Erik ten Hag

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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“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.

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"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.

Manchester United have officially confirmed that Erik ten Hag will be their manager next season. Ten Hag described the move as "a great honor".

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Dutchman's contract is until June 2025, with the option to extend for a further year. . Read more at straitstimes.com.

"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," said the Dutchman. "Manchester United is delighted to announce the appointment of Erik ten Hag as men's first team manager, subject to work visa requirements, from the end of this season until June 2025, with the option to extend for a further year," United said in a statement.

The Dutchman is the latest coach tasked with resurrecting Manchester United, English soccer's fallen giant that is enduring a near decade-long slump.

United’s slide has been so profound that it may be years before ten Hag can be expected to make United challengers for the biggest titles. United had long targeted him as a possible new coach and had spoken with him on numerous occasions as it looked to plan for the future. That is what needs to happen with us in the next transfer windows.” Manchester United has turned to the Dutchman Erik ten Hag as the latest coach to help revive its fortunes after a near decade-long slump toward mediocrity. “It is a great honor to be appointed manager of Manchester United, and I am hugely excited by the challenge ahead,” ten Hag said. Under ten Hag, Ajax has regularly punched above its weight against wealthier European rivals, playing a swashbuckling attacking style, with homegrown talent, something that was once a signature of Manchester United teams built by Ferguson.

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Paul Pogba: His contract is expiring this summer, and he's expected to leave, but this slams the door shut on any possibility of him staying. He has the ability and vision to need just one touch to play a smart ball forward, and his ability to play the ball wide will be utilized all of the time. What seems clear is that somebody has the opportunity to make the left wing their own, and if it's not Rashford, he might need to move elsewhere for his career to continue developing. But for Rashford, his future could be away from the city of Manchester. The Mirror has hinted at 12 players who could leave in the summer, and Rashford is one of them. A lot of the attack is generated from the wings in this system, and there is no denying the talent that Sancho has. When a new manager is coming, it is only natural for players to wonder how the move can impact them.

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The quality of teams against you is much higher, and it will be difficult to be as dominant in the Premier League as Ajax was in Holland. Erik ten Hag said upon being appointed: “It is a great honour to be appointed manager of Manchester United and I am hugely excited by the challenge ahead. The worst-kept secret in football has been confirmed: Erik ten Hag will be the next Manchester United manager. Control needs to be taken away from the directors and back to the manager.” 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. We’ve squandered a lot of money, too many of the players who’ve not worked out, too many have been big names and we’ve been star struck by them, the timing of them coming has been imperfect. Andy Mitten, editor of the longstanding United We Stand fanzine, has welcomed Ten Hag’s appointment but says it won’t be easy for him and some patience will be needed. He told me this and a couple of weeks later he was the best coach for me.” A spokesperson for Maguire said: “In the last 24 hours, Harry has received a serious threat to his family home. The worst-kept secret in football has been confirmed: Erik ten Hag will be the next Manchester United manager. “We need to get back to being the huge club that we are.

Man United have announced Erik ten Hag will take charge at the end of the season, replacing Ralf Rangnick as manager.

Come United's elimination from the Champions League in mid-March, the MEN revealed Ten Hag was the club's preferred candidate. Some are 'underwhelmed by Ten Hag. The players were wisely not consulted on Ten Hag after Ronaldo's view on Solskjaer (and Antonio Conte) was gauged in October and November. Zinedine Zidane was available, just as he is now, and remains the frontrunner to replace Pochettino at the Parc des Princes in the summer. United wanted Pochettino in the wake of Solskjaer's sacking and approached Paris Saint-Germain, who abhorred the prospect of yielding to one of European football's traditional elite. Those at United who have spoken to Ten Hag insist he is determined to prove himself in a major league and ready to manage world sport's most scrutinised institution. Ultimately, United decided Ten Hag was the manager most closely aligned with the club's identity and strategy.

