Ten Hag admits ex-Manchester United boss told him not to take the job

Manchester United caput coach Erik 10 Hag says Louis Van Gaal primitively told him not to return nan occupation astatine Old Trafford.

The Dutchman was connected nan brink of being sacked astatine nan extremity of past play but saved himself by winning nan FA Cup astatine Wembley.

Now he is being fixed free reign to proceed his rebuild pinch nan Red Devils and has already added highly-rated defender Leny Yoro to his ranks this summer.

It has been a very bumpy thrust for nan erstwhile Ajax man, but aft signing a caller one-year woody a fewer weeks ago, nan 54-year-old seems wished to win successful Manchester.

Speaking pinch Dutch publication AD, he said: “[Ralf] Rangnick was perfectly right. We person been moving very difficult connected this for 2 years, but he said it precisely right: it is simply a thorough, very analyzable operation.

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“And I knew erstwhile I started that it would beryllium a reliable job. There are a batch of group who advised maine against it. Yes, including Louis van Gaal.‘

“This was by acold nan toughest play I person knowledgeable arsenic a coach.

“Does this nine want to get backmost to wherever it was complete a decade ago, to a nine that wins nan Premier League, that tin triumph Champions Leagues? We are really a agelong measurement from that, I think.”

Van Gaal had antecedently fired a informing to Ten Hag erstwhile he was primitively linked pinch nan occupation successful 2022.

He said starring Manchester United is astir being much than conscionable a coach, specified is nan commercialized unit astatine nan club.

And aft an eighth-placed decorativeness successful 2023-24, location must beryllium a important betterment for nan Red Devils this play if nan players are to proceed putting their religion successful Ten Hag.

United proceed their pre-season preparations pinch a travel to Rangers having mislaid their opening lucifer to Danish broadside Rosenborg.