Erik ten Hag in ‘very superior’ talks with Bundesliga giants
Bayer Leverkusen are paving the best way for Xabi Alonso to depart the membership for Actual Madrid, with talks to nominate Erik ten Hag as his successor on the BayArena reported to be “very superior”.
The method ought to enable Leverkusen, who’ve fallen off the tempo set by Bayern Munich this season whereas nonetheless sustaining second place, to have a clean transition from one period into one other.
It emerged from Germany on the finish of April that ex-Manchester United boss Erik ten Hag had been recognized as Leverkusen’’s major goal.
Now, kicker writes that, with rising indications Alonso’s future away from the membership is “nearly settled”, issues have rapidly progressed at Leverkusen to safe a alternative. A take care of Ten Hag is claimed to shut, “if not already in settlement”.
Ten Hag has had a seven-month break from skilled soccer since his dismissal by Manchester United in late October. The Dutchman paid the worth for a poor begin to the season, though successor Ruben Amorim has encountered comparable difficulties in acquiring constant outcomes.
However Ten Hag nonetheless gained two trophies – an EFL Cup and FA Cup – in his two full seasons, making him one in every of solely six managers within the membership’s 147-year historical past to ship main silverware greater than as soon as.
The 55-year-old had beforehand made his identify throughout a extremely profitable spell with Ajax, the place he gained three Eredivisie titles, two Dutch cups and acquired to inside a kick of the 2019 Champions League last after eliminating Actual Madrid and Juventus en path to the final 4.
German soccer will not be new for Ten Hag. After a decade incomes his teaching stripes at academy stage after which as an assistant, a brief however profitable spell at Go Forward Eagles was adopted by the supply of a job accountable for Bayern Munich II when Pep Guardiola ran the first-team.
Throughout two years in Munich, Ten Hag’s aspect gained the Bavarian state league, earlier than he returned prime flight soccer in his native Netherlands with former membership Utrecht.
