Ten Hag

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 ...

"Two domestic doubles and one kick away from a Champions League final later and there is an acceptance Ten Hag has brought some of the best football that Ajax have seen in years. "Man Utd are still a massive, massive club - one of the biggest clubs in the world. He does not just want to be a head coach - he wants to have control over the transfer strategy and recruitment as well. There is clarity now - all the players who are thinking of leaving, or who Man Utd want to sign, know Ten Hag is going to be the new manager. They want something that's completely different that they've not had before, and that's probably gone against Pochettino in some ways." He told United's website: "It is a great honour to be appointed manager of Manchester United and I am hugely excited by the challenge ahead. But let's not forget, less than 12 months ago, Man Utd finished second in the Premier League, they finished above Liverpool and over the past decade, six of the last 10 seasons they have finished above Liverpool. He's got more experience than I think most people think at the age of 52. I did a poll the other week and I was absolutely stunned - 220,000 people voted and 82 per cent were in favour of bringing him in over [Mauricio] Pochettino. He's won a couple of titles and cups in Holland. His style of play is good. "It's a massive jump but he's got a good coaching pedigree. Ten Hag will be United's fifth permanent manager since Sir Alex Ferguson retired in 2013.

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.

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".

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.

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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.

Former Republic of Ireland and Manchester United defender Denis Irwin believes Erik ten Hag has all the tools required to stamp his philosophy on Old ...

Speaking on FIVE's YouTube channel previously, Ferdinand said: "He has worked with Pep Guardiola at Bayern Munich and has the experience of being around big players. Welcome to Manchester United. Time to fasten the belts and enjoy the ride!" "The style of football he's played at Ajax over the last four and a half years is great to watch.

Erik Ten Hag contributed an 88-word statement as Manchester United announced him as their new manager on Thursday. There were some key words among those ...

"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. Ten Hag's message to fans of United and Ajax read as follows: "It is a great honor to be appointed manager of Manchester United and I am hugely excited by the challenge ahead. Erik ten Hag contributed an 88-word statement as Manchester United announced him as their new manager on Thursday.

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.

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.

Read the official Manchester United press release as Erik ten Hag is appointed Men's First Team Manager, subject to work visa requirements.

“It will be difficult to leave Ajax after these incredible years, and I can assure our fans of my complete commitment and focus on bringing this season to a successful conclusion before I move to Manchester United.” “It will be difficult to leave Ajax after these incredible years, and I can assure our fans of my complete commitment and focus on bringing this season to a successful conclusion before I move to Manchester United.” Erik ten Hag said: “It is a great honour to be appointed manager of Manchester United and I am hugely excited by the challenge ahead.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.