Liverpool have blueprint for Manchester United Erik ten Hag sacking FSG know all too well

Erik ten Hag is under pressure again at Manchester United after a miserable start to the season. Liverpool's biggest rivals are in another crisis with Ten Hag's team currently sitting 12th in the Premier League table.

It follows an eighth-placed finish in the top flight last season with May's FA Cup final win appearing to keep him in post. But his situation is beginning to feel eerily similar to that of Brendan Rodgers at Anfield nine years ago.

Just like at Old Trafford this summer, new additions were made to Rodgers' coaching staff in 2015 with Gary McAllister, Sean O'Driscoll and Dutch coach Pep Lijnders joining his backroom team. Needless to say, it didn't work and Rodgers was gone by October.

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It's a situation which has been referenced by Reds legend Jamie Carragher before. “For Rodgers, it proved a stay of execution," Carragher wrote in August for the Telegraph.

"He could not survive the next poor sequence of results as those pushing for change felt it was a matter of when, not if, he was replaced as soon as the ideal candidate became available – as Jurgen Klopp did during the international break in October 2015.

“Ten Hag is in danger of entering the same territory, despite being given a new contract. If results and performances do not get better, criticism instantly resurfaces. Heading into a third season, it is not feasible for Ten Hag to still sound like a manager at the start of a rebuilding process.”

History now appears to be repeating itself at the Reds' fierce rivals. Ten Hag looks a dead man walking with another appalling United performance in Sunday's 3-0 defeat at home to Tottenham.

United look like a team who have no belief or understanding in what the manager is asking them to do. And that only leads to one thing.

The Red Devils have two tricky away fixtures before the October international break against Porto and Aston Villa. Ten Hag will know that the chances of him celebrating Christmas in Manchester are looking increasingly bleak.