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Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag says the FA Cup final demands the focus of the team and himself and bats away questions about his future at the club.

Manchester United have reportedly decided to sack Erik ten Hag regardless of the outcome of Saturday's FA Cup final.

Podcast All episodes Play on Apple Spotify According to The Guardian, United co-owners Sir Jim Ratcliffe and Ineos have decided to dispense with Ten Hag even if United wins on Saturday. Ten Hag started life in the small Dutch town of Oldenzaal, just outside Enschede, not far from the Dutch-German border, where his parents founded a family business - the ten Hag real estate agency.

Manchester United have today confirmed their new manager: Erik Ten Hag - a man whose life has been tinged by tragedy having lost friends to a plane crash, suicide and a heart attack 'I will never forget Edwin standing on my doorstep to tell me that a plane had crashed with Andy and his mother on board,' Ten Hag recalled.

An alcoholic and a gambler, he stole from his team-mates and was sent to prison for robbery. He self-harmed and his brother recalls how Weber would injure his knees and ankles with iron rods to make sure he couldn't play. Another member of Twente's youth-team squad, Wilfried Elzinga, saw his career cruelly cut short by injury.Ten Hag's philosophy has been heavily influenced by his mentor and former youth-team coach Epi Drost, who died of a heart attack aged 49 in 1995.

The real estate and financial services business is headquartered back in Enschede and its office - one of the biggest buildings in the town - bears the Ten Hag family name. Growing up, Ten Hag was a football obsessive, according to his friends, and rejected the chance to join his brothers - Michel and Rico - in running the family business set up by their parents, Hennie and Joke. Pictured: the ten Hag group offices in Enschede

Ten Hag will leave Ajax at the end of the season having guided the club to two Eredivisie titles, with a third possibly on its way this year, and a Champions League semi final in 2019Shortly before Christmas 2016, Ten Hag was then announced as the new boss at Ajax and joined the club on January 1, 2017.

After a strong first season in charge after joining from Ajax, which saw Ten Hag guide United to a third place finish in the Premier League and Carabao Cup success, they have slipped backwards.

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