The Dutchman’s future is in serious doubt as United’s dismal season suffered a fresh embarrassment on Sunday afternoon. Despite all the doom and gloom, Ten Hag has received some kind words from United’s academy director Nick Cox.

“The bit that people don’t see is the amount of boys that actually work with him on a daily basis to support training, not necessarily the group that we’ve been talking about here at the 18s, but the 21s have a really close connection and boys that will support the team to prepare on a weekly basis. Whether he is around to do it for much longer though, remains to be seen.”

“I think that result has just cost Erik ten Hag his job,” he claimed. “I don’t see how he stays, I really don’t.

It’s just poor performance after poor performance. That dressing room is probably the most embarrassed dressing room from a team that has just won a big game.

You can’t even celebrate that win. Maybe that can somehow win the final but I just don’t see any progress.

This is somebody’s job we’re talking about but I just don’t see how they [the owners] can look at the situation and be positive about it. I don’t see it.”

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