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Manchester United supervisor Eric ten Hag insists he’ll nonetheless be on the high subsequent season regardless of rising stress on him.
United suffered their twelfth defeat of the Premier League season in heartbreaking vogue by the hands of Chelsea on Thursday night time.
The Purple Devils led 3–2 after 99 minutes and 17 seconds, earlier than conceding two Cole Palmer objectives within the a centesimal and a hundred and first minutes. This was the newest ever match in a Premier League match by which a crew led and misplaced the match.
Much more worrying for United is that it was the second time in lower than per week the membership have misplaced the lead in further time, following a 1-1 draw towards Brentford on the GTech Neighborhood Stadium final weekend.
It was United's seventeenth defeat of the season in all competitions, their greatest defeat because the 1989/90 marketing campaign.
It has been extensively prompt that United's new co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe could also be contemplating a managerial change as he and his colleagues have been lower than impressed with Ten Hag's work this time period.
Ratcliffe was current at Stamford Bridge in particular person and watched painfully as his beloved crew surrendered in extraordinary vogue.
United have been linked with potential Ten Hag replacements corresponding to Gareth Southgate, Julian Nagelsmann, Zinedine Zidane, Ruben Amorim, Roberto De Zerbi, Thomas Frank, Graham Potter and Carlo Ancelotti.
Amidst all this, Ten Hag believes he will probably be given extra time by the highest brass to show the scenario round and take the membership on the best path.
He spoke to Sky Sports activities forward of his crew's conflict vs Liverpool on Sunday and was requested if he thought he would nonetheless be within the Previous Trafford dugout for the 2024/25 marketing campaign.
The 54-year-old replied, “I’ve little question. I'm simply targeted on my work, targeted on this course of, on this challenge. I like dwelling right here, I'm having fun with it. It is a problem for me.”
“It received't all the time go the best approach, it received't all the time have the outcomes we needed however I'm assured that we're heading in the right direction and we'll get to the place we wish to be,” he stated.
Ten Hag will undoubtedly be hoping for a giant efficiency and a giant consequence towards the Merseysiders on Sunday to silence a few of his critics.
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