HITC sources have confirmed that Erik Ten Hag has agreed terms on his new contract at Manchester United.
Ten Hag’s future at the club was only confirmed earlier this month following their post season review, conducted by their all new footballing department.
During the review, led by board members Sir Dave Brailsford and Jean-Claude Blanc, along with technical director Jason Wilcox, it was decided to keep Ten Hag – despite talks with potential successors.
Now HITC can confirm that Ten Hag and his representatives have finalised his new deal, which will be announced by the club shortly.
Erik Ten Hag gets new Old Trafford deal he pushed for and new staff
HITC understands that Ten Hag is ‘delighted’ to have agreed terms on his new contract at Manchester United, which he felt needed to be done before the start of the season.
Ten Hag’s current deal only has year left to run, but once he was informed of the club’s decision to retain him, sources confirmed to HITC that he made it clear to them that a new deal was needed to emphasise that he and the club were on the same path.
Brailsford and Blanc fed back their thoughts on the situation to minority owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe, who has given his blessing to Ten Hag to be given the new deal – as he agreed it is in the best interests of the club going forward.
Now with the deal in place, Ten Hag and the football department have also been discussing his backroom staff which will see changes to it before the start of the new season.
HITC can confirm that the club are close to agreeing deals for Rene Hake and Ruud van Nistelrooy to join Ten Hag’s staff.
Hake is a close friend of Ten Hag and current coach of Dutch top-flight side Go Ahead Eagles, and he has agreed to move to England – with his contract now being finalised.
Ten Hag has spoken about his relationship with Hake, which was formed during their time together at Twente.
“After our common period at Twente, we have always kept in touch. We meet up and call each other. You talk about private matters, how things are going at home and with the children,” Ten Hag told Voetbal International last year.
“But usually it is about football. [At Twente] he was incredibly driven, ambitious, but also extremely convinced of himself. A trainer who worked very methodically.”
United working on Steve McClaren and Ruud van Nistelrooy
Hake also knows current United assistant Steve McClaren from their time together at Twente and he is set to remain with Ruud van Nistelrooy also in talks to arrive, which would likely mean no room for Benni McCarthy – who has been waiting to find out about his role at the club, having been employed as striker coach.
Van Nistelrooy has decided to pursue the chance to return to Old Trafford, where he enjoyed a brilliant five-year spell as a player, having opted against taking up the chance to take charge of Championship Burnley.
The future of Ten Hag’s number two Mitchell van der Gaag is not yet known. It is believed that he is keen to take on a manager role of his own in the near future which is one reason why the club are understood to have made moves to make sure – that if he does leave – it won’t leave a void in the coaching team, which was already one short after Eric Ramsey departed for Minnesota United earlier this year.
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