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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 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.

He's signed a three-year contract with the option for an additional year as he replaces Ralf Rangnick, who will move to a consultancy role.

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.” He’s signed a three-year contract with the option for an additional year as he replaces Ralf Rangnick, who will move to a consultancy role. He’s signed a three-year contract with the option for an additional year as he replaces Ralf Rangnick, who will move to a consultancy role.

Erik ten Hag will leave Ajax to become Manchester United manager next season, the English giants confirmed on Thursday.

" The 37-year-old still has one year left on his contract, but may not be keen to miss out on Champions League football in one his few remaining seasons at the top of the game. Ten Hag is on course to win his third league title with Ajax and took the four-time European champions to the semi-finals of the Champions League in 2019 for the first time in 22 years.

The Red Devils have not won a trophy in five years and are unlikely to even qualify for next season's Champions League.

Ten Hag also has a history of working with young players from two years at Bayern Munich's reserve team, and leaning on the academy could inject some much-needed hunger and dynamism into the United squad. United's own tradition of producing their own players has faded as the club have repeatedly turned to trying to spend their way out of trouble in the transfer market. Ten Hag needs to impose his identity on United and be given the right players to carry it out rather than an incoherent collection of star names. A parting of the ways could be in the interests of all parties as it would free up funds for Ten Hag to invest in younger legs more suited to the style of play he implemented at Ajax. However, former United boss Louis van Gaal warned his compatriot that the Red Devils are now a "commercial club" and keeping a global superstar like Ronaldo on the books would be in the interests of United's sponsors. Cristiano Ronaldo was welcomed back to Old Trafford as a hero in August with United fans dreaming of challenging Manchester City, Liverpool and Chelsea for the Premier League title.

Erik Ten Hag has never shied away from a challenge, but the biggest task of the Dutchman's coaching career awaits after accepting the role of Manchester ...

The media, people in general, always find something if you look for it. I knew nothing about football," McLaren told The Athletic of his experience with Ten Hag. After a productive spell back in the Netherlands with Utrecht, Ten Hag has continued the Ajax tradition of using the club's academy as a sustainable model for success. His two years in Munich coincided with Pep Guardiola's time as boss at Bayern with Ten Hag keen to soak up as much knowledge as he could from the Manchester City manager and the culture of working for a European giant. In his first role as a manager in his own right, Ten Hag got Go Ahead Eagles promoted to the top-flight of Dutch football. "I have to sit up in the stands to see the patterns of a game, but he could stand on the touchline (and see them). He always knew the answer to everything, how to change shape, change positions."

Erik ten Hag, named as Manchester United's new manager on Thursday, leaves Ajax Amsterdam as one of the Dutch club's most successful coaches.

Last Sunday they also lost the Dutch Cup final to PSV Eindhoven, tarnishing Ten Hag’s otherwise impressive statistics. - Manchester United confirm Erik ten Hag as new permanent manager Manchester — If new Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag is able to replicate what he achieved at Ajax Amsterdam, then the Old Trafford faithfuls are in for a heady ride.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Ajax coach Erik ten Hag will take charge of Manchester United from the start of next season after moving ahead of Mauricio Pochettino during the interview ...

Meanwhile, the timing of the appointment has been key for those involved in the recruitment process, with sources revealing that United were determined to have a deal agreed with their new manager before the end of the season. Club sources say Ten Hag was the candidate who was "most closely aligned with the club’s identity and strategy" and his commitment to improving and developing young players was also considered a major plus. Richard Arnold, the club’s new chief executive, met with Ten Hag after his formal interview to give his stamp of approval and while Rangnick insists he was not part of the decision-making process, the German was asked for his opinion in the recruitment meetings he was involved in. However, sources say Ten Hag was the "unanimous choice" with the board after the interview process and despite what some of the players thought, they believe he has the capability and vision required for the next stage of the rebuild. While sources say those decisions are not down to Ten Hag, they are the first departures of what is set to be a busy summer of restructuring and rebuilding at Old Trafford. It took just one round of formal interviews for Ten Hag to emerge as the leading candidate, as he impressed John Murtough and Darren Fletcher with his plan for putting United back on top and Pochettino, who had led the managerial hunt process for a while, was pushed into second place.