With his Breaking News: selection for the next Manchester United manager, Richard Keys stuns the studio. “Not a possibility!”

Erik ten Hag, the manager of Manchester United, is facing mounting pressure as his team continues to perform poorly in the Premier League and Champions League.

The beIN Sports panelists did not respond to Richard Keys’ recommendation of former Liverpool player Xabi Alonso as the next Manchester United manager in the way he had hoped.

With Bayer Leverkusen this season, Alonso has been outstanding. The former Spanish midfielder helped the German team escape relegation and advance to the European playoffs the previous season. Now, with 13 games played without a loss, his team leads the Bundesliga.

But in Erik ten Hag’s second season as manager, Manchester United has regressed. Due to Ten Hag’s team’s defeat against Newcastle on Saturday night, which left them in seventh place in the Premier League and with little chance of making out of what appeared to be a respectable Champions League group, Keys felt compelled to advocate for Alonso.

“United are no longer in the position where if top players become available they’re going to sign for United – they’re just not,” Keys commented. “They can’t go out and do what they used to do, which was sign the best player on the team just to weaken the opposition. For a while, they could maybe include them in a squad of 22, and in that case, they might have been able to contribute.

“In my opinion, Manchester United ought to proceed to Leverkusen right now and tell Xabi Alonso that they would like him to come to Old Trafford, that we will provide him with Saudi league money, and that we will guarantee him five years—a promise Fergie made when he initially joined the team. You have five years to figure this out for us, whatever else occurs.

“He, for me, is the individual, the coach, the person that just might be able to get something going,” Keys explained. Nevertheless, as Keys continued his argument, pundit and former Jason McAteer was having none of it, murmuring “no chance” and adamant that “he won’t go there.”