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The winger was bought from Southampton in 2018 for £12m and has since become a staple in ten Hag’s Ajax formation. Just 10 days after this win, ten Hag won the Eredivisie, earning the club the double. Ryan Babel is one of ten Hag’s most successful loan players. Ten Hag then secured a loan figure of £1.5m from Galatasaray for their winger and he has gone on to score three goals in his 25 appearances for the team sitting top of the Eredivisie. He moved to Ajax in 2017 and two years later led the side to the semi-finals of the 2018-19 UEFA Champions League for the first time in 17 years. Ralf Rangnick was brought in back in November to take on an interim role after Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was sent on his way, and the intervening months have seen several names linked with a move to Old Trafford, but the board has now confirmed that the Ajax manager will take on the permanent position.

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"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," he added. “It is a great honour to be appointed manager of Manchester United and I am hugely excited by the challenge ahead," he said in the club statement. "Manchester United is delighted to announce the appointment of Erik ten Hag as men's first team manager, subject to work visa requirements, from the end of this season until June 2025, with the option to extend for a further year," United said in a statement.

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.

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— The Athletic UK (@TheAthleticUK) Van Der Sar said: “Four and a half years is a good amount of time, but we would have liked to have kept Erik at Ajax for longer. “We owe Erik a lot of thanks for what he has achieved with Ajax so far, but we are not done yet. •9h ago •9h ago The safety of his family and those around him is obviously Harry’s number one priority. Edwin van der Sar: "Four and a half years is a good amount of time, but we would have liked to have kept Erik at Ajax for longer. "We owe Erik a lot of thanks for what he has achieved with Ajax so far, but we are not done yet. •9h ago A large dossier on managers was compiled but from that point on Ten Hag was more compelling than the others. "No one knows how long United's rebuild will take because it’s impossible to tell precisely how good — or bad — this squad is. It is understood United reached an agreement with Ten Hag outside of, and separate to, the release clause in his Ajax contract.

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.

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"In terms of qualities, just look at his teams. In many, many games, not just the year they got to the Champions League semi-final." You cannot say that David Moyes is not a good manager or Louis van Gaal or Jose Mourinho. I think all the managers that have been at United have been excellent." He then earned a promotion to the senior side as an assistant manager under Fred Rutten and Steven McClaren. Consequently, while three of those six wins against City came by just one goal, City have managed multiple beatdowns to the tune of 4-1, 3-0 and 3-1 in that span. Now, the old student will look to build United back into a true rival for City.

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.

Erik ten Hag comes with a strong CV of playing the kind of football that Manchester United watch their biggest rivals play today.

Their recent games against Liverpool and Manchester City have laid bare the abyss that exists between those two title challengers and United. For starters, Manchester United need to allow Ralf Rangnick — should he continue as a consultant from next season — and ten Hag to build a team. They need to start the rebuild by overachieving, and ten Hag has overachieved at his previous jobs like there is no tomorrow. The amount of freedom Manchester United give ten Hag and his team will determine the most important question around his signing. Manchester United is a different sized beast to Utrecht and Ajax, but they need something that ten Hag achieved at those clubs. Their recent results may not show it, but United have some pieces of the ten Hag puzzle already in place. While their defensive game needs a lot of fixing, their ability on the ball should be an encouraging sign for ten Hag. In Marcus Rashford, Anthony Elanga, and Jadon Sancho, United also have the kind of inside-forwards that Ajax have been using extensively over the last four years. A tactic like this is fraught with the risk of getting caught out of shape on the counter, but that's one his teams like playing with. In 2018-19, Ajax played with a false-9 up top, with Hakim Ziyech, Dusan Tadic, and David Neres frequently rotating and dropping deep to pull teams out of shape. They were struggling to push beyond a low ceiling, having not won the Eredivisie in three seasons and looking unlikely to even challenge that season. They play a high defensive line, press aggressively, and like to move quickly in transition. In his first season, Utrecht reached the KNVB cup final and finished fifth in the league. ten Hag's side won the second leg 3-0, and the tie on penalty shoot-outs.

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.

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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.

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"I'm sure they are going to let him rebuild the squad because that needs to happen. "They (fans) need to be a little bit patient as long as they see progression and players working and playing for the shirt, with hopefully a look at trying to challenge for the title in the next three years maybe," Rooney added. "I think it's good to see now that they have put a manager in that it looks like they are going to give him a bit of time, from what I've seen.

