{"id":11777,"date":"2024-10-29T07:20:47","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T18:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=11777"},"modified":"2024-10-29T07:20:47","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T18:20:47","slug":"manchester-united-sack-manager-ten-hag-after-woeful-start-to-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=11777","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United sack manager Ten Hag after woeful start to the season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United have sacked\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/sport\/529409\/manchester-united-s-under-fire-manager-ten-hag-says-still-on-same-page-with-owners\">manager Erik ten Hag<\/a>\u00a0after their latest defeat at the weekend as they languish 14th in the Premier League table and stand winless in Europe this season without any signs of progress under the Dutchman.<\/p>\n<p>United assistant coach and ex-striker Ruud van Nistelrooy will take over on an interim basis while they search for a new manager, the Old Trafford club said in a statement, following a unanimous decision to end Ten Hag&#8217;s reign after 2-1\/2 years.<\/p>\n<p>Van Nistelrooy tops the list of favourites to permanently replace ten Hag, which also includes former Barcelona boss Xavi, Sporting manager Ruben Amorim, Brentford&#8217;s Thomas Frank, ex-Chelsea boss Graham Potter and Ipswich Town&#8217;s Kieran McKenna.<\/p>\n<p>Appointed in April 2022, ten Hag led United to two domestic trophies &#8211; the League Cup in 2023 and the FA Cup in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>But the 54-year-old&#8217;s job was the subject of speculation most of last season as United suffered a worst-ever eighth place Premier League finish and exited the Champions League at the group stage and the Dutchman was again in the hot seat.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think anyone will be truly shocked,&#8221; former United defender turned pundit Gary Neville told Sky Sports, with the club having had eight managers since Alex Ferguson retired in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>rnz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United have sacked\u00a0manager Erik ten Hag\u00a0after their latest defeat at the weekend as they languish 14th in the Premier League table and stand winless in Europe this season without any signs of progress under the Dutchman. United assistant coach and ex-striker Ruud van Nistelrooy will take over on an interim basis while they search [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11779,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11777\/revisions\/11779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}