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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 ...

"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.

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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." "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.

MANCHESTER UNITED have named Ajax Amsterdam coach Erik ten Hag as their new manager to succeed interim boss Ralf Rangnick from the end of this season, ...

Manchester United have confirmed the appointment of Ajax head coach Erik ten Hag as their new manager from the end of the current season until June 2025.

Ajax chief executive — and former Manchester United player — Edwin van der Sar added: “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. Ten Hag has been the head coach of Ajax since December 2017. From passive goalkeeping to ball progression issues across the team, Ten Hag has plenty to sort when it comes to the United squad From passive goalkeeping to ball progression issues across the team, Ten Hag has plenty to sort when it comes to the United squad United are looking for a striker, two central midfielders and a right winger - signings which would be a show of support for the new manager

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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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.

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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.

Erik ten Hag has signed a three-year deal but has plenty of work to do with Manchester United, who are currently sixth in the Premier League.

Returning United to its former heights is set to be an even bigger job, given the team won the last of its record 20 English titles in 2013 — Ferguson’s final season of his 26-year reign — and hasn’t won a trophy since beating Ajax in the Europa League final in 2017. Adopting the attacking philosophy of the great Johan Cruyff, ten Hag succeeded in bringing the good times back to Ajax, leading the biggest team in the Netherlands to two Eredivisie titles — it could be three in a few weeks — as well as the Champions League semifinals in 2019. “It’s a great honour to be appointed manager of Man Utd, I’m hugely excited,” said Ten Hag in a statement released by the club after the appointment.

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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 Dutch coach has been with Eredisivie club Ajax since December 2017 and has enjoyed great success in Amsterdam. As he approaches the end of a fourth full ...

Now we have to be focused on the last games but we are excited for this. Now let’s focus on Arsenal and fight for the top four.” David De Gea has outlined his excitement at the announcement of Erik ten Hag as Manchester United’s next manager.

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.

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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Ten Hag started his managerial career at Go Ahead Eagles in the Dutch top flight in 2012 before moving to Bayern Munich's reserve team a year later.

His Ajax side has scored five or more goals in 37 matches. Manchester United, on Thursday, announced that current Ajax manager Erik Ten Hag will take over as its manager from the 2022-23 season. Ten Hag returned to the Netherlands after leaving Bayern and joined Ajax in 2017 after two years at Utrecht. At Ajax, Ten Hag won his first managerial trophy in the form of the KNVB Cup — completing a full circle from winning it as a player and winning it again as a manager.

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.

Manchester United have appointed Ajax boss Erik ten Hag as their new manager, to replace interim Ralf Rangnick at the end of the season.

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. "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.

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There, he frequently crossed paths with then-Bayern boss Pep Guardiola, learning his trade for two years before returning to the Eredivisie, where he galvanised unfashionable FC Utrecht and led them to Europa League qualification. The player progression programme was a key part of Twente.” The evolution in Ten Hag’s reputation has been meticulous, mirroring a rise which has been methodical rather than meteoric.

Ten Hag is tasked with awakening a fallen superpower in European football that is enduring its longest trophy drought in nearly 40 years.

I want to finish my time here on a positive note, by winning the league.” But I only have one interest now and that’s these last five games. The three-time European champion might not even return to the Champions League next season. As such, he is untested in the Premier League and in handling the egos of some of the biggest players in world football — and United has some of them in Cristiano Ronaldo, Paul Pogba and Bruno Fernandes. Pogba is, however, out of contract at the end of the season and is set to leave as part of what could be a major shake-up of a playing squad that needs rebuilding and strengthening in key areas like central midfield and up front. Adopting the attacking philosophy of the great Johan Cruyff, ten Hag succeeded in bringing the good times back to Ajax, leading the biggest team in the Netherlands to two Eredivisie titles — it could be three in a few weeks — as well as the Champions League semifinals in entertaining style in 2019.

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.