🗞 Erik ten Hag will not be backed with a lavish budget to rebuild #mufc but will receive what the club regard as adequate funds to enhance a squad that the new manager believes he can vastly improve with his coaching.

🗞 Although funds will not be limitless, in line with club policy and as a result of the pandemic, with Paul Pogba, Juan Mata, Phil Jones, Nemanja Matic and Jesse Lingard among those due to leave in the summer this will allow him greater flexibility.

🗞 Ten Hag views the group he will inherit as having vastly underperformed this season and feels it contains four groups of players worth persevering with. First are those at pinnacle of their careers, where Ten Hag places Bruno Fernandes and Raphaël Varane.

🗞 That is followed by those entering that phase, in his opinion Marcus Rashford and Scott McTominay; others on an upward trajectory, such as Jadon Sancho, and youngsters emerging from the academy, including Hannibal Mejbri, Alejandro Garnacho and James Garner.

🗞 That is followed by those entering that phase, in his opinion Marcus Rashford and Scott McTominay; others on an upward trajectory, such as Jadon Sancho, and youngsters emerging from the academy, including Hannibal Mejbri, Alejandro Garnacho and James Garner.

🗞 Heading Ten Hag’s targets are expected to be a midfielder – Declan Rice is on the shortlist – although Van de Beek will be given a chance to revive his #mufc career. A centre-back and a centre-forward will also be a priority.

🗞 Erik ten Hag’s appointment has had a mixed reception from the #mufc squad, with some players ambivalent and other underwhelmed as they wait to work with him.

[Source : Guardian]