Up to now this season issues haven’t gone too nicely for Erik ten Hag and Man United.
With 21 video games performed of the present Premier League season, the Pink Devils are in seventh place, eight factors off the highest 4 and 13 away from Liverpool on the summit. The Reds even have a sport in hand.
Of the highest ten groups within the desk, they’re the one ones with a detrimental aim distinction at this stage, although a mitigating issue is that United have had an unsettled squad all through the marketing campaign due to accidents and ill-discipline.
If ten Hag can hit the candy spot that he discovered final season, there’s no purpose why United can’t make a late run for the Champions League spots at worst, although it would require everybody to tug in the identical route and for accidents to be form to them.
It might be that this January window isn’t the time for the membership to make a giant splash within the switch market, moderately they wait till Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s takeover is absolutely ratified.
The rest of the season can even give Sir Dave Brailsford and others a superb probability to evaluate precisely the place there must be modifications, with cash made accessible in the summertime because of this.
One participant that the Each day Mirror (h/t TNT Sports activities) linked with the membership is Bayern Munich’s Matthijs de Ligt, a defender that ten Hag made captain at Ajax at simply 19 years of age.
The Dutchman isn’t having one of the best time in Bavaria, and it seems that a summer season transfer could possibly be on the playing cards.
“It’s nonetheless too early to foretell summer season transfers… for certain there can be an opportunity for Matthijs de Ligt to go away in the summertime as a result of the state of affairs stays fairly open, however it’s too early to say concrete golf equipment,” Fabrizio Romano mentioned in his unique Each day Briefing for CaughtOffside.