Former Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag has been sacked by Bayer Leverkusen after just two league matches in charge [Update@post #167]

[Cricket Warrior]

Sporting confirm Man Utd interest in Amorim

Manchester United are interested in appointing Sporting boss Ruben Amorim as their new manager and are willing to pay his 10m euros (£8.3m) release clause, the Portuguese club say.

The Red Devils need a new manager after sacking Erik ten Hag on Monday.

"Manchester United have expressed their interest in recruiting coach Ruben Amorim and have said they are ready to pay the 10 million euro release clause," Sporting said in a statement to Portugal's financial regulator, the CMVM.

Amorim, 39, is a highly regarded coach who has won two Portuguese league titles with Sporting - including their first in 19 years - since joining in 2020.

United have declined to comment on the reports.

Ruben Amorim: Man Utd interested in Sporting manager, say Portuguese club

Manchester United are interested in appointing Sporting boss Ruben Amorim as their new manager and are willing to pay his 10m euros (£8.3m) release clause, the Portuguese club say.

www.bbc.com

 

[Bewal Express]

I heard he plays 5 at the back, this works very rarely in the PL. I can only think of 2 teams that have won the PL like this- Arsenal under George Graham, when they played Keown, Adams and Bould and then the Chelsea team under Conte.

 

[Kroll]

Although he will be looked back on as a massive failure, he still won more trophies in 2 years than Arteta has in 6 during what we are led to believe is some sort of Arsenal golden era.

 

[BouncerGuy]

Man Utd target Amorim yet to make decision about future

Sporting boss Ruben Amorim says he has not yet made a decision about his future after Manchester United expressed an interest in appointing him manager.

Sporting confirmed earlier on Tuesday that United had made an approach and are willing to pay Amorim's 10m euros (£8.3m) release clause.

Speaking after his side's 3-1 Portuguese League Cup quarter-final win against Nacional on Tuesday evening, Amorim told Sport TV:, external "Nothing is decided yet. I don't know if it's the farewell game or not."

Then in a news conference he added: "There is interest from Manchester United, there is the payment of a contract term and when I have something more solid, I will come here and tell my position, because it will be my choice.

"While I don't have everything decided, for one side or the other, I can't tell much more".

Amorim added that he will be at training on Wednesday to prepare for Friday's league game against Estrela da Amadora.

Asked if he will be in the dugout at Old Trafford for Manchester United's game against Chelsea on Sunday, Amorim said: "I will be here." But when pressed added: "I don't know."

Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola says United would be getting a high-level coach in Amorim.

"All I can talk about is the experience of playing twice against Ruben's Sporting Lisbon team, one or two seasons ago, and the pressure was really, really good," the Spaniard told a news conference.

"And look this season, he is unbeaten and winning all the games in the Portuguese League and the Champions League, [they have] the same points as us. So a high manager.

"What's going to happen I don't know, because what happened here in my experience, doesn't mean it works for the other ones. The manager, the team, the club, the structures, the physios, the doctors, the players, it's many things".

BBC

 

[Cricket Warrior]

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[BouncerGuy]

Modern players find criticism offensive - Ten Hag

Former Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag says modern players struggle to deal with criticism and that his generation had "much thicker skin".

The 55-year-old Dutchman was sacked by United in October, three months after he signed a new two-year contract.

His tenure included several issues and disputes with players.

Speaking to SEG Stories, external - a media outlet attached to his management agency - Ten Hag said: "This generation usually find it difficult to deal with criticism. Criticism really gets to them.

"The generation that I grew up in had much thicker skin. You could be much more direct.

"I was approached much more directly. If I would do that with my current group of players I would demotivate them.

"If you do that to the current generation they find it offensive."

Ten Hag won the FA Cup and League Cup during his two full seasons at United, but they finished eighth in the table last season, their worst Premier League finish.

Cristiano Ronaldo's contract was terminated midway through Ten Hag's first season after he gave an interview to Piers Morgan in which he said he did not respect Ten Hag.

