Ten Hag has Man Utd backing despite Liverpool loss

Manchester United manager Erik 10 Hag has the backing of elder Old Trafford figures to present the sustained occurrence the nine craves.

After surviving an eighth-placed decorativeness past play - United's worst since 1990 - acknowledgment to the FA Cup last triumph against Manchester City, the Dutchman is nether unit again aft Sunday's 3-0 location decision by Liverpool.

The effect dropped United to 14th successful the Premier League, with 3 points from their opening 3 games.

If they suffer astatine Southampton aft the planetary interruption connected 14 September, it volition correspond their worst commencement since 1986-87, erstwhile they picked up 1 constituent from their archetypal 4 games. Within 2 months, Ron Atkinson was sacked and replaced by Sir Alex Ferguson.

For present astatine least, Ten Hag has the enactment of the caller shot operation enactment successful spot by co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe.

Speaking to reporters earlier the Liverpool game, some main enforcement Omar Berrada and sporting manager Dan Ashworth confirmed that though neither was progressive successful the post-season reappraisal that determined Ten Hag would support his job, adjacent successful the lawsuit of a dense decision to Liverpool - which turned into world - the Dutchman inactive had their backing.

"It was a determination taken anterior to some of our arrivals, but we are precise blessed with it," said Berrada.

"Erik has our afloat backing. We deliberation helium is the close manager for us.

"We person worked precise intimately unneurotic successful this transportation model and we are going to proceed moving precise intimately with him to assistance get the champion results retired of the team."

Although Brighton sacked Chris Hughton arsenic manager 3 months aft Ashworth began enactment arsenic the Seagulls method manager successful 2019, Eddie Howe remained arsenic Newcastle manager passim the 53-year-old's 19 months astatine St James' Park. Ashworth said it was not antithetic for a sporting manager to nexus up with a manager already successful place.

"Very seldom bash you spell into a occupation arsenic a sporting manager and determination is nary manager successful place," helium added.

"All I tin bash is reiterate that I've truly enjoyed moving with Erik for the past 8 weeks.

"My occupation is to enactment him successful each mode I imaginable can, whether that's operationally, with recruitment, medical, psychology, [and] the grooming crushed travel to let him to afloat absorption connected the grooming transportation and lucifer tactical plan, to present occurrence for Manchester United."

Confirmed successful his relation connected 1 July aft spending an extended play of clip connected gardening permission aft telling Newcastle helium wanted to quit, Ashworth's attraction during his aboriginal weeks astatine United was solely focused connected the transportation window.

He estimates 32 deals were done, including signings, income and caller contracts, including 1 for skipper Bruno Fernandes, which helium said was "a important portion of the transportation strategy".

One of the astir high-profile exits was not confirmed until agelong aft the transportation model closed.

United are inactive paying a tiny information of England guardant Jadon Sancho's salary pursuing his determination to Chelsea, but with the woody containing an work to marque the power imperishable successful 12 months, Ashworth feels it was the champion result for some parties.

"We are not kicking players retired of the club, but erstwhile they person a penchant to determination and it is close for them and us, you person to research it, whether it's Jadon, Scott [McTominay] oregon Aaron [Wan-Bissaka].

"We've got 4 truly bully wide players, truthful we felt we had capable extent successful that peculiar presumption to screen it, which enabled is to marque the decision."

In an extended chat, Ashworth and Berrada besides spoke astir a fig of different transfer-related issues.

Are you assured successful the squad now?

Dan Ashworth: "I've astir apt done 25 windows now. I don't deliberation there’s ever been 1 wherever we've gone, 'it's gone perfectly perfectly, we've done each azygous successful and each azygous out'. But successful the main, with the people positions we wanted to strengthen, the players we've brought successful and the extent and options Erik has erstwhile everybody is afloat acceptable that Erik has, I'm pleased yes."

How agelong volition it instrumentality for you to beryllium consistently successful?

Omar Berrada: "It's astir intolerable to enactment a timescale to that question. When you look astatine the teams who person been palmy consistently for galore years it's due to the fact that they person the close coach, person signed the close players and person the close structure. You request to instrumentality bully decisions consistently for galore years to get into a presumption wherever you are a financially sustainable nine that is competing to triumph each azygous competition. That is wherever we privation to be. We don't privation to conscionable triumph 1 Premier League and beryllium satisfied. We privation to make a squad that is susceptible of competing for the Champions League, for the Premier League and for the home cups connected a accordant basis. To physique that, we request to beryllium doing much of what we person done successful this window. Dan and the squad did a fantastic occupation successful the negotiations process. If you marque a mistake and you overspend oregon get a subordinate who tin outgo you excessively much, it tin acceptable you back. Which is wherefore you request to beryllium capable to instrumentality those decisions and marque the close ones consistently implicit clip to beryllium successful a presumption to triumph consistently. There volition beryllium immoderate mistakes that we made, it's mean determination are definite factors we can't control. But each of the controllables, we are going to enactment our champion ft guardant to get it right."

Have you adopted a antithetic attack to selling players?

Omar Berrada: "The process for selling is precise akin to the process for buying. You person a framework, you cognize what you are trying to execute and it has to marque consciousness for the nine and the player. If you enactment wrong those parameters and you are decisive, past mostly you get it right. It is existent we person been much unfastened to structuring the contracts successful a mode that tin present worth for america successful the short-term, but besides successful the future, introducing higher sell-ons and much realistic contingents. We person done that with practically each of the players who person gone out. We person besides tried to enactment successful spot definite policies to support america successful the future. So we person the quality to bargain backmost a player, Willy Kambwala for instance, if helium does truly well."

Dan Ashworth: "Sometimes you person to beryllium rather brave and marque decisions that possibly you don't privation to make. You can't person a bloated squad, and you're besides dealing with players that yet privation to play football. The schedule, particularly with the caller Europa League format, is beauteous punishing. So we privation to marque definite we've got capable extent portion keeping the players motivated, and with the thought that they've got a accidental of playing. If you tally with excessively large a squad, it tin origin problems. The rules and regulations mean you person to churn. You person to make wealth to beryllium capable to walk that wealth backmost retired arsenic well. So the fig of one-club players is astir apt changing. That's an unintended effect of the rules and regulations."