Former Manchester United boss Erik ten Hag has revealed that he won’t return to administration till subsequent season on the earliest.
The divisive Dutch coach was sacked by United on the finish of October after overseeing the membership’s worst-ever begin to a Premier League season. The Pink Devils have been slumped in 14th place with 11 factors from 9 video games by the point Ten Hag was handed a profitable compensation package deal.
Ruben Amorim has endured a good worse run of kind since taking the Previous Trafford helm. The heralded Portuguese head coach boasts simply 15 factors from as many matches – a tally solely the division’s backside three have failed to higher in the identical time interval – and is presently sat in fifteenth place.
Ten Hag’s inventory has risen whereas an more and more demoralised Amorim has continued to battle with the identical squad of underperforming gamers. The previous Ajax boss was linked with the briefly vacant function at Borussia Dortmund and figured within the dialog for the everlasting place at Feyenoord, however has remained unattached – a call which he claims is deliberate.
“I’ve already determined for myself: OK, I am not doing something till 1 July,” the Dutch tactician instructed the in-house podcast sequence run by the company which represents him, SEG Tales.
In a sequence of clips launched earlier than the complete interview is unveiled on Tuesday, Ten Hag additionally identified that he is “had many highs” in administration.
Nonetheless, that is to not distract from his query for perfection. “You are all the time working in direction of a dot on the horizon, however you by no means get to the horizon,” Ten Hag mentioned.
“I all the time say: ‘There’s all the time room for enchancment. And good isn’t ok. You are able to do higher.'”
Intriguingly, Ten Hag was additionally proven to confess: “If there’s one factor I miss, it is Previous Trafford.”
The 55-year-old had a fractured relationship with United’s taking part in workers – as Raphael Varane not too long ago revealed – and the membership’s fanbase throughout two-and-a-half years of wildly blended outcomes. Alongside the highs of two home cup trophies, Ten Hag additionally oversaw a number of historic losses, together with United’s heaviest-ever defeat to arch-rivals Liverpool.
The enduring picture of Ten Hag at Previous Trafford is that of the beleaguered Dutch coach standing solemnly beneath an open torrent of water pouring by way of the holes within the stadium’s leaking roof. But, given the membership’s present malaise, some at Previous Trafford may miss Ten Hag.
