Manchester United fans react to the club finally sacking beleagured boss Erik Ten Hag, the interim appointment of club legend Ruud Van Nistelrooy and who they would like to take charge at Old Trafford next
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00:00What can I get your name? Nick Slack. Nick, Eric has gone, how do you take that news?
00:08Quite surprised, I mean if you saw the West Ham game yesterday you know I thought
00:12you know we made a good account of ourselves, it's a results driven business so not surprising
00:19really in the end but I thought we played okay yesterday. A bit unlucky weren't you, he's been
00:23very unlucky the last few weeks hasn't he? Very unlucky, I mean the Villa game wasn't a great
00:27quality game but we matched Villa, could have won that game. Brentford game, a lot of fights
00:33and then obviously the Hammers game yesterday, enough chances to win that game three times.
00:37Exactly, now Ruud's been handed the job on an interim basis, I can tell by your face that's
00:42not a great appointment for you. Well I mean he gets the club, he loves the club, he understands
00:47it, obviously when you watch him on the sidelines his passion, you know his animation, really good
00:51to see but I think as soon as that appointment was announced over the summer it was always going
00:56to be the case, he was the man in waiting. Do you think he'll get it full-time or do you think
01:02the likes of Xavi, Gareth Southgate? Not a fan of Southgate myself, not a fan of Potter either,
01:12over the summer I even suggested Pochettino but obviously he's gone to the States now.
01:16I think in the short term it'll be a give him five, ten games, see how he gets on, you know like
01:20I say he gets the club, he's passionate but no there's got to be a long-term solution. Xavi
01:25apparently has held talks so apparently he's on the cards but I don't know. Exactly,
01:31what can Man United salvage this season? Early days still, I mean we've only played nine games
01:38in the league and Europa League, three games, we were in front in all three of those games
01:43and managed to draw them and that's been the story of our season, you know quite unlucky, lots of
01:47chances but my concern is how does Nistori get our strikers banging it in? That's what he's brought
01:53in for the club to do, to bring goals to Garnaccio and Hoyland, he hasn't been able to do it as an
01:58assistant, what's going to change now? Eric Mason. Mason, news of Eric being sacked has just leaked
02:07out, what are your thoughts on that? Yeah I think it was time to be honest, I do feel for him a
02:15little bit but performances just haven't been good enough. I think the important thing is who they
02:22bring in next obviously but yeah I had a feeling it was going to happen this morning. What do you
02:29make of Ruud taking charge? I think it's only, I've just read it's only in the short term anyway,
02:34I did not want them to give him the job because it would just be like it would have been with
02:39Ole Gunnar Solskjaer anyway so we don't want that again but yeah it's just who's available.
02:48We've started to talk with Xavi haven't we? Yeah I don't know how I feel about that because I know
02:52he's got a bit of a relationship with Omar Barad doesn't he from Barca. It could be interesting,
02:58it could work or it could absolutely fail spectacularly. What about other names,
03:06Gareth Southgate, Graeme Foster? I do not want Gareth Southgate in charge of Manchester United.
03:13Watching England, I know even though he's got to finals and stuff like that, the football that he
03:17plays, it just will not work at Man United. That's what I'm a little bit worried about because
03:23even with the team he had with England, we should have been winning them tournaments and
03:28he didn't even though he got to finals and stuff like that but his management style is just not
03:32what we want. I do not want Southgate anywhere near Man United. There's talk of Amerim,
03:39I don't really know much about him, he's obviously doing all right with sporting
03:43but yeah my ideal choice would probably be Nagelsmann, but it's just whether we can get
03:52him away from the Germany national team. But I mean if Man United come calling and you give him
03:57the big job, I think if that's a possibility I would go for him, he'd be my number one choice.
04:05What do you make of the news of Eric Ten Haag being sacked? I mean it was going to happen
04:10eventually and with the recent result it was like he had to go.
04:15Who would you like to see take over? It's probably going to be like Southgate or something.
04:21Apparently he's talked to Xabi. Yeah I think Xabi is probably a good option. Yeah he'd bring
04:29that style of football that I think United fans are craving aren't they? Yeah because Ten Haag's
04:34been here for a few seasons but he hasn't really implemented a clear style of football.
04:40Yeah that is Ballister and these are my grandsons Noah and Luke. We've just had the news that Eric
04:47Ten Haag's been sacked as manager of Manchester United, what do you make of that? It hasn't come
04:52as a surprise. He probably needed his one year extension and I can understand that. He did win
05:01two trophies, did beat City, that must count for something. But unfortunately for me personally as
05:10a match going red I don't think he had a decent enough plan to get the results so it didn't come
05:22as a surprise. So numbers of names being lit with a job because it's still a top job, who would you
05:29like to see come in? You've got the likes of Southgate, Potter, Thomas Frank, Xabi. Right now maybe
05:40you start the foreign cultures maybe but the others it would be like a job, none of the above.
