Therath Online
May 9, 2024 at 05:55 am
Manchester United certainly won't survive this, and have already begun negotiations with a new manager to replace Erik Ten Hag, hoping to reach an outcome soon.
On 9 May 2024, Foot Mercato, a popular media outlet covering the player market and team transfer news, reported that Manchester United, the leading team in the English Premier League, had opened talks with Gareth Southgate to appoint him as the team's manager. Someone new has replaced Erik ten Hag.
Sources say Manchester United have made Southgate their main target to replace Ten Hag after a disappointing performance, as they suffered a crushing 4-0 defeat to Crystal Palace in their last Premier League match. They dropped to eighth place in the points table, and there is a chance of missing out on playing in every European Cup next season.
It has also been revealed that initial talks have gone well, with Manchester United hoping to reach an agreement in the coming weeks. But we must wait until Southgate completes his mission as coach of the England national team in the 2024 European Championship in Germany first.
Not only that, Manchester United must pay a certain amount of compensation to the English Football Association, because Southgate still has a contract with the England national team until the end of 2024, but if an agreement can be reached. Ready to move forward with the issue of removing Tin Hac from his position.
Southgate has a good relationship with Dan Ashworth, the new Manchester United sporting director, who brought him in from Newcastle United, where he was the FA's Director of Development Excellence for 6 years.
Southgate achieved good results with the England national team. He reached the finals of the UEFA Euro 2020, the semi-finals of the 2018 World Cup, reached the quarter-finals of the 2022 World Cup and finished third in the UEFA Nations League 2018-19, but he has not coached the club since 2009. After parting ways with Middlesbrough
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