SAME PAGE for iron-fisted Erik

ERIKTEN HAG has booted Cristiano Ronaldo out of Manchester United and given Jadon Sancho time off to get his mind in the right place.

- 

He's the manager who responded to a humiliating surrender at Brentford by ordering his players into training the next day - only to then join them on an eight-and-a-half-mile punishment run in searing summer temperatures.

The Dutchman has an iron fist inside a velvet glove, and in just seven months has turned the Premier League's biggest underachievers back into a force to be reckoned with.

For all the debate about talent, tactics and technicians, the Dutchman, 53, didn’t take long to realise the biggest thing missing at Old Trafford was team spirit.

The subject of Ronaldo remains off limits because the Portuguese’s ego no longer casts a shadow in the dressing room. But as Ten Hag says: We must all be in this together.