Jadon Sancho was banished from the first-team squad after accusing Ten Hag of making him a "scapegoat" following criticism of his performances in training.

Ten Hag disciplined Marcus Rashford last year for missing training following an unauthorised trip to Belfast.

Former United defender Raphael Varane last week said he was surprised the club gave Ten Hag a new contract because his connection with the players "no longer existed".

However, Ten Hag was praised for developing younger players such as Alejandro Garnacho and Kobbie Mainoo at Old Trafford.

He said managers "have to show them (modern players) more love".

"With this generation you choose different words and a different approach," he said.

"(Sir Alex) Ferguson also belonged to the previous generation. With that generation you could be much more direct in your communication and approach.

"A player of this generation will feel ridiculed if you approach them like that."

Ten Hag, who said he will not take a new job until next season, said he was "grateful" to United fans for their support.

"What makes the Manchester United fans so special is that they stand by the team even in the face of setbacks," said Ten Hag.

"I was appreciated and I always felt that when I walked the streets of Manchester."

BBC

 

[The Bald Eagle]

Former Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag has been sacked by Bayer Leverkusen after just two league matches in charge

Ten Hag, 55, was only appointed by the German club in the summer having been fired by United in October.

The Dutchman is the third former United boss to be sacked in a week - after Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was dismissed by Besiktas on Thursday and Jose Mourinho exited Fenerbahce on Friday.

"Nobody wanted to take this step," Leverkusen managing director Simon Rolfes told the club website., external

"However, the past few weeks have shown that building a new and successful team with this set-up is not feasible."

Ten Hag's sacking is the fastest in Bundesliga history, breaking the previous record of five matches.

Leverkusen have earned one point from their first two league games.

After losing 2-1 at home to Hoffenheim on the opening weekend, they drew 3-3 at 10-man Werder Bremen on Saturday, having led 2-0 and 3-1.

Ten Hag signed a two-year contract to succeed Xabi Alonso as head coach in May after the Spaniard, who led Leverkusen to a league and cup double in 2023-24, was appointed Real Madrid boss.

"A parting of ways at this early stage of the season is painful, but we felt it was necessary," said Leverkusen CEO Fernando Carro.

"We remain committed to achieving our goals for the season - and to do that, we need the best possible conditions at all levels and across the entire first team."

'Not an easy decision to make'
Ten Hag was tasked with bedding in more than a dozen new signings before this season, having lost several key players in the summer.

Florian Wirtz joined Liverpool for a fee rising to £116m, Jeremie Frimpong also moved to the Reds for £29.5m and Granit Xhaka signed for Sunderland for £13m.

Defender Jonathan Tah joined Bayern Munich on a free transfer, winger Amine Adli moved to Bournemouth in a deal worth up to £25.1m, while goalkeeper Lukas Hradecky joined Monaco.

The three most expensive signings in Leverkusen's history - Malik Tillman from PSV Eindhoven, Jarell Quansah from Liverpool and Eliesse Ben Seghir from Monaco - all arrived this summer, for a total of £88.4m (102m euros) plus add-ons.

"This decision was not an easy one for us," added Rolfes.

"We firmly believe in the quality of our team and will now do everything we can to take the next steps in our development with a new setup."

The club did not name a replacement for Ten Hag, saying the "training work would be taken over by the assistant coaching staff for the time being".

"We remain committed to achieving our goals for the season - and to do that, we need the best possible conditions at all levels and across the entire first team," added Carro.

"Now it's a matter of fully implementing and utilising these conditions again."

Source: BBC

 

[Amjid Javed]

So all players left as they didn't want to play under ten haag, then he gets sacked

 

[Markhor]

What has football come to when managers are getting sacked after two league games ?

 

[Amjid Javed]

What has football come to when managers are getting sacked after two league games ?

Should have never been manager in 1st place

 

[The_KING]

Leverkusen sell all of their best players and then sack the manager after two games. What a joke of a club.