Ajax manager Erik Ten Hag would not consider leaving the Dutch club for the ‘drizzle’ of Manchester United.
That’s according to Het Parool journalist Henk Spaan, who believes Ole Gunnar Solskjaer will be given another month to turn things around at Old Trafford.
The Norwegian coach finds himself under increasing pressure at Manchester United, with a disappointing start to the season raising familiar questions about his suitability for the job.
United spent heavily in the summer adding the players that Solskjaer needed, with big moves for Cristiano Ronaldo, Raphael Varane and Jadon Sancho.
As a result, they were backed to provide a title challenge, but that has been far from the case, with United struggling both domestically and in Europe.
Most of the blame has been put on Solskjaer, who many believe simply isn’t up the job of getting Manchester United competitive once again.
Ten Hag is one of the managers to be linked with replacing him with his work at Ajax, something that is admired all over Europe. Spaan covers that today and dismisses any suggestion the Ajax manager would make the move.
He says Solskjaer ‘operates on the sad level’ of a football landscape that is ‘lined with dull fjords’, with the United coach always looking over the football to the next one on the horizon.
During the international break, he was allowed ‘look around’ and asses the situation, but now he finds himself crashing back down as football starts again.
Fortunately for him, because Manchester United are a ‘bureaucratically managed monster’, they will ‘probably leave him for another month’ before deciding on his future.
Recent reports may have indicated that they have a list of replacements, of which Ten Hag is a name, but he’s having none of that suggestion.
‘As if’ he would ‘consider’ leaving ‘for that drizzle’ he writes, stating that the traffic lights in Almelo, a municipality an city in the Eastern Netherlands, are ‘more exciting’ that what would be waiting him in Manchester.
Whether Ten Hag believes so remains to be seen, of course, but it seems Spaan is taking the latest rumours and refusing them outright.
