Erik Ten Hag Hard To Stay At Manchester United

JAKARTA - Erik ten Hag insists Manchester United want to build a team back with him next season after rumors of his dismissal.

Previously, Ten Hag was widely leaving Old Trafford no matter Mancheser United winning the FA Cup.

Sir Jim Ratcliffe, the new minority shareholder of Manchester United, has even compiled a list of four potential managers to replace Ten Hag.

However, Ten Hag remains against and insists on staying at Old Trafford next season to build a team as Radcliffe wants.

"They said they wanted to change everything and wanted to rebuild with me. This is what they said directly to me."

"Let me be clear. This is bad. This is nonsense," said Ten Hag in Dutch media, Voetbal International.

Ten Hag is expected to lift the suitcase soon after the FA Cup final match against Manchester City. The club refused to support him even though he had received the FA Cup trophy.

However, the 54-year-old manager was reluctant to give up and insisted on being worth defending. He considers Manchester United's poor performance this season influenced by many things, one of which is a long storm of injuries.

"The injury is really crazy. Not long ago, I had to play a different central defender duo in the 15th season. I have 33 different defense lines this season."

"Sofyan Amrabat had to play left-back four times. We suffered injuries across the pitch."

"Casemiro has been out for a long time. Rasmus Hojlund, the striker we bought, suffered three injuries and I can continue to play. This is the core story of our season."

"Tyrell Malacia didn't play a minute this season. In fact, he didn't even spend a minute on the training ground."

"We signed it as our backup for Luke Shaw, who is the best left-back in the world. This guy is very good."

"However, he suffered a serious injury at the start of his career. Because of that, he will never be able to play 60 games per season," Ten Hag said again.

The explanation of the long injury made Ten Hag confident that it would be maintained. In fact, he has already put together a transfer plan for next season according to Radcliffe's projection.

"We need to recruit additional strikers in the summer. If we can recruit other midfielders and substitutes (Raphael) Varane, things will look good again."

"If the team stays fit, we can try and target the top four again," he said.

Furthermore, Ten Hag said that the rumors of his dismissal did not come from within the club, but from many pundits criticizing him.

No wonder, he criticized the English football experts who made the conditions at Manchester United tally.

"Experts in England want to score goals, they want to show that they are commensurate with the money spent. For that, Manchester United is an easy prey."

"It's the biggest club in the UK and maybe in the world. This club is loved or hated, nothing between the two. So, when things get bad, they all start talking and talking in very big words."

"All the negativism of experts who do not have the ability to analyze things based on facts, but prefer to attack other people to look better."

"These people gave me applause last year. Last year I was able to walk on water, this year I became the worst manager in the Premier League," said Ten Hag.

Meanwhile, news broke that Ratcliffe had prepared the latest names to replace Ten Hag. They are Mauricio Pochettino, Thomas Tuchel, Thomas Frank, and Kieran McKenna.