Erik ten Hag explains what he’s immediately feeling at Carrington amid pre-season return, pundit makes outrageous prediction

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Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag has expressed his positive feeling as the team begin preparing for next season.

The 2024/25 season is in our sights. In just over one month’s time, Manchester United will contest the Community Shield.

Prior to this Wembley showpiece, Manchester United have five pre-season games scheduled, with the first kicking off next week.

Players have already returned for pre-season, and manager Erik ten Hag is feeling positive.

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Erik ten Hag feeling positive for 2024/25

Erik ten Hag is getting to work with the players he has available, and there are positive signs behind the scenes.

Training ground Carrington is undergoing renovation work, instructed by Ineos, and the Dutchman is encouraged by this.

Ten Hag signed a new contract extension last week, and he said he is bursting with positivity upon returning to the club.

Speaking to club media, Ten Hag explained he is determined to take Manchester United back to the top of English football.

He explained: “We’re working on this. I said it, and it’s a fact: United didn’t win, for over six years, a trophy. Now we’ve won two, but we are up for more and for higher titles, like the English title and even more, like going into Europe.

“That’s a process that takes time, and we’ll work on it, but I know with the set-up at the club, with the changes to the structure, and the changes to infrastructure here around Carrington, we will be ready for the future. We will improve.

“You feel it here, it gives a new energy, it gives a new dynamic and that will help us to achieve our targets. In the short-term, it stays the same: we want to win every game, and we have seen we are capable of beating everyone.”

Pundit Simon Jordan predicts Ten Hag won’t last

Erik ten Hag is feeling positive now – but once the reality of the season begins, will it last? Both of his first two seasons have got off to challenging starts.

We noted how Ten Hag’s contract extension was a lukewarm vote of confidence, with just one year added to his existing deal. Sporting director Dan Ashworth has challenged the team to be more consistent.

Pundit Simon Jordan has told Talksport he believes Ten Hag won’t last the season.

He said: “They have given him a contract that they are able to give him. There’s no glowing endorsement, there’s no Oh Ten Hag is now in situ and he will dictate the contractual terms.

“He is an employee, he gets given an opportunity to have his contract extended. That’s it. And he will be gone by January.”

Ten Hag defied many predictions with plenty expecting him to be gone after the 2023/24 season. The Dutchman will have to keep on proving his critics wrong.