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Manchester United defender Matthijs de Ligt has revealed how supervisor Erik ten Hag is coping with the prospect of presumably being relieved of his duties within the coming days or perhaps weeks.
United are at the moment in thirteenth place within the Premier League after their devastating 0-3 loss by the hands of Tottenham Hotspur final weekend.
The Crimson Devils had been principally second-best throughout the match and had been rightly overwhelmed in entrance of their residence assist. That consequence has led to renewed hypothesis over Ten Hag’s future at United.
A report coated by The Peoples Individual relayed that whereas membership bosses haven’t any quick need to sack the Dutch coach, they won’t hesitate to completely half methods with him if outcomes don’t drastically enhance.
Laurie Whitwell of The Athletic lately urged that Ten Hag has the upcoming matches vs. Porto and Aston Villa within the Europa League and Premier League respectively to avoid wasting his job.
If he loses each, there’s a sturdy likelihood he might be let go throughout the October worldwide break.
Talking to Viaplay (through Metro), De Ligt was requested whether or not he feels the stress is attending to Ten Hag.
The previous Bayern Munich centre-back replied, “No, not likely. He stays calm and retains doing the identical issues. He retains motivating the gamers.”
De Ligt is among the a number of gamers at United, who Ten Hag efficiently labored with at Ajax.
In his sit-down, De Ligt appeared to confess that Ten Hag is struggling to acclimatise to the upper commonplace of opposition in England’s high flight.
On whether or not Ten Hag is identical in Manchester as he was in Amsterdam, the 25-year-old remarked, “Sure, for probably the most half.”
“However the resilience within the Eredivisie could be very completely different than right here within the Premier League.”
“Each membership right here has a supervisor at a really excessive tactical degree, and you’ve got to have the ability to reply to that.”
Porto vs. United kicks off on Thursday at 20:00 BST.
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