Manchester United manager Ten Hag believes in the talent of his young squad

Ten Hag explained, "We have made the conscious decision to deploy young players in the last two seasons. While I understand the high expectations associated with Manchester United due to its rich history, our choices have been influenced by financial constraints and other limitations we have to work within."

"We made a choice for young players, and the young players are not in the level, you can't expect them, we have to improve them, and they have to improve themselves. And we have to find a team that can be successful on a consistent base. And this team, in the last two years, they've shown they can do it, on occasions, and on occasions we can win trophies, but we have to get more consistent."

On his squad, Ten Hag continued: "First, we are where we are now, with this squad. But, I think with all the restrictions we've had, we've done good work. And now we have to work with the squad, we have now to improve the squad. As I just made arguments: we have a good squad.

"We have a good squad, but with young players. We have to improve, we have to improve the team. And then we have targets, we have high targets, we want to achieve those targets for this season, but also the years beyond."