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.

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 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".

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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.

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.

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.

Patience is no longer a choice at Manchester United where they now will have to move the earth to please Ten Hag - but will it work?

And there are doubts because success here will surely require a leap of faith and a double dose of patience from all involved. There are doubts because Ten Hag has never managed in this maelstrom nor in one of the major European leagues. If it can’t get any worse, there is no option but to be brave and to reach for something better. There are doubts because United love talking about their grand visions for expansions and improvements but their inaction speaks louder; who knows if Ten Hag will actually get all he wants. There are doubts; of course there are doubts. But more important than all of that, he arrives at a club that has no choice but to let him shape them rather than the vice versa.

Ten Hag will join Manchester United as manager from the end of the season, the club announced Thursday. (CNN) English Premier League side Manchester ...

"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." "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." "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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“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.

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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It has been a chastening season for all connected to United and the club confirmed on Thursday that Ten Hag will take charge this summer. The impressive Ajax ...

“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. 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 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.” Ten Hag impressed the United hierarchy with his long-term vision for the club and proved the unanimous choice, with the 52-year-old seen as having the drive and nous to lead them back to the top. Erik ten Hag excited by challenge of bringing success back to Manchester United