Manchester United have banned several media outlets including the Manchester Evening News and the Mirror from attending Erik ten Hag’s press conference in the build-up to hosting Chelsea on Wednesday. It comes in the aftermath of yet another disappointing week for the Red Devils. However pressure begins to grow on the manager.
United are still seventh in the table with 24 points. They’re five more than 10th-place Chelsea. Moreover, the form is very bad of the team in the league. However it was before a poor performance and defeat at Newcastle on Saturday. It left them on the brink of Champions League elimination and with little to boast about. Now, with reports suggesting that Ten Hag has lost the confidence of his players, the club have responded.
Manchester United have banned some media outlets:
“We’re taking action against a number of news organisations today, not for publishing stories we don’t like. But for doing so without contacting us first to give us the opportunity to comment, challenge or contextualise,” a statement from United read. “We believe this is an important principle to defend and we hope it can lead to a re-set in the way we work together.”
On Tuesday morning the Manchester Evening News reported that Ten Hag had begun to lose the confidence of those around him. However that included players and staff with his methods being doubted. United have already lost ten games this season. This was the most at this stage of a campaign since relegation in 1973/74.
United insist that the issue is not the story itself but that the club were not approached on a multiple-sourced story. They had already handed out a ban last month to another newspaper. After it was written that Ten Hag was ‘on thin ice.’
The MEN article goes on to state that a dressing room source described the situation as ‘so bad’. While the senior players ‘expressed concern at the direction of the club.’ It has also been claimed that some players are ‘startled’ by the signings made by Ten Hag. It also included that of young striker Rasmus Hojlund.
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