Erik ten Hag has a bank loan after his first season at Old Trafford, but it is dwindling. Photo: Matthew Peters/Getty Images < p>Erik ten Hag faces trial as Manchester United manager following the Ineos takeover. He is effectively interim manager until the end of the season.
Unless there is a significant improvement in results and performances, he will have to leave.
This is a natural consequence of significant upheaval in the boardroom. Whenever new investment comes into an elite football club, every department should be examined, especially those that are malfunctioning.
Ten Hag never lost the support of United fans on matchday, nor those who expressed the same sympathy as Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, due to the working environment in the Glazer family.
This support is never lost. unconditionally, however. This also gives a sense of realism.
If you're Sir Jim Ratcliffe and you're promising to invest billions of pounds into a club, one of your top priorities is determining whether you have a coach who represents the dynamism you want to associate with your business.
Ratcliffe will be present. my first game for United as a major shareholder this weekend, asking myself: could this manager be the symbol of the club I want to build?
My long-held belief is that a football team is an extension of the manager's personality. Ten Hag's lack of charisma in press conferences wouldn't have been a problem if his team had played with character, but instead of being exciting and adventurous, United were predictable and, at worst, boring.
They have scored just 22 league goals so far, one less than Luton Town. Only Burnley and Sheffield United have a worse goalscoring record.
This makes Tottenham Hotspur a particularly intriguing opponent for Ratcliffe's first spell at Old Trafford due to his influence on the board. Ange Postecoglou's influence has become the stick to beat Ten Hag because of the contrast on and off the pitch: the Spurs manager talks to the media about a great game, while his team plays in a more entertaining style than his immediate team predecessors.
If Spurs win this weekend, the glaring differences between Postecoglou and Ten Hag will continue to be unfavorable for the United manager.
Ratcliffe will want the fans to be on the edge of their seats when the coach speaks. and team play.
No one will convince me that Ratcliffe bought into United thinking Ten Hag had already proven himself to be the right man for the job in the long term. He is far from untouchable.
I can only echo what I think about clubs of the caliber of United, Arsenal and Liverpool: they will never be as far away from returning to the top as they seem.
With their history, resources and influence, they just need the right manager at the right time and two or three top-class players to turn things around. They lift everyone up.
As the last 10 years at Old Trafford have shown, finding such transformative individuals is easier said than done.
But by applying this simple formula, Ratcliffe won't need to while some are predicting United will return to where they used to be. I suspect that when it does, it will be a revolution, dating back to Ineos' first permanent appointment as manager.
Ten Hag will have to fight throughout his career to ensure that the search for a new manager does not move forward March and April.
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