Secret agent Jadon Sancho has been giving tips on how to stop Erling Haaland reveals Erik ten Hag 

Jadon Sancho might be Erik ten Hag’s secret weapon to cease Erling Haaland as Manchester United journey to the Etihad buoyed by success on the worldwide stage.

Ten Hag has promised he’s completed his personal homework on Haaland who turned down a transfer to Previous Trafford to hitch Metropolis in the summertime and has scored 14 targets in 10 matches for his new membership.

However the United boss acknowledges he’s approached Sancho for additional marginal positive factors conscious that the winger spent 18 months with Haaland at Dortmund with the pair scoring 81 targets between them (Haaland 58, Sancho 23).

Bosses Pep Guardiola and Erik ten Hag go head-to-head within the Manchester derby on Sunday 

Ten Hag revealed he has been chatting to Jadon Sancho to be taught extra about Erling Haaland

‘It’s our job as workers to have a look at somebody like Haaland prematurely. If a person makes an enormous contribution, we have to analyse them,’ stated the Premier League’s newly-crowned supervisor of the month.

‘However after all you speak along with your gamers as effectively. When somebody has performed prior to now with a selected opponent, like Sancho and Haaland, you ask him.’

Requested if he was disenchanted Haaland didn’t think about a transfer to Previous Trafford and whether or not it mirrored the perfect gamers on this planet don’t need to be part of United, Ten Hag retorted: ‘We’ve them already in.

‘We’ve gamers who’ve potential to be the perfect, and a few are already there.

Sancho and Haaland had been team-mates at Borussia Dortmund earlier than transferring to play in England

‘We’ve a world champion (Raphael Varane) and gamers with the largest titles (Casemiro, Cristiano Ronaldo) so you possibly can say they’re the perfect on this planet.

‘Within the window, I used to be in touch with lots of gamers and also you felt Man United was a very engaging membership for them. So I’m not involved in regards to the level about Haaland.’ Regardless of the troubles of membership captain Harry Maguire with England final week, nearly all of United gamers impressed for his or her international locations in the course of the break.

‘We adopted all of the gamers and virtually all did effectively,’ Ten Hag stated. ‘Diogo (Dalot) scored twice for Portugal, Bruno Fernandes scored and had two robust video games Casemiro performed very well and Fred did his job for Brazil.

The Norwegian celebrity has scored 14 targets in all competitions for Metropolis thus far this marketing campaign

‘Luke Shaw undoubtedly performed actually robust for England towards Germany.’ Ten Hag labored as a part of Pep Guardiola’s workers at Bayern Munich earlier than he went on to make his personal title as a primary with Ajax.

‘In fact I do know him however we labored collectively eight years in the past and as a supervisor, one of many major issues is you all the time need to develop. That’s what he has completed and hope I did too,’ stated Ten Hag.

Maguire misses out on Sunday with harm however Marcus Rashford and Sancho may begin after being overlooked of the most recent England squad.