Manchester United cannot afford to carry on being this version of a football club: the history boys, a fading heritage exhibition
Well, that’s finally happened then. On, now, to the next glorious two-year plan. The last few months of Erik Ten Hag’s time at Manchester United have felt at times like a throwback to the dog days of the Soviet Union, when the Secretary of the Central Committee always seemed to be either dead or dying, wheeled out grudgingly to oversee a parade every three months, the human face of this vast, dying red bureaucracy basically a corpse in a coat propped up in front of some missiles.
As of Monday afternoon we finally have clarity. The latest man in black is no more. That frowning bald Dutchman with a way of standing on the Old Trafford touchline that conveyed a strangely tender kind of pathos, a man to whom the world is simply doing things, will now receive the large payoff governed by an utterly insane two-year contract signed this summer, at a point when he was already clearly just a pair of legs in a suit.
Written by Barney Ronay
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/oct/28/ten-hag-saga-is-a-major-black-eye-for-ineos-at-a-time-when-uniteds-brand-is-dying under the title “Ten Hag saga is a major black eye for Ineos at a time when United’s brand is dying | Barney Ronay”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
