Even the 'nice' problems at Manchester United will need Ten Hag's attention

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Even the 'nice' problems at Manchester United will need Ten Hag's attention
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There are issues of varying sizes at Manchester United. Some might even be considered 'nice' headaches - but amid all of the dysfunction at Old Trafford, Erik ten Hag's problem-solving skills are about to be put to the test. MUFC 📝 Ankaman616

and the club have been linked with Brazilian forward Antony from his old club Ajax as well.

It is commonplace for football managers to seek out players they have previously worked with when starting a new job. Having a known entity can help as one adjusts to an unknown dressing room. Ten Hag himself has form for this, having signed Sebastien Haller for Ajax in 2021 after he had already managed him at Utrecht in 2015.

A former Ajax manager looking to bring in Ajax players and alumni makes sense, and players like De Jong will address a situation described by former interim manager Ralf Rangnick: that the club’s technical players lack physicality and the physical players lack a certain something. But United need reinforcements and upgrades in a number of key areas, and an Ajax-educated player cannot be the solution to everything. Ten Hag will know this. We will have to wait until the close of the summer window to know how he, and United as a whole, workedUnited have let it be known that money is available for their new manager to acquire his preferred players.Then we reach the fiddly things.

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