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Last Updated: December 16, 2023, 00:00 IST
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There’s hypothesis supervisor Erik ten Hag is on the chopping block as Manchester United heads to English Premier League chief Liverpool on Sunday.
MANCHESTER, England: There’s hypothesis supervisor Erik ten Hag is on the chopping block as Manchester United heads to English Premier League chief Liverpool on Sunday.
United’s worsening kind — together with elimination from the Champions League this week — has began a rumor that Ten Hag might be changed by former Chelsea supervisor Graham Potter.
That’s hardly the very best preparation for a visit to Anfield, the place United suffered a file 7-0 rout in March and hasn’t gained a league match in virtually eight years. Ten Hag, in cost since mid-2022, insists speak about his future just isn’t a distraction.
“I’m not concerned about that. I want to win, I want to win with my team,” he stated on Friday. “I want to progress with my team in the right direction . . . we are here in a project.”
Doubts have grown about Ten Hag’s place as United’s season has suffered setbacks.
The proposed funding from British billionaire Jim Ratcliffe has led to ideas he may make adjustments as soon as he good points a 25% stake within the membership. Despite that, Ten Hag believes he has the backing of United.
“I feel that and they tell (me) that so that’s fine. That’s OK, but I’m focusing on the process, I’m focusing on making this team play better, I’m focusing on making the individuals better. That’s my concern. That’s all I’m doing, focusing on the right thing and that is the team.”
Jose Mourinho was fired because the United supervisor after struggling a defeat at Anfield at the moment in 2018.
Talk of United being in disaster, nonetheless, makes Liverpool supervisor Jurgen Klopp uncomfortable.
“I never like when the headlines about United are not great before we play because it’s like, ‘OK, then it is the game where they can put everything right,’” Klopp stated on Friday.
“I don’t follow United closely enough to know exactly what the problem is there, but I saw Erik ten Hag was manager of the month last month and saw they were the team in form in the last month so how can it be all wrong? I just don’t understand it.”
Liverpool’s largest residence crowd in 50 years might be readily available, with extra of the brand new Anfield Road Stand opening as much as enable a crowd of greater than 57,000. When the stand is lastly totally open subsequent yr, Anfield will maintain 61,000.
The 7-0 rout was United’s worst within the rivalry and worst aggressive defeat since 1931. Klopp described it as a “freak result that happens once in a lifetime.”
Ten Hag hopes there isn’t a repeat. He’s nonetheless with out suspended captain Bruno Fernandes, Harry Maguire is out injured, however Luke Shaw and Marcus Rashford ought to be obtainable.
“We take that (7-0) in our memory, but you have to also take the benefit from it and learn from it and Sunday we can prove that,” he stated. “It was a bad experience, but it’s not similar — you start again.
“We will not ignore it, but we go there and we will be confident, and I know my players, to go there and be confident from the start to the end. We have to fight there, we have challenge there. We go to win there.”
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