Since becoming a co-owner of Man United last year, a lot of talk around Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s time at Old Trafford has been about the future of their manager Erik ten Hag and the Ineos CEO knows exactly who he wants as manager of the English giants.
The 2023/24 campaign was an underwhelming one for United as they finished eighth in the Premier League and bottom of their Champions League group. Ten Hag was under a lot of pressure throughout the season but the Dutch coach saved his job at the last moment.
Man United’s FA Cup success over Man City played a role in Ten Hag remaining at Old Trafford for the current season, but the 54-year-old is already under pressure due to the Manchester club’s poor start to the current campaign.
It was widely reported during the summer that Man United’s board looked into hiring a new manager but ultimately decided to stick with their current boss.
According to The Mirror, Sir Jim Ratcliffe knows exactly who he wants in charge at Old Trafford as he is believed to be dreaming of luring Zinedine Zidane to Man United.
However, the former Real Madrid coach has his eyes on the French national team role as Didier Deschamps’ time with the 2018 World Cup winners looks to be going a bit stale following recent results.
Zinedine Zidane rules out move to Man United
Zidane has not been seen in a managerial role since 2021 when he left Real Madrid but the Frenchman has already ruled himself out of taking charge of Manchester United, which will come as a blow to Ratcliffe.
The legendary figure has told L’Equipe that a big reason for not taking on the role in Manchester is down to the 52-year-old not being fluent in English.
“Would I want to go to Manchester [United]? I understand English, but I’m not completely fluent in it. I know that there are coaches who go to clubs without speaking the language, but I work in a different way,” Zidane said via the Daily Mail.
“Many elements come into play in order to win, it is a global context. I know what I need to win.”
Football fans are eager to see Zidane back on the sidelines as his time at Real Madrid was legendary having delivered the La Liga giants three Champions League trophies in a row.
The Frenchman clearly has an eye on coaching his country and that opportunity may not be far away for the former Real Madrid boss.
sack tenhag now, appoint Carrick or Benny McCarthy as caretaker coaches since the players likes them and made Zinedine Zidane an offer that he cannot refuse
Carrick is the only undefeated United coach in club history. However, the perfect coach for this team is already at United… Ruud van Nistelrooy.
It is factual Michael Carrick made an impact as caretaker following exit of Ole G. S. At this rate the team is likely to be at the bottom of the league history. Its like previous stars are the choice as way forward
Offer him an interpreter and allow him to be France manager as well
Ridiculous. He can’t speak the language and has no experience of bringing young player on and developing them. He had a functioning squad of superstars, that is not the case at United.
Bring back Ole
Ole,Ruud van Nistelrooy, Carrick 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏💯💯💯👍👍👍😏👍💗💗💗💎💎 I beg wooo
Ten Hag will lead the club to down slide. He has nothing to offer the club so the earlier he leave the club the better
Yes ten han need to be sack streat away and again, don’t let him talk if not he will tell u he won two trophy.
he has won 2 trophies in English football, and he has won trophies in the Dutch lg, only a fool would judge him on last season with all the injuries united had, also there is still a lot of dead wood at united which are not ten hag signings, three games up to now this season 2 defeats out of 3 games but the NEW players have not had time to settle in have they , also it would be interesting to vie sir Alex’s record in start of season game, my recollection of united ( and i have supported united since 1948) is i have always dreaded united having a good start to a season because they always fall in a hole with bad results about 5-6 games in, Mabe if people like you got of ten hags back and gave him support it just might help, i wonder (if your old enough that is) do you remember what uniteds lg position was in sir Alexs first couple of seasons were ?
The clarion call to sack Erik ten Hag is growing by the day and getting louder with more people disgusted and disillusioned with his ineptitude and lack of pedigree to manage Manchester United.
I am appalled by Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s decision to still keep him as the early signs do not augurs well for football excellence of the team.
With still several players injured and new recruits not yet match fit, Southampton may be encouraged to smell a scalp when they play Manchester United this weekend.
If Sir Jim Ratcliffe manages to get Zinedine Zidane to manage Manchester United, I will salute him for his astute but elite management of the club.
Indeed he must be frustrated that keeping Erik ten has been a great mistake, just based on the success against Manchester City in Emirates FA Cup.
Erik ten Hag’s incompetence is very glaring and to claim credit for the 2 Cup triumphs reflects on his immaturity and selfishness. Especially when he has squandered close to £600m on his failed recruitments.
I don’t know where we are heading with Ten hag . All new managers with out any premier league experience destroyed him away & home. I ask ineos pls sack him now
Ten hag has failed he must just leave and bring back Ole Carrick and Ruud !!
Zinadine Zidane coached a Real Madrid side full of top class players.
I am not sure how much influence/coaching Zidane needed to do with that team
This Manchester United team is poles apart from that team, so I am really not sure if Zidane would be the right fit for this current rag tag United toutfit
I think United would benefit much more from a spell under someone like Carsley rather than Zidane.
Just my thoughts