Erik ten Hag has already shown Manchester United's trip to Spain this week will be no lark.
With most of his first team away in Qatar representing their nations in the World Cup, Ten Hag has taken an unorthodox Manchester United squad to Spain for a spot of warm weather training ahead of domestic football's return in late December. Only 11 players who have made the trip can be considered regular first-teamers and three of those are goalkeepers and one is the newly promoted Alejandro Garnacho.
The rest of the 29-man strong squad is made up of the club's talented prospects, only six of which have any senior minutes to their name. It would be easy for the manager to take it easy during the break, focus on getting his few first-teamers up to the right fitness levels and pay little mind to the youngsters there to make up the numbers.
