The endgame of Louis van Gaal’s brief, benighted tenure at Manchester United bears the eeriest parallels to what Erik ten Hag is enduring now. Every alarm signal from 2016 – the ineffectual signings, the peevish press conferences, the constant search for excuses in the injury list – finds almost an exact replica eight years later. In fact, the ordeals of these two Dutch managers are such mirror images that the duo could yet share the least enviable distinction of all, in finding themselves kicke
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Chelsea have not yet ruled out a move for Roberto De Zerbi as they work through the club’s four-man shortlist of candidates to succeed Mauricio Pochettino as head coach.