Former Manchester United player Rio Ferdinand has been speaking live on his YouTube channel,, external following the news of Erik ten Hag’s sacking:

“I look at Ineos and I think about the way things panned out at the end of the season. Did they back themselves into a corner, with the way that they handled stuff in the summer?

“They’ll look back and go ‘we could have handled it better’. I think having a manager in place and actively looking for new managers and it becoming public knowledge, isn’t a great way to do it.

“It isn’t a great way to advertise for the job. It’s hard for the guy coming in, to come in under that cloud.

“It’s also even harder for the guy whose in the hot seat, still the manager and then they keep him as the manager and he has to face questions constantly about his standing within the organisation.

“It’s not easy to navigate through a situation that is so public, a club the size of Manchester United but if they’re honest, Ineos – they could have done that in a better way.”