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Mikel Arteta is up early to do his pre-Champions League news conference. And for that we thank him.

The Arsenal boss will be answering questions at around 10am this morning, looking ahead to his side's home game with Paris Saint-Germain on Tuesday.

The Gunners' opening tie in the new-look competition - the league phase - ended in a 0-0 draw Italian side Atalanta. David Raya's double save the only real moment of drama.

Nigel Reo-Coker
Former West Ham midfielder on the Football Daily podcast

You see a lack of connectivity between Erik ten Hag and these big players. If you are talking about Manchester United you have to be able to put them in the same kind of league as size of club and history as the great clubs around the world like Real Madrid. What is it that these other managers can do and get their big players to perform on big games?

I feel for me when I look at this Manchester United side there is no connection between these top players and the manager. I don't feel they believe in the manager any more. I don't feel that they actually believe in themselves that they can win football matches.

All of that does stem from the manager. It is your job to motivate these players, it is your job to get them to perform at the highest level and he is struggling to get these players to perform at any kind of level.

Paul

The wait for a first Premier League win goes on for Ipswich, but manager Kieran McKenna thought his side, on the balance of chances, created the better openings.

Over in the Villa corner, Unai Emery conceded it was a "difficult match" at Portman Road but ultimately a draw was a "fair" result.

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Sunday's earlier game gave us a treat at Portman Road as Liam Delap scored twice - one being an superb individual strike - to earn Ipswich Town a draw against Aston Villa.

Villa were aiming to go level on points with leaders Liverpool and looked to have achieved that target thanks to Morgan Rogers' equaliser - his first goal of the season - and England striker Ollie Watkins' fourth league goal in three games.

However, Delap's intervention secured a fourth successive Premier League draw for Ipswich and denied Unai Emery's side a third top-flight comeback in a row.

Ipswich have climbed to 15th in the table, while Villa are sitting in fifth spot, level on 13 points with Chelsea.

Tim

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Erik ten Hag has dominated the back pages this morning with quotes from a question asking the United boss whether the team would be better with a different manager.

Commenting first that he was "not thinking about that", he then added: "We made the decision to stay together as ownership and a leadership group in the summer. We made the decision from after a clear review what we have to improve as an organisation and how we want to construct a squad.

"We knew it would take some time because of how the window went. Some players were late in like [Manuel] Ugarte. We still have some injuries. We will get better. We need some time.

"We are all one page together, the ownership, the leadership group, the staff and the players’ group as well. I don’t have that concern."

In the cutthroat world of football, needing "some time" when a decent chunk of money has already been spent is usually a recipe for your P45. So, realistically, how long can Ten Hag hang on to his role at Old Trafford?

Hit the left thumb if you think the United hierarchy will stick it out and keep Ten Hag until the end of the season.

Or click the right thumb if you feel the Dutchman might be gone by the end of October.

One extreme to the other.

Nigel Reo-Coker
Former West Ham midfielder on the Football Daily podcast

I was thinking to myself, what can be said about Manchester United that hasn't already been said?' There is no identity, there isn't any culture, there is everything that does not represent what Manchester United once was as a football club. That is the scary part of it.

I don't see any leaders on the pitch for them, I don't see representation of what it means to where that shirt. It seems we keep saying the same thing again an again.

There is only one outcome left really and it has to be change. Something really needs to change at the club and the performances. It's funny, Erik ten Hag says his players are great characters, how are we not seeing these great characters when it matters when they put on the shirt and go and represent Manchester United on the football pitch?

J, Oxford

Simon Stone
BBC Sport's chief football news reporter

I call this ‘tin hat time’.

Manchester United suffer a bad (really bad) result, everyone has an opinion (negative) and the club finds itself under siege. It’s time to put on the tin hats and ignore the noise.

What do they do?

I am not getting any sense there will be a knee-jerk reaction. United want to portray a sense of calm.

But clearly Thursday’s trip to Porto and Sunday’s Premier League match at Aston Villa offer both an opportunity to reset and a chance a rubbish situation could get even worse.

This is an old and familiar situation at Old Trafford. But the people in charge are new. This is their first big test since concluding Erik ten Hag was the right man to stay in charge.

Leadership starts at the top. This is the point at which actions speak louder than words.

John Murray
Commentator on BBC Radio 5 Live

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It was an early season mid-table match but it was loaded with pressure.

But while Manchester United crumbled, Tottenham rose to the occasion. And in a classic case of Ange Postecoglou sticking to his principles, Maddison and Kulusevski, caused problem after problem for Manchester United which helped to force the home errors.

Legend has it that in Sir Alex Ferguson’s time he would motivate his team for matches against Spurs by simply saying ‘lads, it’s Tottenham…’

Postecoglou’s Tottenham are made of sterner stuff.

Disgusting and disgraceful.

Embarrassing and rock bottom.

That's the type of performance which gets the manager the sack.

Qarabag gave Spurs a better game.

The pundits did not hold back when handing out criticism for Manchester United's lacklustre performance on Sunday, with very little positives pulled from the wreckage of a consecutive Premier League defeat.

Harry Poole reflects on United's post-mortem here

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Michael Brown
Former Manchester City and Tottenham midfielder on BBC Radio 5 Live

We all got excited by the takeover, the group that were involved, the progression of director of football and new chief executives from experience and walks of life. But they also have to be allowed to do their job. Right throughout the company and football club, they have got to be able to do that.

Certain owners can't let people do things, they have to control everything. If that happens in this football club like it has been for some time they are not going to be able to take it forward, even under a new tenure. It has to be given to the specialist roles and I haven't really seen that in this moment in time.

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Chopper Reed, excellent name, but some might say controversial opinion?

Former England boss Gareth Southgate's name is in the mix to replace Erik ten Hag, should the axe fall on the Dutchman.

The other favourites along with Southgate to be linked with the role are current United assistant manager Ruud Van Nistelrooy and ex-Chelsea and Bayern Munich boss Thomas Tuchel.

Chopper Reed, Sydney Australia

Phil McNulty
BBC Sport chief football writer

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Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag wore the haunted, hunted expression of someone reaching the end of the road after Tottenham Hotspur inflicted abject embarrassment at Old Trafford.

Since United co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe and the club's restructured hierarchy eventually chose to keep faith with Ten Hag in the summer, he has been placed in a position where he is only one bad defeat away from a crisis and unforgiving scrutiny.

By that measure, the 54-year-old is running out of time after a United performance that was as shambolic, incompetent and indisciplined as any he has presided over in his tenure.

Winning the EFL Cup 18 months ago and last season's dramatic FA Cup final victory against Manchester City, which effectively kept Ten Hag in a job, have been the highs among many lows – but it does not get much lower than this.

Read Phil's full story here

John Murray
Commentator on BBC Radio 5 Live

Well that went spectacularly badly for Manchester United. And it is impossible to conclude anything other than that the clock must be ticking loudly for Erik ten Hag.

Last season the United manager had a case when he frequently highlighted his lengthy list of injuries. But around £200m was spent on new recruits in the summer, and it’s now in the region of £600m in total on signings under Ten Hag.

The team that started against Tottenham was close to, if not actually, the strongest he has at his disposal. His coaching staff has been radically overhauled too, since the end of last season.

Ten Hag again talked of how it still all needs time, but the thousands who left Old Trafford early must have been contemplating or debating whether the manager’s time is already up.

Martin, Derby

Rob, Manchester