Ian Wright shared his verdict on Erik ten Hag and explained why he’d ‘ditch’ the Manchester United manager after just one full season in the dugout.
The Dutchman oversaw a relatively successful first term of his tenure with all things considered, clinching a top-four spot in the closing stages of the campaign, ending a six-year trophy drought by winning the Carabao Cup, and reaching the FA Cup final.
This season, however, things have taken a turn for the worst; United are out of the League Cup and could exit the Champions League at the group stage next week after claiming just four points from five matches.
They’ve sustained 10 defeats in total thus far – the earliest that the club have reached double digits of losses since the 1973/74 campaign, which saw them ultimately relegated.
In the Premier League, United sit sixth-placed and are just three points off of rivals Manchester City in fourth.
Wright talks Ten Hag
While playing a game of ‘keep or ditch’ in the latest instalment of the Stick to Football podcast, Gary Neville, Roy Keane and Jamie Carragher all voted in favour of sticking with Ten Hag.
Wright wasn’t so sure though, telling the group: “Ditch, I’d get rid of him, I’d move him on. I think when I look at the way Man United are playing…you only have to look at Ange [Postecoglou] and the way he’s changed things so quickly and a pattern of play, how they want to do certain things and I still haven’t seen that with United up to this point.
“So, I’m thinking with everything that’s gone on, you want to see in 18 months, we should be seeing a certain way that Man United are playing. They should be controlling games and winning games now. So I’d probably get rid.”
