Erik ten Hag

Manchester United have confirmed that Erik ten Hag will be their new manager on contract to June 2025, with the option to extend for a further year.

Ten Hag said: “It is a great honour to be appointed manager of Manchester United and I am hugely excited by the challenge ahead. Manchester United have confirmed that Erik ten Hag will be their new manager on contract to June 2025, with the option to extend for a further year. His team lost the 2022 cup final to PSV last Sunday but are on course to secure another league title.

The Dutchman has seen his stock rise over recent years following his appointment as Ajax boss in 2017. He led the Eredivisie side to the semi-finals of the ...

“We wish Erik the best of luck as he focuses on achieving a successful end to the season at Ajax and look forward to welcoming him to Manchester United this summer.” "I know the history of this great club and the passion of the fans, and I am absolutely determined to develop a team capable of delivering the success they deserve. As a player, the 52-year-old amassed over 300 appearances as a defender, the majority coming over the course of three spells with Twente in The Netherlands.

Erik ten Hag is excited by the challenge of bringing success back to stuttering Manchester United when he takes over as manager at the end of the season.

“We owe Erik a lot of thanks for what he has achieved with Ajax so far, but we are not done yet. “That clarity is important. “He is going to make the step to one of the biggest clubs in the world, in a fantastic league. “We wish Erik the best of luck as he focuses on achieving a successful end to the season at Ajax and look forward to welcoming him to Manchester United this summer.” “I know the history of this great club and the passion of the fans, and I am absolutely determined to develop a team capable of delivering the success they deserve. “It is a great honour to be appointed manager of Manchester United and I am hugely excited by the challenge ahead,” the Dutchman said.

The Dutchman will replace Ralf Rangnick, who was installed on a temporary basis after Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was sacked in November.

United have become a shadow of their former selves and it hurts. Faces, attitudes and dressing room culture have to change. That's what Steve McLaren spotted in him when Ten Hag served as his assistant at FC Twente in the Dutch league and McLaren knows what it takes to win at Old Trafford - he was assistant manager to Sir Alex Ferguson during the iconic treble winning season of 1999. The compensation to Ajax for Ten Hag leaving is understood to be £1.7m and Manchester United's good relationship with former player Edwin van der Sar, who is now Ajax's chief executive, is understood to have played a part in the negotiations. Ajax chief executive, Edwin van der Sar, has thanked Ten Hag and said: "He is going to make the step to one of the biggest clubs in the world, in a fantastic league", but added that he would have liked to have kept him for longer. Ten Hag said it was a "great honour" to be appointed manager and he was "hugely excited by the challenge ahead".

Ten Hag will leave Ajax in June to become the fifth permanent manager at Old Trafford since Alex Ferguson retired in 2013. He starts work in June with interim ...

Ten Hag will leave Ajax in June to become the fifth permanent manager at Old Trafford since Alex Ferguson retired in 2013. MANCHESTER UNITED HAVE announced Erik ten Hag as their new manager, subject to visa requirements. “I know the history of this great club and the passion of the fans, and I am absolutely determined to develop a team capable of delivering the success they deserve.

Erik ten Hag is excited by the challenge of bringing success back to stuttering Manchester United when he takes over as manager at the end of the season.

“We owe Erik a lot of thanks for what he has achieved with Ajax so far, but we are not done yet. “That clarity is important. “He is going to make the step to one of the biggest clubs in the world, in a fantastic league. “We wish Erik the best of luck as he focuses on achieving a successful end to the season at Ajax and look forward to welcoming him to Manchester United this summer.” “I know the history of this great club and the passion of the fans, and I am absolutely determined to develop a team capable of delivering the success they deserve. “It is a great honour to be appointed manager of Manchester United and I am hugely excited by the challenge ahead,” the Dutchman said.

Manchester United have ended their search for permanent successor to Ole Gunnar Solskjær, who left in November, by taking Erik ten Hag from Ajax.

Ten Hag said: “It is a great honour to be appointed manager of Manchester United and I am hugely excited by the challenge ahead. It is understood that Richard Arnold, the chief executive, engaged in the final stages of the process and there was unanimous agreement that Ten Hag was the outstanding candidate. Manchester United have confirmed that Erik ten Hag will be their new manager on contract to June 2025, with the option to extend for a further year.

