Erik ten Hag insists he isn’t anxious about being sacked after Manchester United’s depressing begin to the season.
United produced a dismal first-half efficiency in Sunday’s 3-0 house defeat to Tottenham to go away them on seven factors after six Premier League video games.
Bruno Fernandes was despatched off simply earlier than the break, however the staff’s worst spell arguably got here after they had 11 gamers on the pitch.
Gary Neville stated the primary half was the worst he had seen United underneath the present supervisor in his Sky Sports activities podcast.
Nevertheless, Ten Hag, into his third season on the membership, is assured that United’s decision-makers will give him time.
Requested about his future, Ten Hag stated: “No, I’m not occupied with this. All of us made collectively this determination to remain collectively, as an possession, a management group in the summertime, additionally we made the choice from a transparent evaluation what we’ve got to enhance and the way we wish to assemble a squad.
“However we knew it’ll take a while, how the window went, some gamers late in like Ugarte. Additionally, we’ve got to make some enchancment in organisation, some accidents, we’d like a while.
“We’re all on one web page or in a single boat collectively, the possession, the employees and the gamers as effectively. I haven’t got that concern.”
Neville: Man Utd have been ‘completely disgusting’
Neville branded Manchester United’s efficiency towards Tottenham as “completely disgusting”.
“The primary half was as unhealthy because it will get,” stated Neville throughout Sky Sports activities’ commentary of the sport.
“This can be a stunning day, a sobering day. This can be a actually unhealthy day for Ten Hag.”
Whereas Fernandes was unlucky to be proven a straight pink, the midfielder slipping as he went to deal with James Maddison, his dismissal drew no sympathy from Neville.
“That sums up Manchester United within the first half. They’ve been an absolute shame.
“It is one of many worst performances I’ve seen underneath Ten Hag. And that’s saying one thing. It’s actually unhealthy.”
After six video games this time period, United are simply twelfth within the league desk with lower than half the factors as leaders Liverpool.
Neville later added: “Right this moment has shocked me how low they’ve gone. It was a very unhealthy one.
“I do know that David Moyes had some unhealthy ones within the early days, so has Ole [Gunnar Solskjaer] alongside the way in which, Louis van Gaal, Jose Mourinho and Ralf Rangnick, however that felt like a kind of days immediately the place they sank actually low.”
Redknapp: Ten Hag has had sufficient time
Jamie Redknapp says Ten Hag has “had sufficient time” and doesn’t suppose he’s “the person to take it ahead.
“I am seeing performances for the time being which are the varieties that get a supervisor sacked,” Redknapp stated.
“I do really feel sorry for the supervisor. He seems out of his depth, he seems misplaced.
“When your membership is actively on the lookout for one other supervisor [in the summer] to return in and take your home, you might be in a massively untenable place.
“I simply do not see how he can preserve his job with these performances. I do not see how he can flip it round.
“I feel he is had sufficient time. I do know they’ve gained two trophies, however I do not see how he is the person to take it ahead.
“However I additionally do not see who’s as a result of it is such a troublesome job proper now.”