The Athletic. Hello and welcome to the weekend preview and the Athletic Football

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On down... I'm Dan Bardell here with my co-host George Ellick and Bet 365 Steve Freeth as we look to

preview the best of the weekend's Premier League action and the small matter of

2 FA Cup semi-finals as well.

Eric Ten Harg has agreed to deal in principle with Manchester United to become their

next manager in the summer as exclusively revealed by the athletics David

Ornstein earlier this week. Steve I'll come to you first is that the right

choice. Can I sit on the fence and say that time will tell? I personally I would have gone for Poccetino.

I think obviously the PSG gig is, I know you look at that front three and think, well, this job's easy.

I'd imagine it's quite hard to manage those

those egos there and ten harg of course is he's won a cup of

championships in in the Netherlands I think he's long odds on to win a third

one as well as well as well as some cups and I'm just waiting to see how

you know it'll go down in in that dressing room I'm quite excited also to see how he does

over here he's come from a well-run club as we talked about, you know, going to Manchester United this time.

Will he play some young players? We've seen James Garner do particularly well as George would be well aware at Nighting a forest this season.

Will he be getting a sniff? Will Rinaldo go in the summer?

Some big names could be leave from that dressing room, Pogba, Lingard, Matter,

so I'm interested to see how this Manchester United side will look next season.

We still rate them as fourth favourites Dan and they'll be around six to four to win a trophy

under 10 harg so we still fancy the biggest trophy drought in 40 years to continue next

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