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Time for a reboot for the 28-year-old this summer then: work hard on physicality and game-reading and try to increase sprint speed. City have De Bruyne, Bernardo Silva, Rodri, Fernandinho, Ilkay Gündogan and Phil Foden: a raft of A-listers. United have two B-acts in Scott McTominay and Fred, the veteran Nemanja Matic and Paul Pogba, who will surely leave and has not been value for a £93.2m British record transfer fee. Then there is Erik ten Hag’s main point of contact: John Murtough, the football director, who is a year into his role. This vote-by-committee via a five-hour, stateside time lag is hardly slick and streamlined, particularly when the depth of the owners’ collective football knowledge is unclear. Then there is the club’s particular byzantine brew of politics and peccadilloes. THE big and loaded question: can the manager actually wield enough influence over the beast that is Manchester United to do it his way?

The Ajax boss will take charge of the Red Devils at the end of the season.

“It is a great honour to be appointed manager of Manchester United and I am hugely excited by the challenge ahead. “We wish Erik the best of luck as he focuses on achieving a successful end to the season at Ajax and look forward to welcoming him to Manchester United this summer.” The Ajax boss will arrive at Old Trafford at the end of the season with a deal which will end in June 2025 with the option to extend for a further year.

The 52-year-old worked with Pep Guardiola when he was in charge of Bayern Munich's second team.

The Deventer-based club won a first promotion to the Eredivisie for 17 years, but Ten Hag promptly resigned to coach the Bayern Munich second team and join Pep Guardiola in Bavaria. Ten Hag spent a decade learning the coaching ropes at Twente, where he was head of training, and at PSV Eindhoven before his first managerial post at Go Ahead Eagles in 2012. FC Twente are the major team in eastern Holland and Ten Hag had three playing spells at a club appropriately nicknamed ‘The Reds’.

Comments have resurfaced from 2017 of the next Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag talking about Cristiano Ronaldo following his appointment today.

"He’s so talented but he constantly demands the best out of himself. Ronaldo has one year left on his contract at the club. Ten Hag spoke about Ronaldo during his time as Utrecht manager in 2017.

Dutchman will have his hands full trying to right the listing United ship.

Time for a reboot for him this summer: he must work hard on physicality and game-reading and try to increase his sprint speed. Raphaël Varane maybe deserves more time to prove he belongs in a different file to the captain. Then there is Erik ten Hag’s main point of contact: John Murtough, the football director, who is a year into his role. If Bruno Fernandes feels the need to blaze around Goodison Park to try to jump-start the side – as he did in the dire 1-0 loss to Everton – the team are no team. The big and loaded question: can the manager actually wield enough influence over the beast that is Manchester United to do it his way? Then there is the club’s particular Byzantine brew of politics and peccadilloes.

Former England and Liverpool boss Roy Hodgson believes incoming permanent Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag is well-prepared to succeed in the Premier ...

Ten Hag has agree a three-year deal with United but in the meantime he will hope to scoop another Eredivisie title. "I do know Ralf and have had contact with him, so I can say a few words about him. Hodgson believes this sets up the incoming United boss brilliantly well to be a hit at Old Trafford.

The Dutchman will seek to bring warmth and coherence to an ailing celebrity club – it would be hard work for any manager.

Appointing him is in one sense another Rangnick: a process manager at a club that has no process; another doomed attempt by this hollowed-out robot replicant of a club to ape the human elements of a successful sporting culture. Right now, though, the fear is more what this club might do to him over the next three years. The key task will be to break the cycle of mediocrity, to put a firewall between his own work and the layers of middle management inserted by the ownership. Matt Busby took a club that had been bombed into the dust by the Luftwaffe, Alex Ferguson a booze-addled ship without a league title in 20 years. It isn’t hard to see why Ten Hag looks like an attractive option to the United board. For the first time since Alex Ferguson back in 1986 Manchester United have sourced a manager who is qualified on his record but also still on the rise in his own career. Two years of disciplined management, of stubbornness, of insisting on following his own process could inject even this ghost ship, this gothic mansion, with a little warmth, a sense of sharpened edges. Ten Hag is a talented coach and a man of substance. Players have described him as a father figure and notably sympathetic one-to-one, essential qualities in a squad that appears to be teetering constantly on the verge of some kind of collective personality breakdown. Ten Hag has a reputation for promoting youth, for working to a specific 4-3-3 system, but those who know him say he will build around what he has. This is an appointment process so refined it has, to date, dished up five random, ill-fitting, hilariously oscillating selections in the course of the past decade. David Moyes, who came in a little above his level, was recast by eight months in the job as a total imposter, some hollow-eyed passer-by with an empty briefcase on his desk.

Can the Dutch coach take an ailing celebrity club and make it function as a coherent unit?

