Without Ronaldo and Pogba. How the new United manager will rebuild the club

On Thursday, Manchester United officially announced the appointment of 52-year-old Eric Ten Hag as HEAD coach.How the Dutch mentor will change the club and which players can leave Manchester in the summer - in the material "RBC Sport" Read us in News NewsWho is Ten Hag?

Eric Ten Hag was born in 1970 and is 52 years old. The future coach began his playing career at the Twente Academy. Ten Hag played exclusively for Dutch clubs and never played for foreign clubs. As a player, Ten Hag was never able to achieve great results. The main achievement is the Dutch Cup won with Twente in 2001. A year later, Eric ended his career and became the coach of the Twente youth team.

After that, the coach Ten Hag managed to work as an assistant at PSV, headed the Go Ahead Eagles, which was able to bring them to the main division of the Dutch championship in the 2012/2013 season. After that, the mentor moved to Germany, leading the Bayern youth team, but returned to his homeland two years later. In 2015, Ten Hag made the Dutch football fans remember their existence again by accepting a coaching and managerial position at Utrecht. In 2016, Ten Hag took fifth place in the championship with the new club and reached the final of the Dutch Cup. In the Europa League, Utrecht stopped St. Petersburg Zenit at the stage of selection for the group.

In December 2017, Ten Hag took charge of Ajax. Under his leadership, the club from Amsterdam had the best season in the 21st century, winning the "golden double" (Dutch championship + national cup) and setting a club performance record.

In the next season, Ajax already surprised not only the Dutch public, but the whole of Europe. The Red-Whites were able to get past the Spanish Real Madrid (three-time winner of the Champions League of the 2016-2018 seasons) and the Italian Juventus. And only a last-minute goal from Tottenham deprived Ten Hag and Ajax of the final of the European tournament. it is symbolic that Tottenham was then led by Mauricio Pochettino. The British media called him Ten Hag's main competitor in the fight for the mentor's chair at Manchester United.

The 52-year-old Dutchman will start with the Red Devils from the new 2022/2023 season. The Daily Mail claims that the specialist wants to invite Steve McLaren, Alex Ferguson's assistant, to the coaching staff.

The Guardian correspondent Jamie Jackson writes that Eric ten Hag has already made preliminary conclusions about which players exactly should remain in the team. They are Bruno Fernandes, Rafael Varane, Marcus Rashford, Scott McTominay and Jadon Sancho.

Erik ten Hag has been discussing potential transfers during negotiations with United for several weeks, according to The Telegraph. The club watched Benfica forward Darwin Nunez and Villarreal forward Arnaud Danjuma. Ten Hag also believes that Ajax right winger Anthony is ready to "take it to the next level" and wants to invite him to the club.

Players who should be able from "Manchester"

Eric Bailly (defender, contract expires 2024)

Despite the fact that for a defender 27 years old is not old and still gives a player the opportunity to reach the top level, Bayi is often injured and almost never plays for the first team. Most likely, United's management will consider parting ways with the defender.

Edinson Cavani (forward, contract expires 2022)

Cavani could very well have been United's No. 1 offensive line, but Ronaldo's signing has turned him into a rotation player and almost never starts. In the new Ten Hag system, it will be extremely difficult for a player to cope with the requirements of the coach to constantly put pressure on the opponent.

Jesse Lingard (midfielder, contract expires 2022)

Lingard could have left the club in the summer, but the management of Manchester managed to persuade the midfielder to remain in the team. Now the relationship has become even more tense, so the right decision now would be to leave the old club

Anthony Martial (forward, contract expires 2024)

The player was in the English club for seven years, but at the beginning of this year he went on loan to the Spanish Sevilla.

The sporting DIRECTOR Ramon Monchi of the Spanish team, in an interview with the Daily Mail, did not rule out a full-fledged transfer of the player.

“His loan was cheaper than you think, but the transfer fee is still quite large. We are talking about €6-7 million. Unfortunately, it is difficult to analyze the game of Martial when he was injured, and now he is injured again. I do not rule out the possibility of his full-fledged transfer, we have something to discuss with the player at the end of the season,” Monchi said.

Juan Mata (midfielder, contract expires 2022)

“I’m a veteran shooter, call me Juan Mata,” wrote one of the Russian rap artists about the club’s legend of the 2010s, club legend Juan Mata. In 2014, a £37.1m transfer from Chelsea was the most expensive in United's history (to be surpassed by Angel Di Maria shortly thereafter). Now the player is 34 years old and in terms of his playing qualities he does not fit the football that Ten Hag puts on.

Paul Pogba (midfielder, contract expires 2022)

The world football champion in the French national team, the hero of glossy magazines, could not spend a full season for Manchester. The player clearly does not justify the qualities assigned to him, so it's time to say goodbye to the "precious" player.

Cristiano Ronaldo (forward, contact expires 2023)

Cristiano turns 37 this year. The Portuguese striker does not fit into teams that play with high pressure. He is a different kind of player. A weekly salary of £490,000 puts a certain burden on the club's payroll. At the moment, the player does not declare a desire to leave the club. In addition, there is no new buyer for Ronaldo yet. However, there is a possibility that closer to the beginning of the transfer window, the question of Ronaldo's contract with United will arise again.