Erik ten Hag agrees deal to become Manchester United manager
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
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🗓️ 13 April 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Mark Chapman is joined by The Athletic's David Ornstein, Adam Crafton and Carl Anka to react to the news David broke on Tuesday evening that Erik ten Hag has agreed a deal in principle to become the next permanent Manchester United manager.
There's discussion of the scale of the task facing ten Hag, his suitability for the role, how much say in incomings and outgoings he will likely have, and how he will fit into the existing footballing hierarchy at Old Trafford.
We also a look at where this leaves Mauricio Pochettino, who for a long time was thought to be the manager many inside and outside the club wanted to take over.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | Hello, welcome to the athletic football pod. |
| 0:17.5 | I'm Mark Chapman, and we're just going to change it a little bit this week. |
| 0:20.8 | No business of sport pod this week. Instead, we're going to discuss the news that David |
| 0:25.1 | Ornstein broke on Tuesday evening. The Manchester United have reached an agreement with IAX's |
| 0:29.7 | Eric Tenhaug to be their new permanent manager. So David is with us now, along with the athletics |
| 0:35.7 | Adam Crafton and Carl Anker. |
| 0:40.2 | And we'll start with you, David. Just give us the headlines. |
| 0:45.5 | Yeah, well, Eric Tenhag, Mark, is going to be the new permanent manager of Manchester United, |
| 0:51.5 | subject to them finishing off the formalities of this appointment, which means putting everything in writing. It might not be that quick because Eric Tenhaag is a stickler for detail |
| 0:56.1 | and he'll want everything in the contract to be absolutely spot on. |
| 0:59.9 | But I think now they're at a point where it is definitely going to get done. |
| 1:05.2 | They need to cross the tease, dot the eyes, talk about timings of announcements and things like that to be respectful to IACS, |
| 1:12.1 | strike an agreement with IACs to release him from his contract there. But the top line is that |
| 1:17.0 | Manchester United now have a verbal agreement in principle with Eric Tenhag for him to take over. |
| 1:22.7 | And that basically brings to an end their managerial recruitment process, which we've reported on since |
| 1:29.0 | the end of January, and I can talk you through that in due course. And it's going to be a contract |
| 1:34.6 | running up to four years. They still need to agree the backroom staff and a number of other |
| 1:40.7 | issues. But yeah, this is now almost at an end. |
| 1:44.8 | It's pretty much a done deal. |
| 1:46.0 | But there's still some stuff to iron out to put in the contract? |
| 1:49.0 | Yeah, there will be a lot to discuss around power, around responsibility, |
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