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He scored a stunning goal on the final day of 1996/97 to help his side avoid relegation. During his time at Old Trafford, McClaren helped the club to enjoy much success as they won the treble in the 1998-99 season before further Premier League titles in 2000 and 2001. During his time at Middlesbrough, McClaren won the League Cup in 2004. Erik is the same in that respect." The Telegraph also claim Ten Hag wants Mitchell van der Gaag to come with him to United. Van der Gaag, 50, has been Ten Hag's assistant at Ajax since June 1, 2021. The Telegraph state that Ten Hag wants Steve McClaren to be part of his coaching staff at United. The pair previously worked together at FC Twente when Ten Hag was an assistant to McClaren.

Erik ten Hag comes to Man United with a record of success, quality football and developing youth, but still there's an air of the unknown about him.

But he is also very good in the way he talks to the players. Ten Hag will likely bring some familiar faces with him to his backroom staff, including Mitchell van der Gaag and Robin van Persie ( if the former United striker is able to obtain a work permit), and top of his to-do list will be to improve the squad's fitness. "It's the same with his two central defenders at Ajax -- Lisandro Martinez and Juurien Timber. He'll need two central defenders who are good on the ball, but also they need pace. You learn a lot and get more experience and you learn better how to manage situations, so I have improved as a manager." The club has been dealing with the fallout in the boardroom and in the media, but Ten Hag has managed to keep the ship steering in the right direction on the pitch. Ten Hag is a detail-oriented figure who is immersed in his club and leaves little to chance. And if he needs to get angry at half-time to get his team going, he will. It was a formative experience for Ten Hag. He learned what it takes to manage and work for one of the European powerhouses, and he also witnessed Guardiola's methods first-hand: noting how Guardiola's team would defend and press from the front, and the intensity at which Bayern trained. When we spoke in December about legacy, Ten Hag identified three key aspects of being a successful club coach at the Dutch giants, which he'll take with him to United. "Laziness is a big threat, for me as a coach -- when I have that feeling, it'll come to my players and if my players get lazy, then we're killed." "Satisfaction is also a danger, as the moment you get satisfied, you get lazy," he said. At the time, he was being linked with all manner of top jobs, and was asked about whether he pays any attention to it.

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"If we cannot get the best out of a player for the team, it feels personal for me. This is how we feel, we feel things getting personal, then if we don't get it right, and I feel it with any player. Chelsea's apparent interest in Nunez probably has something to do with the disappointing form of Romelu Lukaku this season.

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"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.

Ralf Rangnick has backed Erik Ten Hag to improve Manchester United on the pitch following confirmation of the Dutchman's appointment.

United are three points behind fifth-placed Arsenal in the Premier League table. "He will have his own ideas. "It will be a significant change and rebuild necessary, that's clear. "I knew that Erik was one of the candidates the board spoke to and obviously I told them, at least from what I had seen and knew from people who had worked with Erik, that I think he would be a good choice and I still believe he will be a very good choice." "There might be a few others who, although they still have contracts, are on loan might still want to be on loan or leave the club. "From what I've seen him do at Bayern Munich when he was the Under-23 coach and Ajax now, I like his football and I'm pretty positive that with a full pre-season, with having the chance to build and mould his own staff, also a new team, which is obvious, we will have a new team.

Erik ten Hag will become the next Man United manager and Ralf Rangnick is expected to inform his decision-making next season.

"It will be a significant change and rebuild necessary, that's clear. "It's obvious there are quite a few players whose contracts are expiring," Rangnick explained. With a full pre-season, I am pretty sure we will see a different team and improvement on the pitch.

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Within Ajax’s statement upon the announcement of ten Hag’s impending move to Manchester, the new United manager said: “I only have one interest now and that's these last five games. The long-expected announcement of Erik ten Hag’s appointment as the next Manchester United boss on Thursday was met with optimism by fans. Ten Hag has been tasked with the challenge of restoring United back as title contenders in a long-term project.