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The Sir Alex Ferguson approach Erik ten Hag can follow to avoid Mourinho-inflicted USA nightmare

Manchester United's return to the United States in 2023 will be their first tour across the pond since the disastrous Jose Mourinho trip five summers ago.

United's Portuguese manager cut a miserable figure in 2018, declaring he'd learnt nothing about his squad, criticising referees, telling fans they'd wasted their money and watching the Reds lose 4-1 to rivals Liverpool. It was a nightmare from start to finish.

But America does not mean awful. While Mourinho's trip was marred in misery, Erik ten Hag could do worse than cast a look back to 2010. Then, under Sir Alex Ferguson, United went Stateside and laid the groundwork for a Premier League title win and a Champions League final appearance.

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United had not visited the States since 2004 when they returned under Ferguson off the back of a season where they finished second in the Premier League, lost in the last eight of the Champions League but won the League Cup. It was something of a surprise that Ferguson's men had waited so long to cross the pond.

Following the 2004 trip, the legendary Scottish manager declared he 'couldn't be more pleased' with how the trip went, so it was no surprise that Ferguson was in similarly high spirits about the prospect of returning.

"It's a very easy country to start with. Of course to speak the language is always a help," he said on arrival. "It's a very comfortable country, I think, for a football team to go there and the facilities are very good there and improving all the time. If you see the stadiums we are playing in are fantastic. There is a big drive [in the United States to make] soccer, as they call it, into a more essential part of the American sport because as we

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