Former Manchester United boss Erik ten Hag has revealed that he is not going to 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 Purple Devils had been slumped in 14th place with 11 factors from 9 video games by the point Ten Hag was handed a profitable compensation bundle.
Ruben Amorim has endured an excellent 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 raised in the identical time interval – and is at present 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 choice which he claims is deliberate.
“I’ve already determined for myself: OK, I am not doing something till 1 July,” the Dutch tactician advised the in-house podcast sequence run by the company which represents him, SEG Tales.
In a sequence of clips launched earlier than the total interview is unveiled on Tuesday, Ten Hag additionally identified that he is “had many highs” in administration.
Nevertheless, that is to not distract from his query for perfection. “You are at all times working in the direction of a dot on the horizon, however you by no means get to the horizon,” Ten Hag stated.
“I at all times say: ‘There may be at all times room for enchancment. And good shouldn’t be 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 enjoying employees – as Raphael Varane not too long ago revealed – and the membership’s fanbase throughout two-and-a-half years of wildly combined 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 via the holes within the stadium’s leaking roof. But, given the membership’s present malaise, some at Previous Trafford can also miss Ten Hag.
