Monday, March 28, 2022 at 2:53 PM• Jordi Tomasowa

Louis van Gaal advises Erik ten Hag against a possible switch to Manchester United. Ajax’s trainer has been associated with the Red Devils† The Dutch coach is one of the top candidates to take over the honors at Old Trafford next season. However, according to Van Gaal, Ten Hag would be better off choosing another club.

Van Gaal himself was manager of United between 2014 and 2016, but the current national coach of the Dutch national team advises Ten Hag not to respond to the English interest. “I think Erik ten Hag is a great coach. And a great coach is always good for Manchester United. But Manchester United is a commercial club. Those are difficult choices for a coach,” says Van Gaal at the the Dutch press conference in the run-up to the friendly against Germany. †

“It’s better to go to a football club,” continues the seventy-year-old coach. “I’m not going to guide his career. Then he calls me himself, because we sometimes have conversations with each other. But he should choose a football club and not a commercial club.” The Daily Mailthe Daily Telegraph† The Independent and transfer market expert Fabrizio Romano all reported last week that Ten Hag had an initial conversation with United. The current Ajax coach is one of a total of four candidates who will have to take over from interim manager Ralf Rangnick after this season.

Manchester United would like to make a final decision in April in the search for a new manager. Sky Sports speaks of a ‘positive’ conversation between Ten Hag and United. Rangnick was appointed in December as the temporary successor to the fired Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. The 53-year-old German coach will serve as interim manager until the end of the season and will then remain associated with Manchester United as an adviser. In recent months, the names of Ten Hag and Mauricio Pochettino have been prominently featured at Old Trafford. “I don’t know him personally, but I have seen how Ajax has developed since his arrival,” Rangnick said about Ten Hag at the beginning of this month.