Man United sack plan revealed – Erik ten Hag is ‘dead man walking’
Erik ten Hag has been a “dead man walking” at Manchester United since Sir Jim Ratcliffe arrived at the club.
Speaking on the latest edition of Football Insider’s Inside Track podcast, the former England and Tottenham goalkeeper Paul Robinson suggested the new Old Trafford chief is going to want to bring his own people into the club and Ten Hag is not his man.
Football Insider revealed on 26 April that the Dutchman is under “massive pressure” and Man United chiefs are doing their due diligence behind the scenes over who could be their next manager.
The Red Devils can no longer mathematically finish in the Champions League spots as they sit 13 points behind Aston Villa with just four games left to play this season.
Erik ten Hag likely to be sacked as Man United manager
Robinson believes Ten Hag has done nothing to show the new investors he should remain in position at Old Trafford beyond this campaign.
“I think he’s a dead man walking, 100 per cent” he told the Inside Track podcast.
“I’ve said ever since Sir Jim Ratcliffe and Sir David Brailsford came in with the whole restructuring that he’s not their man.
“They are restructuring, they will bring their own people in and their own structure around the football team. They are putting their own foundations in and they are going to want their own man to manage it.
“Ten Hag’s done nothing this season that would jump out and you would say ‘Manchester United have got a great identity, we know exactly how they play, they’ve had a fantastic season and progressed from last year’ because they haven’t.
“They have regressed from last year, where they finished in the Champions League places. The Champions League campaign this season was an absolute disaster, no disrespect to the teams that were in that group at the start of the season.
“They have struggled at home, losing to the likes of Bournemouth and they only just got past Sheffield United. It’s just not a Manchester United team.
“We’re all guilty of comparing it to Sir Alex Ferguson’s era because that’s our generation and we do that. Every manager since Sir Alex Ferguson has never put Manchester United onto the same pedestal that he had.
“They are trying to do that, but they are doing it from the background and they are doing it properly.
“I just don’t think Ten Hag is going to be there to oversee the team because he’s done nothing this season to suggest that Sir Jim Ratcliffe would look at him and say ‘I’ve been delighted with the style of football played’.
“Sir Jim Ratcliffe went from running the London Marathon to Wembley to watch his team go from 3-0 up to almost just getting past Coventry on penalties.
“That’s not the type of team he’s going to want to watch.”
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