Erik ten Hag will be gone by Christmas as the Manchester United boss has implemented no change whatsoever from last season.
Ten Hag was handed a one-year extension in the summer by new owner and head of football operations Sir Jim Ratcliffe, whose team conducted a thorough strategic review of the club and decided the Dutchman remained the best man to take them forward.
That s despite United finishing eighth, their worst ever finish in the Premier League, with their 14 league defeats also a club low.
Ten Hag did though win his second trophy in two seasons, beating Manchester City in the FA Cup final having claimed the Carabao Cup in his first campaign in charge.
It was perhaps that result which swung things in his favour, combined with a lack of alternative options that wouldn t have cost the club significant money to prise from other clubs.
But things haven t gone well at the start of the new season, with United losing two of their opening three fixtures, to Brighton and bitter rivals Liverpool, who .
That result restarted the Ten Hag sack chat, with many pundits now believing – if they didn t before – that .
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And former United striker Teddy Sheringham, who won three Premier League titles, the FA Cup and scored one of the two injury time goals to win the 1999 Champions League final, insists the Red Devils have to send Ten Hag packing as he believes there s been no change whatsoever despite the club spending over £200m on new players in the summer.
He said: When you re finishing eighth in the Premier League, that s quite clearly not good enough, for Man United. Full stop. End of story, for me. You ve got to change what s going on.
When you look at the inconsistency of last season, and that has followed on, without a shadow of the doubt in the first three games of this season you can see there s been no change whatsoever.