After receiving a close look at the troubles at his former club in the previous two weeks, Manchester United icon Dwight Yorke has issued a warning to incoming manager Erik ten Hag.
Yorke, a member of Man Utd’s famed 1998/99 treble-winning squad, says he’s lately spent time at Old Trafford and believes Ten Hag faces a significant challenge based on his observations.
The Red Devils had a nightmare season, finishing with their lowest points total in a Premier League season, with the players expressing their dissatisfaction several times on and off the field.
Yorke appears to have noticed some of these issues as well, as he warns Ten Hag about the magnitude of the job ahead of him as he prepares to relocate from Ajax.
As reported by the Daily Mirror, he said:
“We are nowhere near where we are supposed to be, especially with the players that we have in the squad at the moment. I spent the last two weeks there and had some more insight into looking where the club is and why we are in that position. He has got some major surgery to repair there, there’s work that needs to be done.”
Manchester United ended 35 points behind Premier League champions Manchester City, who pipped Liverpool to the title by a point, with United’s points being not enough to give them a place in the UCL next season.
Ten Hag is United’s seventh permanent manager since Alex Ferguson’s farewell season in 2013 when the team last won a league title. It will be a big task for the Dutch manager as he has been not facing such tighter issues with Ajax.
Also, Yorke, who also played for Aston Villa, Blackburn Rovers, Birmingham City, and Sunderland in England, was named head coach of Macarthur FC in Australia earlier this month.
