Steve McClaren and Erik ten Hag are settling down at Manchester United after a “mad” start to their time in charge at Old Trafford.
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When Erik ten Hag takes a break from the demands of managing, he will often turn to a book and he has a keen interest in tomes on sports psychology. Among his own collection, the 52-year-old enjoys The Winner is Seen, by Dutch sports psychologist Peter Blitz and Effect by Norwegian skater Johann Olav Koss.
Ten Hag will hope some of the ideas have rubbed off on him when he starts work at Manchester United. As the curtain comes down on an era at Ajax in which he has returned the club to the pinnacle of the Dutch game, his task at Old Trafford will make what came before look like child's play.
Rebuilding United is a monumental task and one of Ten Hag's first jobs will be to lift the morale of a squad sapped of belief and confidence. That collection of sports psychology books might be well-thumbed once his first pre-season is over.
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Ten Hag's focus is now gradually shifting to United, having secured his third Eredivisie title with Ajax on Wednesday night. That was the perfect farewell to Amsterdam and tomorrow he takes charge of his 215th and final Ajax game, away at Vitesse.
He will leave the club in a much better position than when he took over. Author, Dutch journalist and Ajax fan Karan Tejwani describes Tan Hag as "easily the best Ajax coach since Louis van Gaal", which is quite a compliment in Amsterdam, even if it doesn't sound like it in Manchester.
Van Gaal left Ajax a quarter of a century ago and it's taken until Ten Hag's arrival for the club to re-emerge as a true heavyweight on the European scene.
The rebirth of Ajax is the subject of Tejwani's new book, Glorious Reinvention, which was released — to perfect timing — a couple of
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