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Ruud van Nistelrooy has printed that Erik ten Hag became as soon as left “hurt” by his Manchester United sacking on the originate of this week, paying the value for unhappy results to kick off 2024/25.
Van Nistelrooy became as soon as like a flash named meantime boss, having been brought support to the club by Ten Hag all the design thru the summer season, 18 years after he supreme represented United as a player.
“I saw him on Monday and spoke to him before the [Leicester City] game,” Van Nistelrooy defined to newshounds on Wednesday after a thumping 5-2 acquire in the Carabao Cup.
“He was disappointed and touched because he really cared for the club. The first conversations we had when I came back to the club, I felt he cared and loved the club and wanted to bring the club forward. That’s why he’s also hurt that he had to leave but also proud of his achievement here, winning the two cups.”
Ten Hag delivered the Carabao Cup in his debut season at United, ending a six-year trophy drought that had predicament in following the 2016/17 campaign. He then obtained the FA Cup in opposition to the probabilities supreme season, pulling off a shock in opposition to Manchester City in the supreme at Wembley Stadium.
That sage makes him one in every of most attention-grabbing a handful of United managers over the supreme 146 years to maintain obtained two or more necessary trophies, alongside esteemed company in Sir Alex Ferguson, Sir Matt Busby, Ernest Mangnall, Ron Atkinson and Jose Mourinho.
But Ten Hag could per chance per chance no longer live to convey the tale a originate to the season which observed United languishing 14th in the Premier League table nine video games in, having obtained most attention-grabbing three league video games and none in Europe. Defeat to West Ham away supreme Sunday proved to the supreme straw as the carrying hierarchy determined his time became as soon as up.
