Erik ten Hag mentioned he held “very constructive” talks with Jim Ratcliffe when the under-fire Manchester United boss met the membership’s new minority stakeholder this week.
Ratcliffe’s INEOS group will assume management of United’s soccer operations as soon as the acquisition of a 25 p.c share within the Previous Trafford membership is ratified.
The British billionaire has been in Manchester for a collection of conferences with membership workers, together with Ten Hag, who has been closely criticised throughout a troubled second season in cost.
United crashed out of the Champions League within the group stage, have been eradicated from the League Cup by Newcastle and are languishing 9 factors adrift of the Premier League’s prime 4, in eighth place.
Ten Hag is below intense strain after 14 defeats to this point this season — however the Dutch coach mentioned his first contact with Ratcliffe went effectively.
“It was very constructive, I’ve to say. We had a protracted assembly, for a lot of hours we sat collectively and on many points we’re on the identical web page so it was very constructive,” Ten Hag mentioned on Thursday.
“I believe from either side it was a really constructive assembly and we sit up for working with them.”
United journey to Wigan within the FA Cup third spherical on Monday and a shock defeat to the third-tier aspect would add to the strain on Ten Hag.
Certainly one of many points to plague Ten Hag this time period has been the way forward for Jadon Sancho.
The England ahead has not featured since August after falling out with the Dutchman when he was dropped for a match at Arsenal.
Sancho is claimed to be near rejoining Borussia Dortmund on a mortgage till the top of the season, however Ten Hag wouldn’t be drawn on the experiences.
“I can’t say something about that,” he mentioned. “Now we have to attend and see how issues are going and when we’ve got information in fact we are going to inform you.”
Ten Hag confirmed United have triggered contract extensions for Victor Lindelof, Aaron Wan-Bissaka and Hannibal Mejbri.
The membership are understood to be in discussions with Raphael Varane and Anthony Martial over their futures as an alternative of taking on choices of their present contracts.
“We’re speaking with Rapha Varane, with Anthony Martial, and we triggered the choices on Aaron Wan-Bissaka, Victor Lindelof and Hannibal,” Ten Hag mentioned.
Requested why the 2 gamers’ contract choices had not been triggered, he mentioned: “I believe that’s an inside dialogue between the membership and the gamers.”
AFP