Ten Hag reveals ‘one plan’ to enhance Man United as key summer season beckons
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rik ten Hag has pledged to “fight” for additional Manchester United enhancements this summer season as he develops a plan for extra development regardless of the continued takeover uncertainty.
The Red Devils have loved a vastly encouraging first season below their well-liked Dutch boss, returning to the Premier League’s prime 4 and subsequent season’s Champions League courtesy of a third-placed home end.
United additionally ended their six-year trophy drought with victory over top-four rivals Newcastle at Wembley in February, later reaching the FA Cup ultimate earlier than being narrowly edged out by Treble-chasing enemies Manchester City on Saturday.
Ten Hag has achieved such spectacular progress towards the backdrop of a lot uncertainty over the possession scenario at Old Trafford, with nonetheless no most popular bidder to purchase the membership from the Glazer household introduced.
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe and Qatar’s Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad Al-Thani are the 2 events left within the race to take over at United, with experiences over latest days that the latter might submit a fifth bid so as to win the race.
Summer planning: Erik ten Hag desires Manchester United to construct on their swift progress
/ PAIt is hardly a great scenario from which to method an important summer season switch window, which opens subsequent week with United in want of key upgrades – significantly up entrance – so as to proceed their progress.
Quizzed on the takeover once more after United’s agonising FA Cup loss, Ten Hag advised reporters at Wembley: “I have only one plan: that is to improve this club and to improve this team. I will fight for [it]. I have my ideas and I already told the club what we have to do for that.
“But I’ve to work with my workers, with my gamers to be higher subsequent season. I believe on this second, I do not need to focus on [the takeover]. It’s about finalising the season.
“We have to be quiet, analysing the season, going to the depth, set the right conclusions, and then take action. It’s about that.
“The course of, throughout the season, we’re regularly making concerns, actions into course of. But now the season is completed, the conclusion total is we performed an excellent season.
“It’s not about the gap in the summer, it’s not about getting players in and they do well. It’s about we work all season and day by day to develop the team, progress the team.
“I’m very proud the place we got here from at first of the season. Remember Brentford and the Etihad additionally. Now, we confirmed at this time towards City the house win was not a coincidence and, on one other day, we might win this sport.”