Ten Hag: The Biography

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Donny van de Beek revealed how hard it is to break down the Ten Hag way on account of just how much it entails. "You can see it in the pressures, in our variations with building-up play, how we switch play, speed it up, keep the ball… It's so much, it's hard to explain." The ultimate, authoritative biography of Manchester United's 'absolutely fantastic' new manager, Erik ten Hag

All in all, Ajax’s tactics DNA and football philosophy can only be described as Total Football 2.0! Ajax’s Formation & Shape

According to the principles of positional play, Ajax wish to create as much space as possible in the center of the park to aid ball circulation by stretching the pitch as much as possible. The players will look to try to open up passing lanes for each other with their positioning.

The Ten Hag era has coincided with a wide-scale restructure of the club, with every department being shed of people that had been too safe in jobs with excessive power despite not being best in class. Ten Hag then became the sporting director and head coach of Utrecht in summer 2015, where he led the club to fifth place during his first season. [9] In the 2016–17 season, he improved Utrecht's final position to fourth, booking a place in the UEFA Europa League qualifiers. [ citation needed] Ajax

By adhering to the principles of positional play, Erik ten Hag’s system focuses on creating numerous triangles and diamonds for the player with the ball along with numerical superiority around the ball zone. Players help each other to create better angles to pass the ball, as well as providing defensive solidity if play breaks down, by their positioning and focus on adding a spare man around the ball zone to build up fast and more vertically. If Moyes was United’s so-called “chosen one” and Mourinho the self-anointed “special one”, Ten Hag might just be the right one. If so, there will be more biographies, but for now, Meijer’s portrait is definitive. “Weird”? Maybe, but if United start winning trophies again, nobody will notice. The new Ajax boss said: "We have sold a certain amount of players and I am expecting nobody else to leave. It would be bad for us if we would lose another starter."