Ruud Gullit is concerned that Erik ten Hag may be forced to make a major choice about the future of Manchester United goalkeeper Andre Onana.

Following a rocky start to his United career, the Cameroon international appeared to have turned a corner with a good performance in last weekend’s 3-0 triumph over Everton at Goodison Park.

Onana, on the other hand, failed to capitalize on that performance, committing two more egregious errors that cost his team dearly in last night’s tense 3-3 tie with Galatasaray.

Ten Hag defended his £50 million summer signing from Inter and accepted responsibility for a loss that left his side’s prospects of reaching the last 16 hanging by the barest of threads.

Gullit feels Ten Hag will think differently in private and should confront a player who continues to make concerningly frequent errors.

‘He knows these are terrible blunders, he knows that,’ he told beIN Sport. He’s going to have a private conversation with his goalkeeper and ask him, “What the hell are you doing, what’s going on?”

‘Perhaps he needs to make a decision, you never know. The issue is that you want to instill as much confidence in your goalkeeper as possible. Not right away after making a mistake. It’s difficult with goalkeepers. He was in a bad predicament.

‘He saved them once, but I feel for him because I know he’s a terrific goalkeeper, but he cost them a lot of games,’ says the coach.

Ten Hag said after the game that his team is surrendering too many goals, but he refused to blame Onana, despite the goalkeeper’s shaky positioning and decision making.

‘We also scored shortly after each other,’ claimed United boss Ten Hag. ‘It’s about the period when you are leading, when you are 2-0 up and you have to manage the game. Not so simple.

‘We give out free kicks and need to defend them better twice. I also have to mention Hakim. I’m sure he’s brilliant. He is exceptional. It’s difficult to defend free kicks as well. In such cases, we must exert greater control.

“It’s always about incidents, details, and some incidents we can handle better.”

‘As a team, we must learn from it because we are allowing far too many goals, which is both unnecessary and avoidable.

‘I am confident that our team is competent and capable of handling this, and that we will perform admirably.

‘What I love is our improvement and the way we play football. We dominated the game, scoring numerous goals – it was all about strategy, ingenuity, being proactive, and brave. That pleases me.’