05:48You know it is a really big job and you need a really big new manager. They missed out on
05:57Southgate probably, they missed out on Tuchel, they'd have been better choices.
06:05I mean maybe Southgate at the moment, I don't know but you'd have to ask these two. What do you think guys?
06:14I'm thinking more maybe Xabi because he's got that footballing history but he's also
06:20he's also got that knowing of how attacking and defending and keeping it nice and balanced
06:28all at the same time with keeping a positive mindset even if you're losing.
06:33That's the key word I think balance, the team's been very unbalanced hasn't it? What do you think?
06:39Yeah I'd agree with Xabi, he's proving himself Barcelona winning titles in the league and he's
06:44got like a tactic behind him and a plan and it turned out he didn't really have a plan
06:50but I think someone has to change the managers because we've had eight managers since Fergie and
06:54it's just the same problems, no plan, loss and it's just unacceptable. And since Moyes it's just been
07:00a catalogue of disasters. Yeah it has, it has and Moyes was supposedly chosen by Fergie but that
07:07turned out not to be right didn't it? No exactly but I always think that Moyes suffered because
07:12Gill went, I think if Gill had stayed till the end of the transfer window I think we'd
07:17have had a very different story with Manchester United because it was Gill who was buying the
07:21players wasn't it? Well it was but again with 10 hard players they've got to hold their hands up
07:28you know and I mean all right we go to that penalty. Was it, was it not but those decisions
07:37and things like that get managers sacked and he's no control over that.
07:45Dane as a United fan how do you take the news of Eric being sacked?
07:50Listen it's never nice to see a manager get sacked however that being said it's been a long time
07:56coming. I was surprised with the news regime that he kept his job in the summer, I thought he'd gone
08:00away with a handshake after the cup win. They gave him another go and straight from the start I
08:05couldn't see what he was going to do differently. I think for whatever reason he just struggles to
08:12to motivate the players. I just don't think the man management there, I just don't think,
08:17I don't think they want to die for him on the pitch which I think players need to.
08:20Like at City for Pep, like we had Klopp at Liverpool, you've got to have that fire, you've
08:24got to have that hunger, desire to want to die for the boss and for whatever reason the lads just
08:28don't seem to want to do it for Eric. It's been quite shambolic some of the performances. Yeah,
08:33I think some of the decision making, some of the signings certainly very questionable,
08:39you know decisions, people coming in like in midweek where he played Missouri at number 10
08:44and you've got Ahmad, player of the month last month, coming on for five minutes at the end.
08:48It just doesn't make sense to me, it doesn't make sense. Exactly, how do you feel about Van Nistelrooy
08:53taking charge? Listen he's united through and through. I think in US Mr Ratcliffe had a contingency
08:59plan that with him being on the bench that if the worst were to happen he'd step in and take it.
09:05Listen, he can't do any worse can he? We saw Oli come in and take the job a couple of years ago,
09:10got off to a flying start. If I was united I'd start the process to look for a manager again,
09:16give Van Nistelrooy a go. If after 10 games we're back to winning ways and we've got some identity,
09:21why not give him to the end of the season? And if by the end of the season we're looking more
09:26of a united team, players want to play for him, give him a couple of year contract, let him have a go.
09:31So there's other names being linked, Southgate? For me I don't see the sense in that, why?
09:38What's he achieved at club level? Did he achieve a lot at international level because
09:44with the group of players he got he couldn't get us over the finish line so why is he going to come
09:48to Manchester United and do something different? I just don't think it's fair.
09:54Xavi? Xavi, he's done well at Barcelona but again we don't know if he's a one-trick pony,
10:02he's only done it there. For me my dream manager for United would be Diego Simeone from Atletico
10:09Madrid, someone that's going to come in and fire the players right up, wear his heart on his sleeve
10:13and they're going to want to die for him. So for me Diego Simeone would be the one, whether it's
10:19achievable to get him is a different question but I'd love to see someone with that stature at
10:23United. Bahar? Bahar, Eric ten Haag's just been sacked as United boss, what do you make of the
10:31news? I'm very glad that he's been sacked because we've been performing below par for a length of
10:40time and I think it's about time that we need fresh energy, a new perspective and new ideas.
10:51So Van Nistelrooy's taking charge, what do you make of that move for him? I think he'll be good
10:57as an interim coach but I don't think he'll be good enough for the long-term position.
11:04Who would you like to see take the job? I think my first choice would have been Thomas Tuchel but
11:14he has taken over as England boss so I don't know. They're talking about Xavi coming in,
11:20what do you think of that? I don't think he'll be an upgrade on ten Haag to be honest.