The dust has settled on United's manager and the club officially announced on Thursday that Erik ten Hag will be the new manager and the Dutch coach is already United's sixth coach in the past nine years.
According to The official announcement of Manchester United, Tenhag signed a three-year contract until June 2025, plus the option to extend it for one year. Tenhag will take office at the end of the season.
Tenhag and Ajax originally had a one-year contract ahead of them, and The Athletic said United did not close the deal through a severance clause, but instead reached a separate agreement with Ajax. This is thanks to Ajax CEO Van der Sar, who is his own family and gave The Green Light for Tenhag to leave the team.
A good record in charge at Ajax, mainly playing offensive football and promoting young players are important reasons why Tenhag was favored by Manchester United management and eventually overwhelmed Pochettino.
From January 2018 to the present, Tenhag has led Ajax to 210 games, with 156 wins, 25 draws and 29 losses.
Tenhag has a 79% win rate in charge of the Dutch league, and the highest winning rate among coaches who have coached a single team in the Netherlands at least 100 games.
Since Tenhag took charge, Ajax has won 2 Eredivisie titles (cancelled in the 2019-20 Eredivisie due to the epidemic), 2 Dutch Cups and 1 Dutch Premier League. In the 2018-19 season, he reached the final four of the Champions League.
With five rounds left in the Eredivisie season, Ajax is four points ahead of Eindhoven and Tenhag will strive to win his third Eredivisie title and land at Old Trafford as the winner.
Tenhag's coaching staff was not disclosed in the official announcement, with the Daily Telegraph reporting that United are in talks with Tenhag's assistant coach at Ajax, Mitchell van der Gaag. Journalist Romano said that Van der Gag has agreed to join and continue to assist Tenhag.
It is worth noting that Van der Gag is also bald like Tenhag, and Manchester United fans must not admit it.
Tenhag also wants former Manchester United assistant coach Steve McLaren, who served as a coach from 1998 to 2001, and United won the Premier League, Champions League and FA Cup triple crowns in 1998-99.
After McLaren left Manchester United, When he coached Winter in the Dutch Liga in 2008, Tenhag was his assistant coach, and the two have fond memories of this experience with each other. Tenhag believes McLaren's knowledge of English football and the interior of Manchester United can help him.
McLaren's record as a single-minded head coach may be relatively mediocre, but as an assistant coach is a good staff officer, AndFroth has praised his advice many times.
From Tenhag's point of view, he and McLaren are old acquaintances, and when they are going to go to a strange and dangerous environment now, they must use familiarity without raw, and they must bring their own people.
The current atmosphere of the Manchester United club is not good to say that it is full of anti-thieves and traitors. Of course, they don't put the word "anti-thief" on their faces, but it has proven many times in the past, as Roy Keane said: "These players once threw Mourinho under the bus and did exactly the same thing to Solskjaer." ”
Tenhag's appointment does not mean that United can get out of the predicament. Mo Shao has already lowered expectations, and manchester United's problems are plagued by evil images, which are greatly beyond the scope of the manager, and need to give Tenhag time and give authority to solve. Some are not the responsibilities of the manager, the management does not change, and there is no drama for Guardiola, Klopp and Tuchel.