Rio Ferdinand says Erik ten Hag has ‘publicly embarrassed’ Man Utd star | Football

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Sancho is currently training away from the first team after he hit back at Ten Hag’s criticism of his training levels

Ten Hag opted to make his unhappiness with Sancho known after United’s 3-1 defeat to Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium when the winger did not even travel with the squad to north London.

It remains unclear when Sancho, who went on to delete his response to Ten Hag, will return to first-team training and Ferdinand is concerned there is now no way back for the 23-year-old, who joined United in a £73 million deal from Borussia Dortmund in 2021.

‘The manager has gone, ‘this is my last chance’, I can’t get anything else out of him so I’ll make it public and see if that public embarrassment and his pride gets pressed enough where he goes, ‘I’m not having this’, and, ‘I’m coming back with a performance’.

‘He did it to Rashford. He was the talisman at the time, he was where we were getting all of our goal, he was on fire, at the top of his game, and the manager said for being late, which a lot of people would say, ‘oh, it’s only a meeting’, get on the bench. In terms of ego and pride and then more pressure, you’re thinking, ‘hold on a minute, I’m the man here’. The noise would’ve been so loud after that game [if United lost], it worked out for him.

‘I just think there have been players asked questions publicly or subliminally – Wan-Bissaka, for instance, he’s come back from almost the dead – I think the manager going public with Jadon was a big call and I think did the manager understand the risk with that?’

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