Manchester United have sacked manager Erik ten Hag following their disappointing start to the new season. Ruud van Nistelrooy will take charge of the team as interim head coach, supported by the current coaching team, while a permanent head coach is recruited.
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00:00Rich Fair here from Manchester World where the shock news is that Manchester United have
00:05sacked manager Eric Ten Haag following their 2-1 defeat against West Ham in the Premier
00:10League. Manchester United 14th in the top flight and have only won 4 of their 14 matches
00:15across all competitions this season as well as throwing away leads in all 3 of their Europa
00:22League matches. Manchester United say there are no excuses for their poor start to the
00:27season and while they wanted to do everything they could to help Eric Ten Haag succeed they
00:32say there has not been any evidence of improvement and there is no sign that things were going
00:37to get better under the Dutchman. United of course lost in controversial circumstances
00:41against West Ham on Sunday. Things might have been different if not for that outrageous
00:46penalty decision at the end of the game but Manchester United feel that now is the time
00:51to act. Ruud van Nistelrooy will take temporary charge of the club when they face Leicester
00:55City in the Carabao Cup on Wednesday night. Manchester United are going to conduct their
01:01search for a new manager. We understand Julian Nagelsmann, Xavi Hernandez, Ruben Amarim are
01:07all leading contenders to potentially take over Old Trafford. Manchester United won't
01:12rush this decision though. There is no one currently lined up to come in and take immediate
01:17charge like we said van Nistelrooy and the current coaching staff will lead United for
01:21the foreseeable future. Who knows what happens for van Nistelrooy now similar to Ole Gunnar
01:30Solskjaer who took over on an initial caretaker basis but for Manchester United they felt
01:34they had to act. Eric Ten Haag was given a stay of execution in the summer after the
01:39FA Cup win over Man City. He wasn't backed with a new deal but he was backed with £200
01:44million in the transfer window. He had his veto on transfer signing still. He remained
01:49as the manager rather than the head coach. It will be interesting to see if Manchester
01:53United do appoint a head coach rather than a manager, someone who is solely responsible
01:57for performances and results on the pitch rather than transfer matters as Ten Haag did.
02:03But Manchester United like we said just felt that they weren't getting any better under
02:07Eric Ten Haag as much as they felt that the results weren't in their favour. They felt
02:11that ultimately the performances weren't improving either. That is the indictment of Ten Haag
02:16in his third season in charge of Manchester United, 14th in the Premier League, on course
02:20to finish even lower than they did last season which was their lowest ever finish in the
02:25Premier League. Ten Haag carried on speaking about trophies. He insisted that United would
02:30win trophies by the end of the season. He thought that winning domestic trophies almost
02:34made up for poor form in the Premier League but it just not been good enough for Manchester
02:40United. They felt that they had to act. Yeah, breaking news and you can follow all of it
02:44with us on Manchester World. Eric Ten Haag has been sacked as Manchester United manager.