Your trophy, Erik! Ten Hag already eyes next cup

Erik 10 Hag joked that he's "already connected to the adjacent cup" aft astir leaving the Carabao Cup trophy successful his quality league pursuing Manchester United's 2-0 triumph implicit Newcastle astatine Wembley connected Sunday.

Ten Hag brought the trophy into his post-match quality league earlier answering questions connected the game. After its conclusion, the Dutchman near his spot and headed for the exit, lone to beryllium reminded that helium had near the silverware behind.

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"I'm already connected to the adjacent cup, this 1 is in," helium joked arsenic helium returned to retrieve the trophy.

The Carabao Cup is Ten Hag's archetypal trophy since arriving astatine Old Trafford successful the summer. It ended a United drought that goes backmost to 2017, erstwhile Jose Mourinho lifted the Europa League trophy, and Ten Hag is hopeful his victory implicit Newcastle tin beryllium a springboard for bigger and amended things.

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"Every cupful is large and I person seen the past mates of weeks and months the meaning successful England and successful Manchester United successful our club, our staff, players, however they acquisition battles successful our club," Ten Hag said. "So it is simply a large triumph truthful we are truly blessed tonight. It has to beryllium an inspiration, and it volition assistance due to the fact that it volition bring adjacent much confidence.

"As agelong arsenic we don't spell implicit the apical with the confidence, support doing the close things, the close stuff, person that togetherness, support going and moving past we tin triumph adjacent more."

Ten Hag besides said helium spoke to Avram Glazer astatine the extremity of the crippled aft United's co-chairman made a astonishment sojourn to Wembley.

The Glazer household person invited offers to bargain the nine with some Qatari banker Sheikh Jassim Bin Hamad Al Thani and British billionaire Jim Ratcliffe making nationalist their involvement successful a takeover.

"[Glazer] was truly happy, truly blessed for the club, arsenic an owner," Ten Hag said. "So I truly wanted [him] to beryllium portion of it. He was successful the dressing room, precise bully helium was determination to amusement his intentions.

"I'm not progressive successful that process [a imaginable sale]. I deliberation the mode that helium is present shows you consciousness that helium is committed astir the process. I person to execute with this team, this dressing country and others astatine the nine are progressive successful the decisions astir ownership."

Goalkeeper David De Gea, who made immoderate important saves successful the triumph and passed nine fable Peter Schmeichel for astir cleanable sheets successful Man United history, praised his manager and added that helium felt the squad was backmost connected the close track.

"It's hard to picture and I'm affectional due to the fact that it's been truthful agelong without a trophy," De Gea said aft the match. "The commencement for a caller era. The squad is acceptable for everything. We showed contiguous we tin triumph trophies. So let's bask the infinitesimal but spell again. I consciousness the mentality of the squad is simply a winning one.

"We are winning games and radical are having an interaction from the bench, too. Let's support the momentum going."