembley alongside majority owner Avram Glazer, as was the club’s newly-signed technical director Jason Wilcox.
Ratcliffe has already made major changes to the United hierarchy as he seeks to reshape the club into the formidable force it once was – and deliver a first title to Old Trafford since Sir Alex Ferguson in 2012-13.
Wilcox, poached from Southampton but highly respected for his previous work as Manchester City’s Academy director, is in charge of creating a unified style of play at United that will stretch from the first team down through the Academy.
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