Former United striker Van Nistelrooy is on the coaching staff at Old Trafford and the Mirror report he “will be offered the job on an interim basis if Ten Hag is sacked”. But Van Nistelrooy is said to be worried about being seen as betraying Ten Hag, who brought him back to United in the summer as part of his backroom team.

Former Manchester United striker Ruud van Nistelrooy has been linked with potentially replacing Erik ten Hag at Old Trafford.

Erik ten Hag must feel like the old man in the Monty Python sketch who complains “I’m not dead yet” as he is thrown onto a cart of bodies during the bubonic plague.Just about everyone is