According to reports in England, Ajax head coach Erik ten Hag is a target for Newcastle United, who are willing to offer the Dutchman a huge deal.
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The Premier League side recently became one of the richest clubs in the world after being taken over by a Saudi consortium. They sacked Steve Bruce and are now looking for a replacement.
According to The Daily Mail, Newcastle United wants Ajax head coach Erik ten Hag and is willing to make him one of the highest-paid managers in the Premier League. Ten Hag could earn a yearly wage of £11 million at Newcastle.
The article states that Ten Hag has reservations about leaving Ajax for the new project at Newcastle. The club currently sits 19th in the Premier League and have not won a game all season.
Ajax director Marc Overmars has also been linked with a role in Newcastle while a number of coaches have also been mentioned. Roberto Martinez, Frank Lampard, Paulo Fonseca and Lucien Favre are just a few of the names that have also been linked.
Ten Hag and Overmars are doing a great job at Ajax and they could be on the cusp of building another team like the one a few years back who should have been in the CL final.
A challenge is one thing but why jump ship to manage a team of perennial strugglers in the Premiership ?
No offence to Newcastle Utd by the way, they have a great fan base….but so have Ajax.
I guess there could be 11 million reasons to go but I hope he feels he’d be much better staying put and continuing the project in Amsterdam – the English Premiership is ridiculously awash with money anyway.
Not the right time to be making a move to Newcastle for Ten Hag.
Newcastle need at least a couple of transfer windows favourable to ten Hag type players.