{"id":181853,"date":"2024-05-13T20:22:30","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T20:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/05\/13\/gareth-southgate-sets-record-straight-on-man-utd-links\/"},"modified":"2024-05-13T20:22:30","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T20:22:30","slug":"gareth-southgate-sets-record-straight-on-man-utd-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/05\/13\/gareth-southgate-sets-record-straight-on-man-utd-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Gareth Southgate sets record straight on Man Utd links \u2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Gareth Southgate insists he has had no conversations over replacing Erik ten Hag as Manchester United manager this summer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With Sir Jim Ratcliffe heading into his first summer transfer window as co-owner, the INEOS chief has been tipped to cut ties with Ten Hag after a poor season which has left the Dutchman on the brink of overseeing United\u2019s lowest-ever Premier League finish.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple reports have named Southgate as a desired replacement, with some even claiming he is\u00a0United\u2019s top target, but the England boss insists his focus remains solely on this summer\u2019s European Championships.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not a big gambling man. They can make their odds but it\u2019s not a conversation that\u2019s been had with me,\u201d he told\u00a0<em>ITV<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve got one thing to focus on and that\u2019s having as successful a tournament with England as possible. Everything else is a complete irrelevance to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked whether he would be interested in a return to club management, Southgate stressed: \u201cIf I start talking about that, then I\u2019m already distracted from what I\u2019m doing, so I think the country would expect that my focus is on England, and rightly so.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/01hxrjtgpr1jxm7rnp2s.jpg\" alt=\"Erik ten Hag\" title=\"Erik ten Hag\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Ten Hag is under pressure \/ Sebastian Frej\/MB Media\/GettyImages<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<p>In a separate interview with\u00a0<em>BBC<\/em>, Southgate once again played down the links to United.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, it\u2019s not an issue and it never has been,\u201d he stressed. \u201cI have to deliver a successful tournament for England. There\u2019s enough work involved in that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere will always be speculation about managers, because if you lose a couple of games, you\u2019re in trouble \u2013 you win a couple of games and it is a different agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Southgate\u2019s England contract runs until the end of 2024 and reports suggest the English FA are keen to tie him down to an extension, but any talks may be watched closely by United as they prepare to make a decision on Ten Hag\u2019s future this summer.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-648-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-862893\"  \/><\/figure>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 1 --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gareth Southgate insists he has had no conversations over replacing Erik ten Hag as Manchester United manager this summer. With Sir Jim Ratcliffe heading into his first summer transfer window as co-owner, the INEOS chief has been tipped to cut ties with Ten Hag after a poor season which has left the Dutchman on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":181856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gareth Southgate sets record straight on Man Utd links \u2013 - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/05\/13\/gareth-southgate-sets-record-straight-on-man-utd-links\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gareth Southgate sets record straight on Man Utd links \u2013 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Gareth Southgate insists he has had no conversations over replacing Erik ten Hag as Manchester United manager this summer. 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