Man Utd's Erik ten Hag is third-favourite to be the first Premier League boss to go

Erik ten Hag has come under fire just two games into his Manchester United reign.

While everyone knew that the Ten Hag revolution was going to take time to come into effect at Old Trafford, nobody expected them to lose their opening two Premier League games against Brighton & Hove Albion and Brentford.

But alas, here we are, living in a world where United were stapled to the bottom of the table on zero points having followed up their opening day defeat with a 4-0 capitulation at the Brentford Community Stadium.

And although the vast majority of the blame is being laid at the feet of the club owners, United fans are also acutely aware that Ten Hag isn’t completely free of blame amidst the two defeats.

After all, the experiment with Christian Eriksen as a number six proved to be disastrous against Brentford, while the persistence with Harry Maguire above Raphael Varane has left everyone scratching their heads.

Marry that to sticking with Fred and Scott McTominay in the Brighton defeat as well as the decision to keep David de Gea as number one and it’s easy to see why Ten Hag has come in for criticism too.

In fact, the pelters have rained in to such an extent that Paddy Power caught everybody off guard on Twitter by paying out on Ten Hag to be the first Premier League manager to be sacked this season.

Now, while we’re acutely aware that publicity will have played a role in that mid-Brentford-defeat decision, it’s nevertheless a damning indication of just how quickly Ten Hag’s stock has dropped in such a short period of time.

Bear in mind, for example, that when we looked at the odds for the first manager to go back in June that Ten Hag was ranked as the joint-fifteenth-most-likely departure at long odds of 66/1.

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