Mike Verweij and Valentijn Driessen do not expect a sudden departure of Erik ten Hag from Ajax. The trainer is invariably mentioned in England in the list of candidates to succeed the dismissed Ole Gunnar Solskjaer at Manchester United, but emphasized on Sunday opposite ESPN to fully focus on the season with Ajax. According to Verweij, it would also be ‘crazy’ to make the switch to Manchester United now.
“Ten Hag is crazy if he goes to Manchester United at the moment”, the club watcher of Ajax says in the podcast Kick-Off by The Telegraph. “What can you win at the moment with Manchester United? With Ajax you are already assured of wintering in the Champions League, you will normally become champions and you can also win the cup.” Verweij is also not convinced that Ten Hag wants to leave after this season, but would find that moment more suitable. “But not now. He himself joined Ajax halfway through the season and he has indicated that it is quite difficult to do that. I cannot imagine that he will do that. In fact, I think I know that he will not do it.” going to do.”
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Driessen agrees with his fellow journalist except for one point. “With Manchester United you can also become champions, win the cup and win the Champions League,” he says. Manchester United are currently twelve points away from leaders Chelsea, but are at the top of Group F of the Champions League. “But I also think that he just wants to finish his work at Ajax. Then another train will probably pass, especially if he performs well again with Ajax in the Champions League. Manchester United seems to be a temporary trainer until the end of the season want, so it could also be that they are waiting for a trainer who is available after the season. That could be Ten Hag.”
In that case, the question also arises who should succeed Ten Hag as Ajax’s trainer. Marc Overmars finds the flush in terms of trainer talents ‘thin’ in the Netherlands, the club watcher says on the basis of an interview he had with the director of football affairs last week. “There is probably a shadow list and it would be bad if he didn’t have one, but I don’t know who is on it. Have I already said that I would find Peter Bosz a good option? I am also curious how the management has become thinks about John Heitinga, who is doing very well in the Kitchen Champion Division with Ajax Under-19, in fact it is. Maybe the duo Heitinga/Alfred Schreuder?”
Driessen comes up with a striking suggestion: Arne Slot. The trainer is currently performing excellently at arch-rival Feyenoord. The newspaper’s chief of football pays little attention to the sensitivity surrounding that potential switch. “Steven Berghuis is also sensitive. Ajax must take the trainer who is the best for Ajax. Whether that is the trainer of PSV, PEC Zwolle or Feyenoord, they have to look through that. They simply have to make the best choice for Ajax, sit there At the beginning of Peter Bosz everyone also shouted: ‘Feyenoord this, Feyenoord that.’ That’s not the point at all anymore. As a club board you just have to put that emotion aside. You just have to take the best trainer and if that is Slot, then they should get Slot. It’s just that Slot for a certain way of playing, which I think also fits very well with Ajax.”