"Every season you review it and then we will see where we are in the project and the things that we have to change," said Ten Hag ahead of today's FA Cup final between Manchester United and Manchester City at Wembley. For many, the question of change revolves around the dugout.
It's been a week in which Mauricio Pochettino emerged as a potential successor, following his dismissal by Chelsea, and where interest from Stamford Bridge in Kieran McKenna may add another dimension to United's potential hunt. The spectres of Graham Potter and Gareth Southgate, who both have their admirers among the new United hierarchy, have loomed large for months. But Ten Hag has ignored them.
If nothing else, the Dutchman is good at message discipline. "I am just focusing on this game as I do on every game," he said, shrugging off talk that, like Louis van Gaal, he could bid farewell to United in an FA Cup final, even if it is won. Yet there are times when his chosen messages seem retrofitted.
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