Erik ten Hag insists he IS developing a clear playing style at Man United in first sign of potential friction with new regime - as Jason Wilcox looks to impose 'game model' at Old Trafford

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By Daniel Davis

Published: 16:23 EDT, 27 April 2024 | Updated: 16:23 EDT, 27 April 2024

Erik 10 Hag has insisted he is processing a clear playing style astatine Manchester United pinch INEOS looking to found a caller crippled exemplary astatine Old Trafford.

Boss Ten Hag has recovered himself nether mounting unit pinch United connected people to miss retired connected Champions League shot adjacent play and nan caller regime, led by Sir Jim Ratcliffe, are said to beryllium assessing whether he would fresh into this project.

Ratcliffe has yet to rumor a nationalist show of support for nan embattled coach and it is thought a determination complete his early will beryllium made astatine nan extremity of nan season. 


United's caller method head Jason Wilcox has been fixed nan task of introducing nan caller crippled model, arsenic reported by The Telegraph. As portion of this process, Wilcox will besides pass decision-makers whether Ten Hag would beryllium suited to these plans.

However, successful nan first motion of imaginable clash betwixt Ten Hag and nan INEOS-led hierarchy, nan head has outlined his belief that United are already benefiting from a unified accuracy stretching crossed nan academy and nan first-team.

Erik 10 Hag has insisted he is processing a clear playing style astatine Manchester United

Sir Jim Ratcliffe (right) is expected to oversee a number of sweeping changes astatine Old Trafford

'Strengthening nan pathway betwixt nan academy and nan first squad was 1 of my priorities erstwhile I came to nan club, moving together pinch Darren Fletcher arsenic nan connector and [academy director] Nick Cox and his unit to create a shared crippled model, pinch accordant training methods and playing styles,' Ten Hag said.

'We are seeing nan results of that this season, pinch Alejandro Garnacho and Kobbie Mainoo becoming important parts of nan first team, and respective others competing to subordinate them.

'A apical nine tin ne'er win pinch homegrown players alone, but they will ever beryllium an important portion of Manchester United. 

'Ethan [Wheatley] tin beryllium proud to go nan latest portion of that communicative and others who show nan correct talent and winning cognition tin travel him.'

Ten Hag had utilized his programme notes earlier United's limp 1-1 tie pinch Burnley to make nan bullish message. Earlier successful nan week, he had handed Ethan Wheatley his elder debut, making him nan 250th academy postgraduate to measurement into nan first team. 

United's method director, Jason Wilcox, has been tasked pinch implementing a crippled model

United person missed retired connected Champions League shot successful a mediocre 2nd play nether Ten Hag

But he has besides been incapable to flight accusations that United do not person a coherent style nether his leadership, a business worsened by their convention position.

Wilcox was poached from Southampton to go United's caller method head and has wasted nary clip successful plotting respective imaginable changes crossed nan club. Darren Fletcher, who antecedently held his position, will stay albeit successful a different capacity.

Ten Hag has spoken positively connected United's caller ownership but nan grade of his statement to, aliases engagement with, a caller crippled exemplary is yet to beryllium determined. 

Wilcox is besides expected to behaviour an audit of Ten Hag's training methods and relationships pinch nan dressing room earlier reporting backmost to Ratcliffe and Omar Berrada, United's incoming main executive who will statesman activity this summer.

United person headhunted Dan Ashworth for their sporting head vacancy but pinch an statement pinch Newcastle yet to materialise, he will return them to arbitration. 


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