Ruud van Nistelrooy has despatched a heartfelt goodbye message to Manchester United and the membership’s supporters following the tip of his interim tenure.
The membership’s former prolific striker returned to Outdated Trafford over the summer season as a part of a serious structural reshuffling to Erik ten Hag’s backroom workers. When the Dutch coach was sacked on the finish of October after leaving United 14th within the Premier League desk, Van Nistelrooy was hurriedly ushered into the dugout whereas the membership sought a everlasting substitute.
Revered Portuguese coach Ruben Amorim was named as Ten Hag’s everlasting successor on 1 November, however solely on the situation that he would keep at Sporting CP till the worldwide break. Van Nistelrooy oversaw 4 matches throughout this uneasy hiatus, solely drawing at dwelling to Chelsea in between three victories, earlier than he was launched on Monday.
In a social media put up on Friday lunchtime, Van Nistelrooy wrote: “To everybody at Manchester United Soccer Membership, particularly the backroom workers, the gamers and the followers. I need to thanks from the underside of my coronary heart in your unbelievable efforts and assist.
“It has been a privilege and honour to characterize the membership as a participant, coach and supervisor, and I’ll at all times cherish the reminiscences we have now shared collectively.
“Man Utd will at all times have a particular place in my coronary heart, and I hope there are numerous extra glory days at Outdated Trafford very quickly – not solely as a result of I need the membership to do properly, however since you all deserve it!
“All the perfect and take care, Ruud.”
The previous PSV Eindhoven supervisor had made it abundantly clear that he would have preferred to remain at United and be a part of Amorim’s backroom workers. Oddly, there was no dialogue between the incoming coach and United’s interim earlier than Van Nistelrooy was launched on 11 November, the identical day that Amorim arrived on the membership’s coaching floor for the primary time.
Van Nistelrooy has already been linked with taking on at Championship promotion hopefuls Burnley, although Scott Parker stays in cost at Turf Moor after succeeding Vincent Kompany, who joined Bayern Munich, in the summertime.
