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'On a human level, it's really hard not to feel sorry for him'

New York Times journalist Rory Smith tells BBC Radio 5 Live's Monday Night Club that he has sympathy for Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag amid more media speculation about his future at Old Trafford.

"Having a professional disappointment be dragged out so endlessly must be humiliating and agonising. On a human level, it's really hard not to feel sorry for him.

"He has not fulfilled what he was meant to do at Manchester United and it's hard to see a way in which it all ends OK and he gets what he wants from the job."

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