Appointing him is in one sense another Rangnick: a process manager at a club that has no process; another doomed attempt by this hollowed-out robot replicant of a club to ape the human elements of a successful sporting culture. The key task will be to break the cycle of mediocrity, to put a firewall between his own work and the layers of middle management inserted by the ownership. The Glazers have taken this to its grisly extreme. It isn’t hard to see why Ten Hag looks like an attractive option to the United board. The pattern, if we can find one, is stasis, decline, crisis, revolution. For the first time since Alex Ferguson back in 1986, Manchester United have sourced a manager who is qualified on his record but also still on the rise in his own career. He seems state of the art in his ideas. Here is a club that lacks method, structure, coherent culture. This is an appointment process so refined it has, to date, dished up five random, ill-fitting, hilariously oscillating selections in the course of the last decade. David Moyes, who came in a little above his level, was recast by eight months in the job as a total imposter, some hollow-eyed passer-by with an empty briefcase on his desk. This is by any reasonable standard a sensible appointment. And yet there is also hope here.

Erik ten Hag will join Man Utd on a three-year deal - with option of a further year - in the summer; Dutchman replaces Ralf Rangnick, with interim boss set ...

"It's on the tip of Rangnick's tongue in every single interview he does and you feel like he's going to go rogue at some point and start calling players out. They've got Arsenal Saturday, Chelsea next Thursday where all the eyes are still going to be on them and they're going to have to try to turn up. I wouldn't be putting pressure on Ten Hag in the first two or three years to win a Premier League title. "But honestly, I wouldn't be putting too much pressure on Ten Hag in the first one or two years to win a trophy at the club. "The players have completely lost their confidence and belief," said Neville. "They don't want to play football for Manchester United at this moment in time. "It took Jurgen Klopp four or five years to win a Premier League title, as great a job as he's done.

Manchester United's next permanent manager Erik ten Hag has a serious job on his hands to turn the club back into Premier League title contenders.

Ten Hag is understood to have reservations over the level of fitness among United’s players, believing they have not been in “Champions League shape” for a while. Ten Hag is eager to prevent United from making more mistakes in the market. That department is likely to see change this summer following the departures of chief scout Jim Lawlor and head of global scouting Marcel Bout. “The qualities of the players determine the system, not the other way around,” he told ‘Voetbal International’. “It’s not even about systems. There are gaping holes to fill if that vision is to be achieved. Time is of the essence for Ronaldo, yet United need a gradual, patient rebuild. Ten Hag has a decision to make on the captaincy, even if it is to change nothing. Like I said, the players’ qualities determine how you play.” On the other hand, it is not entirely clear where he could go. His limited playing time alongside a younger centre-forward would also need to be managed delicately. After a prolonged spell of inconsistent form, Maguire’s place and status as captain is fiercely debated outside the United dressing-room. Ten Hag has switched between using false and traditional nines during his time in Amsterdam to good effect.

Manchester United have confirmed Erik ten Hag will take over as manager at the end of the season.

Please review their details and accept them to load the content. "We wish Erik the best of luck as he focuses on achieving a successful end to the season at Ajax and look forward to welcoming him to Manchester United this summer." "I know the history of this great club and the passion of the fans, and I am absolutely determined to develop a team capable of delivering the success they deserve.

Can the Dutch coach take an ailing celebrity club and make it function as a coherent unit?

Appointing him is in one sense another Rangnick: a process manager at a club that has no process; another doomed attempt by this hollowed-out robot replicant of a club to ape the human elements of a successful sporting culture. The key task will be to break the cycle of mediocrity, to put a firewall between his own work and the layers of middle management inserted by the ownership. The Glazers have taken this to its grisly extreme. It isn’t hard to see why Ten Hag looks like an attractive option to the United board. The pattern, if we can find one, is stasis, decline, crisis, revolution. For the first time since Alex Ferguson back in 1986, Manchester United have sourced a manager who is qualified on his record but also still on the rise in his own career. He seems state of the art in his ideas. Here is a club that lacks method, structure, coherent culture. This is an appointment process so refined it has, to date, dished up five random, ill-fitting, hilariously oscillating selections in the course of the last decade. David Moyes, who came in a little above his level, was recast by eight months in the job as a total imposter, some hollow-eyed passer-by with an empty briefcase on his desk. This is by any reasonable standard a sensible appointment. And yet there is also hope here.

The Dutch coach will head to Old Trafford on a three-year contract.

“Four and a half years is a good amount of time, but we would have liked to have kept Erik at Ajax for longer,” said Edwin van der Sar, Ajax CEO and former Manchester United goalkeeper. He will stay on as manager of Ajax until the end of the season. “It is a great honor to be appointed manager of Manchester United and I am hugely excited by the challenge ahead,” ten Hag said in a statement.

