According to ESPN, Ten Hag is confident he will not be sacked at Tuesday’s executive meeting, but his job hangs in the balance after United’s woeful start to the new campaign. Thomas Tuchel, unemployed after leaving Bayern Munich last summer, is reportedly under consideration should the beleaguered Dutchman be dismissed.

What was supposed to be the week from hell for Erik ten Hag has ended in two battling away draws that neither force the hand of the Manchester United hierarchy nor offer them the indisputable trigger point that compels them to make a change.