The Athletic Hello, welcome to the Athletic Football Pod. I'm Mark Chapman and we're just going to

change it a little bit this week. No business of Sport Pod this week.

Instead, we're going to discuss the news that David Ornstein broke on Tuesday evening.

The Manchester United have reached the agreement with I.

Eric Ten-Harg to be their new permanent manager. So David is with us now, along with the athletics

Adam Crafton and Carl Anker. And we'll start with you, David. Just give us the headlines.

Yeah, well, Eric Tenharg Mark is going to be the new permanent manager of Manchester United,

subject to them finishing off the formalities of this appointment, which means putting everything in writing.

Might not be that quick because Eric Tenharg is a stickler for detail

and he'll want everything in the contract to be absolutely spot on but I think now there are

a point where it is definitely going to get done.

They need to cross the T's dot the I's talk about timings of announcements and things like that to be

respectful to IACs, strike an agreement with IACs to release him from his country. like that

be respectful to Iax strike an agreement with Iax to release him from his contract there but the top

line is that Manchester United now have a verbal agreement in principle with

Eric Tenharg for him to take over and that basically brings to an end their

managerial recruitment process which we've reported on since the end of January

and I can talk you through that in due course and it's going to be a contract running

up to four years. They still need to agree the backroom staff and a number of other issues but yeah this is now almost at an end it's pretty much a done

deal but there's still some stuff to iron out to put in the contract yeah there will be a lot

to discuss around power, around

around lines of authority and communication,

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