Will Ten Hag be out of class? Even if you want to escape, you will have to face this topic in the end, and I saw a column in TA analysing the various possibilities of Ten Hag's dismissal. In the eyes of many fans, Ten Hag's departure is a foregone conclusion, but this column feels that Ten Hag will still not leave for three reasons.
First of all, Manchester United's acquisition is to help Knees Hag, the acquisition of Ratcliffe, Britain's richest man, which will create a power vacuum within Manchester United for a certain period of time. Ratcliffe is said to have made a condition for his acquisition of Manchester United's stake in Manchester United, which is why United CEO Trent Alexander-Arnold announced his departure.
Ten Hag is the current Manchester United sporting director Mutaugh brought in Trent Alexander-Arnold's board, and it stands to reason that Ratcliffe should get them all out. But not necessarily! Ratcliffe's purchase of Manchester United's stake, from the CEO handover to Manchester United's sporting director, will take time.
Neither Glazer nor Ratcliffe will coach at this juncture, and even if Ratcliffe no longer likes Ten Hag, he needs Ten Hag to stabilize the situation in the short term. And Ten Hag's superiors interviewed him in the first place, Mutaf and Fletcher, who are now in a precarious position, even if they want to kill Ten Hag at this time.
They don't have that authority right now, and Ten Hag is currently the safest of the group. Secondly, the cost of Manchester United firing Ten Hag is too high, Manchester United is a listed company, the financial reports are public, the current club's cash reserves are about 76 million pounds, and the credit line is 40 million, and it will cost more than 15 million pounds in compensation to fire Ten Hag, which does not include his coaching team.
When Jose Mourinho left Manchester United five years ago, the club paid their team close to £20 million in compensation. In addition, Ten Hag has to find a new coach when he leaves, and the new coach doesn't talk about salary? Isn't there a requirement for a new coach to buy a person? Don't you buy your own lineage? Manchester United do not have any excess cash reserves at the moment, and do not ignore the constraints of Europe's fiscal fair play policy.
Manchester United's introduction of Ratcliffe will also be able to bring in a fund to get a liquid cash. However, the process is not so fast, and at present, Ratcliffe and Glazer's team are mainly operating in tax avoidance, and I heard that they have hired the most powerful team of lawyers, which can save hundreds of millions of pounds.
You are Glazer and you will not rush through the process, Manchester United's results in front of these bigwigs, but in front of these bigwigs, are not so important, is this a sadness? Another reason is that Ten Hag did not lose control in the dressing room, and after Manchester United's 3-0 defeat to Newcastle this season, morale was once the most popular for many players to lack confidence in Ten Hag's tactics and the direction in which the team was built.
However, Manchester United's dressing room is not in the best situation, in fact, thanks to Ten Hag's political maneuvers. For example, he gave the position of captain of B Fee, co-opted a lot of centrists and then reused McTominay and Maguire, so that many old players of Manchester United did not have a monolith to rebel against him.
Didn't it say before that Anthony Martial's contract expires this season? Ten Hag is considering a contract extension with Martial for another six years, so there is no need for Martial to make trouble. For Manchester United's DNA-based academy players, Maynoo, Mebri and Garnacho have all been reused lately.
Mason Mount was brought in by Ten Hag, Luke Shaw and Ten Hag didn't fall out, and a handful of players like Marcus Rashford and Jadon Sancho who have fallen out of favour lately, they didn't get in the thick of things. There was no collective rebellion between the academy and the British homegrowers, and Ten Hag was able to hold on to the situation as a whole. But is Ten Hag responsible for United's current results?
I've always said that he must be responsible, and that after Ratcliffe comes to power and stabilizes the table, he will definitely settle the score. On the one hand, the team has spent 400 million euros on reinforcements in the past two years, but it has not worked. Secondly, Ten Hag's exit from the Champions League this time has caused a lot of losses to the team, and he has lost more than 10 million euros in bonuses for qualifying.
Combined with at least two games in the next round, Manchester United broadcasts and matchday revenues, the entire total is expected to be at least more than 30 million euros less. Ten Hag must qualify for next season's Champions League to help the team stop him in order to salvage the situation.
Otherwise, for example, if there is no Champions League in a row, then the sponsorship will be reduced, and the team's reinforcements may be limited and forced to ** players, Manchester United's new CEO and management will definitely not let Ten Hag continue to build.
I think Ratcliffe himself also bought a Ligue 1 team, and he should know better than anyone else if he has run it himself, how a modern football club should be run, at least he knows better than Glazer. So this account will definitely be reviewed internally after the end of the season, and Ten Hag should still have a chance in the short term, but there are not two black swan scenarios here.
The first is Manchester United's match against Liverpool and Manchester City, will there be ** cause the fury of the fans, and then the club may be forced to take measures because of the ** crisis, and the other is that Ten Hag should not lose control in the dressing room, which is the final bottom line of Manchester United management.
The weekend's double red meeting will be the focus of everyone's attention, the last time we lost seven goals at Manchester United, before Mourinho was also directly knocked down by Liverpool, will Knees Hag follow in his footsteps? All I can say is wait and see!