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Ten Hag had been handed a contract extension in the summer after a post-season review before being sacked in October.
“I know we get criticism in the press but we do need to challenge the cost of running this club because what I want to be free for us to do is buy really good footballers, not spend so much of the money on infrastructure,” he said.
“We can’t run
Five-time Premier League winner Patrice Evra says the future at Manchester United is “not bright”, with his old club having been “in a chaos” for more than a decade.
The Old Trafford side last won the league title in 2013, their last season under legendary manager Sir Alex Ferguson, and sit 12th in the table under current boss Erik ten Hag.
Evra left a year after Ferguson and the former
Sir Alex Ferguson will leave his role as Manchester United ambassador at the end of the season.
Ferguson has been paid a multi-million pound sum by United since his retirement as manager in 2013.
During that period the 82-year-old has acted as a global ambassador and club director. He has been a regular at games and retains a seat in the directors’ box.
Club sources say Ferguson, United’s most successful
Ten Hag has won two trophies in two years at Old Trafford, but an impressive 2-1 victory against Manchester City in May’s FA Cup final proved vital to the Dutchman keeping his job.
Ten Hag ended the club’s six-year wait for silverware with victory against Newcastle in the Carabao Cup final in his first season at the club, also achieving a third-place finish in the Premier League.
But his second
Former Arsenal chairman Sir Chips Keswick has died at the age of 84.
A lifelong supporter of the club, he joined the board in 2005 and accepted the role of chairman in 2013 when Peter Hill-Wood stepped down.
Keswick, who made his name in the banking industry and was a director of the Bank of