During his playing days, FC Twente defender Erik marked Ruud van Nistelrooy in the striker's final match for PSV Eindhoven before completing his delayed move to ...

Aside from these direct deals with United, Ajax have done plenty of business with the Premier League during Ten Hag’s period as head coach. As Ajax boss, Erik ten Hag had plenty of official dealings with Manchester United, having both sold to and bought from the club. Blind has gone on to become the player Ten Hag has selected more often than any other player, apart from Dusan Tadic, in his managerial career. When Ten Hag was named head coach of Ajax in December 2017, it was a former Manchester United player who authorised the appointment – giving Erik another strong Reds connection. In an incredible first full season in charge of Ajax, 2018/19, while winning the Dutch league-and-cup double, Ten Hag also took his team on an electric run to the semi-finals of the Champions League, where they faced Tottenham Hotspur, managed by Mauricio Pochettino at the time. The following campaign, Ten Hag locked horns with Chelsea, coached by Frank Lampard, in the group stages.

At Utrecht he transformed me and had the skill to make his vision a reality, even if his method was annoying at the start.

On Sunday morning he was there and he did the meeting. For example, at Utrecht he brought in Zakaria Labyad, who was not fit and had been written off by many, and a year later Zakaria was the Eredivisie’s best attacker. It was the weekend we qualified for the Europa League through the playoffs. He is not the romantic that we like in the Netherlands; he wants to win. And in a completely different way than with us. He also struck the right chord with me mentally. But I was soon enthusiastic, because he is so good in terms of content and details. He also has an eye for the person behind the footballer. He uses a coach looking after the mental side of things, Joost Leenders, but also looks for causes himself if you underperform. His great class is that he knows exactly how he wants it, and how to make it work. You were enjoying the game and then the whistle was blown again and Erik would say you were positioned wrong. He immediately demanded an extra training pitch, which the youth department was not thrilled with.

You might have heard that Manchester United have a new manager. Some guy called Erik.

But with the possible exception of the two at the top, there wasn't a team in the league more particular to its manager and to their vision. It's to get the club to a position where not winning the title becomes something to worry about, rather than the natural order of things. A proper clash of the titans this evening, as Barcelona Femení take on Wolfsburg in the first leg of their Champions League semi-final. "Nobody should be suckered into thinking that Ten Hag’s arrival from Ajax will put a stop to Liverpool and Manchester City from having all the fun," he writes. The Merseyside Blues still have the advantage of position, of points and of games played. Failure is relative and dictated by circumstance, and United aren't good enough to fail at winning the league. Or maybe it was the fact that Burnley played energetic attacking football, created loads of chances, scored two of them and could have had more. It is traditional, in these moments, to outline the contents of a manager's in-tray. But Ten Hag is being given a huge lump of clay to shape any way he pleases, and even if it cracks and crumbles and falls apart, that does sound like fun. Could have easily have been six, in fact, but for a wasted penalty against West Ham. But perhaps the most impressive thing aboutlast night's win over Southamptonwas that Burnley's players didn't seem to be carrying that disappointment with them. But perhaps — and we're guessing here — there comes a point where a mess becomes so big that it starts to look like a good time. Was Erik ten Hag watching on Tuesday night, as Manchester United went to Anfield? As the side he will take over this summer lay down meekly on the chopping board; as they were filleted, seasoned, lightly fried and then devoured by a rampant title-chasing Liverpool? He probably was.

West Ham midfielder Declan Rice is apparently high up on incoming Manchester United boss Erik Ten Hag's wish-list, according to the Guardian.

Palace wanted to sign the 22-year-old in January. Where will West Brom’s England international Sam Johnstone end up next? West Ham midfielder Declan Rice is apparently high up on incoming Manchester United boss Erik Ten Hag’s wish-list, according to the Guardian. The Dutchman will be targeting midfielders and the 23-year-old England international is being considered as an option.

John Giles joined Richie McCormack on Thursday to discuss Erik ten Hag and Manchester United. Manchester United announced Erik ten Hag as their next manager ...

And in time I'm going to make up my mind about who is going to stay and who is going to go.'" I'm going to do it and I'm going to do it as best I can. So I'm going to give everybody a chance, I'm going to watch everything. I think he should say 'This is going to take a little bit of time because I'm here to judge everybody on their merits and I've got to make up my mind.' Get to know the place. But the players who are in the squad should all be given fresh starts, according to Giles. Manchester United fans want the next Jurgen Klopp or Pep Guardiola. But even if ten Hag is what Brendan Rodgers was for Liverpool, it will be a huge success.