{"id":1038742,"date":"2022-03-29T20:05:35","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T20:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/29\/van-gaal-warns-ten-hag-against-joining-commercial-club-man-utd\/"},"modified":"2022-03-29T20:05:35","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T20:05:35","slug":"van-gaal-warns-ten-hag-against-joining-commercial-club-man-utd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/29\/van-gaal-warns-ten-hag-against-joining-commercial-club-man-utd\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Gaal warns Ten Hag against joining &#8216;commercial club&#8217; Man Utd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"385\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/erik-ten-hag-stands-220320g1050-696x385.jpg\"   alt=\"Erik ten Hag \u00a9 Gallo Images\" title=\"Erik ten Hag \u00a9 Gallo Images\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erik ten Hag \u00a9 Gallo Images<br \/>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Netherlands head coach Louis van Gaal on Monday warned Ajax Amsterdam\u2019s Erik ten Hag against taking up the manager\u2019s role at Manchester United, urging him to choose a football club over a \u201ccommercial\u201d one.<\/p>\n<p>Van Gaal managed United between 2014 and 2016, leading them to FA Cup success in his final season before being sacked and replaced by Jose Mourinho.<\/p>\n<p>Ten Hag, 52, is among a handful of names linked to the top job at United, with interim manager Ralf Rangnick\u2019s tenure set to end after the current season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cErik ten Hag is a great coach and that is always good for Manchester United,\u201d Van Gaal told reporters ahead of Netherlands\u2019 friendly at home to Germany on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut Manchester United are a commercial club, so it\u2019s a difficult choice for a coach he would be better going to a football club. I\u2019m not going to advise him, he\u2019ll call me himself. But he must choose a football club and not a commercial club.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 52-year-old Ten Hag was appointed by Ajax during the 2017-18 campaign and led them to the Dutch league title in 2019 and 2021, as well as the Champions League semifinals in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"E8M1ovyhOXg\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Adom Kasiebo Tau on Adom TV at 1: 55pm (29-3-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E8M1ovyhOXg?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erik ten Hag \u00a9 Gallo Images Netherlands head coach Louis van Gaal on Monday warned Ajax Amsterdam\u2019s Erik ten Hag against taking up the manager\u2019s role at Manchester United, urging him to choose a football club over a \u201ccommercial\u201d one. Van Gaal managed United between 2014 and 2016, leading them to FA Cup success in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1038743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1665,558,6832,6511,2015,697,999,3299,3849,170],"class_list":["post-1038742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-club","tag-commercial","tag-gaal","tag-hag","tag-joining","tag-man","tag-ten","tag-utd","tag-van","tag-warns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}