Telegraph Sport 07 May 2024 8:31am BST Former Manchester United players lined up to call for the club to sack manager Erik ten Hag after their disastrous season plumbed new depths on Monday

night with the 4-0 humilitation at Crystal Palace. Both Michael Owen and Paul Scholes said that Ten Hag’s time at United should be up following their latest embarrassment, which saw the club

suffer a record 13th defeat in the Premier League to leave them in eighth and at risk of missing out on European football next season. Owen said that United’s display was so dismal that the

hierarchy should make an immediate change to try and save what’s left of their season, while Scholes admitted the Selhurst Park defeat felt like “the final nail in the coffin” for the Dutch

year or not. “At some point you’ve got to make a decision, they’re going to get absolutely hammered by Manchester City [in the FA Cup final], they’re going to get annihilated, in fact,

Arsenal will smash them to bits at Old Trafford, Newcastle will probably beat them and I wouldn’t even fancy them going to Brighton either. They might not get anything out of the rest of the

season, playing like that. “I just wonder there’s just so much at stake, even if it’s only for four games, I wonder whether the board might just have to try to do something here and now and

be quite radical about it. “He cannot, simply cannot, manage this team next season. He’s not good enough. I’ve thought it for ages, and he’s just not good enough to manage Manchester

United.” United legend Paul Scholes, who won 11 titles at the club, said the 4-0 defeat should spell the end for Ten Hag. “It’s been a difficult one, I know Michael’s saying he’s felt it for

a long time and the signs have been there that it’s going to be difficult for him to do it next year,” said Scholes. “But tonight felt like the final nail in the coffin, really. “There was

a lack of know-how from the team, a lack of effort which is the big disappointing thing.” Casemiro endured a nightmare at Selhurst Park and Jamie Carragher, speaking on Sky Sports, said the

midfielder was finished at the elite level. “This has got nothing to do with playing out of position, that could be in a holding midfield role. That is embarrassing. They need to bring him

off, he has to come off the pitch,” he said. “He needs to call it a day at this level of football and move.” MAN UTD’S EMBARRASSMENT AT SELHURST PARK - WHAT THEY SAID CARRAGHER ON MAN UTD’S

SUPPORT: “Most teams’ away support is fantastic, but Manchester United’s are absolutely fantastic because their players don’t deserve that.” CARRAGHER ON THE RESULT: “No Manchester United

team should be losing 4-0 to Crystal Palace. I get the injury issues, but Manchester United’s Under-23s will have been coached, come through the academy and taught how to play.  > 

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6, 2024 “I think if Manchester United’s Under-23s played against Crystal Palace tonight, they still wouldn’t have lost 4-0 tonight.” CARRAGHER ON CASEMIRO: “I know he’s got kids on the bench

but I think Casemiro, deadly serious, should know himself tonight as an experienced player that he should only have another three games left at the top level. The next two league games and

the [FA] cup final. “And he should be thinking “I need to go to the MLS or Saudi”. I’m deadly serious. He’s aging, the people around him they need to tell him this has to stop. “We are

watching one of the greats of the modern time playing in one of the best midfields we’ve seen who dominated Europe. “But I always remember something when I retired myself, there was a saying

I always  remember as a footballer, “leave the football before the football leaves you.” ASHLEY YOUNG ON PALACE’S FIRST GOAL: “You look at the first goal, it’s crazy the way they’re set up.

Palace have got a throw-in in their own half. “It’s just one run from Olise. He sees the space and just runs into it. It’s shambolic, Casemiro I don’t know what he’s thinking, Olise sees

he’s going to make a challenge, he just walks past him, it’s so easy.” CHRISTIAN ERIKSEN AFTER FULL-TIME: “A big disappointment. We just had an off-day and we weren’t in it. “It is what it

is. We can’t really change the injury things. We have to do what we can on the pitch to change it. Today it didn’t matter who we played. Everyone could have done better. “I don’t know what

the conclusion is for how it went. We weren’t good enough. “We tried to do what we could but we were not good enough. We’ll take the blame as players.”