'Fairytales and lies' - Ten Hag condemns job reports

Manchester United manager Erik 10 Hag has accused the media of making up "fairytales and lies" astir his future.

Ten Hag went into the planetary interruption nether immense unit aft a tally of 5 games without a win, which included the embarrassing 3-0 location decision by Tottenham.

Former England midfielder Jamie Redknapp told Sky Sports aft that Spurs nonaccomplishment that helium felt Ten Hag was "out of his depth".

With United 14th successful the Premier League, galore felt the 54-year-old would beryllium dismissed during the planetary break, peculiarly arsenic members of the Glazer household attended a pre-planned United committee gathering with co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe and different members of the club's hierarchy successful London past week.

However, Ten Hag remains successful station and says journalists person deliberately ignored his post-match comments aft the goalless gully astatine Aston Villa connected 6 October, erstwhile helium said "we are connected 1 page" astir the backing helium was receiving astatine Old Trafford.

"The sound is lone coming from immoderate of you, creating stories and fairytales and bringing lies," helium said.

"I cognize we are connected 1 leafage astatine this club. I said this earlier the break. I told respective journalists. Probably the journalists didn't judge maine due to the fact that I saw the reports. But internally, it is quiet."

It is 5 years since United went six games without a triumph successful each competitions.

To debar that, they request to bushed a Brentford broadside managed by Thomas Frank, who was 1 of the men spoken to astir the manager's occupation past outpouring erstwhile Ratcliffe was inactive deciding whether to support Ten Hag.

Brentford person not won astatine Old Trafford since 1937 - a tally of six league and cupful visits - though past play they led going into stoppage time, erstwhile Scott McTominay scored doubly to crook the lucifer connected its head.

"Of course, we are unhappy with the presumption wherever we are," said Ten Hag. "The ranking is not lying and it is not bully enough.

"But we are quiescent and composed. We instrumentality to the program and are convinced it volition beryllium a success."