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Erik ten Hag says a number of gamers are uncertain forward of Saturday’s Group Protect match towards Manchester Metropolis at Wembley.
Ten Hag was talking on the pre-match press convention and defined that Harry Maguire, Victor Lindelof, Luke Shaw and Aaron Wan-Bissaka are all “query marks” for the massive recreation.
“Harry Maguire missed the sport (vs Liverpool), was a precaution however remains to be a query mark for Saturday,” he stated. “So we’ve coaching, we’ve to see whether or not he’s match sufficient or to not be accessible.
“Victor [Lindelof] performed but in addition he’s a query mark and in addition Azza [Aaron Wan-Bissaka] and Luke Shaw are each query marks, we’ve to evaluate them tomorrow (Friday).
“We take into consideration Licha [Lisandro Martinez] to be concerned within the recreation.”
The supervisor was additionally requested about Mason Mount after his glorious performances on the pre-season tour.
“We all know he’s a excessive class participant and simply bringing expertise in,” he stated. “Final season, he had a really dangerous season, a really powerful season for him due to all accidents and now we’re more than happy he had an excellent pre-season and I’m positive from this level on he’ll contribute to the staff if he stays match, it counts for each participant.”
Requested about transfers, Ten Hag replied:
“When we’ve information, we’ll announce it. You’ve seen the market, it’s fairly quiet nonetheless. Now we have performed enterprise, we’ve performed two offers, it’s about timings, the market, the market choices, the suitable second and the suitable issues.”
The subsequent query was whether or not it’s in midfield that he needs to strengthen, to which he responded “I don’t go into particulars, the place we at the moment are in recruitment, what we’re engaged on. We all know what we’re doing, we’re in an excellent place with the squad and simply wait, endurance and in the suitable second we’ll let you know.”
Requested if he must promote gamers earlier than he should purchase extra, he stated “we did already, we purchased already. As I stated, we’ve a squad the place in each place there may be double occupation.”
The boss was then requested about Jadon Sancho’s finest place and the way he’ll make use of him this season.
“Jadon can play throughout the entire frontline, he’s an choice for a couple of place and it relies upon the way you arrange the staff, you may have a look at your personal techniques, opponents that match the very best and Jadon had some skills you need to use in a recreation, techniques and the following recreation,” he stated.
Ten Hag additionally spoke on Saturday’s match, saying: “So, we at all times need to win, additionally in all of the friendlies. It’s about trophy, we’ll put out a staff that may be very aggressive to win this trophy. It’s additionally pre-season, we don’t go into large dangers with gamers, the conventional method in to this recreation.”
Ten Hag has additionally spoken to Dutch media forward of the massive match.
“Joshua Zirkzee isn’t as match as the remainder of the squad. Final Monday was solely his first session with the staff,” he stated (supply Viaplay Netherlands).
Requested if Zirkzee may have minutes towards Metropolis, he replied “sure, we do imagine so. However we’ll base our resolution on the impression he offers us.”
The supervisor was then requested how a lot he’s pushing for switch targets Noussair Mazraoui and Matthijs De Ligt throughout the membership.
“We’d like an enormous squad,” he replied. “The format of European Soccer goes to alter too. We’d like a gaggle of gamers that’s going to cowl all these video games.”
Requested once more concerning the two names, he replied “I can’t deal with particular names. This not a pleasant in direction of these gamers and their membership.”
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