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Manchester United legend, Gary Neville, has claimed that his former facet’s season and Erik ten Hag’s future, relies on one issue.
The Pink Devils have suffered a tumultuous season the place they discover themselves in seventh place within the league and probably with no European soccer for the approaching season.
Ten Hag’s males additionally suffered the embarrassment of ending final in a Champions League group containing Copenhagen and Galatasaray.
After such a promising debut season, Ten Hag’s choice to change to “chaos ball”, a system based mostly on countless transitions, has hardly borne fruit.
Consequently, many pundits and followers are of the idea that the Dutchman’s days are numbered and even an FA Cup win wouldn’t save his job, very similar to Louis van Gaal, who was sacked the day after successful the cup in 2016.
Nonetheless, Neville is of a unique opinion.
This coming Sunday, United tackle Coventry Metropolis at Wembley, seeking to make their second consecutive FA Cup ultimate.
Talking on the Gary Neville podcast the pundit asserted, “they need to win subsequent weekend. The season could be utterly over in the event that they didn’t”.
“Erik ten Hag, I feel, has received to take a look at this season now as being a season whereby he may end his first two seasons at Manchester United with two trophies within the bag, successful one in every season, and clearly he has nonetheless received an opportunity of that. That ought to by no means be sniffed at as a result of in years passed by, you at all times stated in case you gained a trophy a season you had been okay”.
Nonetheless, the commentator did admit that there was no hope for the league marketing campaign.
“I don’t assume there may be something left to say about among the league performances that we’re witnessing and among the issues that we’re watching. The tweets, the ‘likes’ and the physique language… all that stuff, now we have stated it so many occasions earlier than. There isn’t any level going over that once more”.
“What we will say is that Ten Hag’s future is basically depending on the FA Cup, as a result of the efficiency ranges within the league have gone. They’re like this and they aren’t going to vary now”.
The Pink Devils will hope that despite solely successful considered one of their final seven video games, the gamers will have the ability to raise themselves for the reward of an FA Cup ultimate versus Manchester Metropolis or Chelsea.
Lose, and Ten Hag might be fortunate to see out the season as supervisor of Manchester United.
