{"id":178059,"date":"2024-05-03T12:22:26","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T12:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/05\/03\/erik-ten-hag-names-target-man-utd-failed-to-sign-before-striking-72m-deal\/"},"modified":"2024-05-03T12:22:26","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T12:22:26","slug":"erik-ten-hag-names-target-man-utd-failed-to-sign-before-striking-72m-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/05\/03\/erik-ten-hag-names-target-man-utd-failed-to-sign-before-striking-72m-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Erik ten Hag names target Man Utd failed to sign before striking \u00a372m deal \u2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Erik ten Hag has admitted Manchester United tried and failed to\u00a0sign\u00a0Harry Kane last summer before his move to Bayern Munich.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>United had long been seen as favourites to land Kane\u2019s signature, particularly after fellow suitors Manchester City committed to Erling Haaland, but the former Tottenham striker ultimately opted to take his talents to Bayern in a deal worth an initial \u00a382m.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to\u00a0<em>Sky Sports<\/em>, Ten Hag did not shy away from his admiration of Kane but backed Rasmus Hojlund to come good for\u00a0United\u00a0with a few more years of experience under his belt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have had some choices made with talents like Rasmus Hojlund. I can see a striker who already proved it, who we want to sign and we couldn\u2019t get him,\u201d Ten Hag initially teased without mention of Kane\u2019s name. \u201cAnd then we went to Rasmus because he\u2019s a talent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When pressed on whether he was talking about Kane, Ten Hag confessed: \u201cYes, and you know Harry Kane will get you 30 goals. I think Rasmus will get there, but he needs time. It\u2019s not fair to assess him the same as Harry Kane. I would never compare two players because they are very different.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut with Hojlund, I think we had the biggest potential in the striker position last summer and we are very happy with him. But he also needs time to adapt and we are very pleased he showed his assets in scoring goals.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/01hwyr3sjsxrjhf10xw7.jpg\" alt=\"Rasmus Hojlund, Erik ten Hag\" title=\"Rasmus Hojlund, Erik ten Hag\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>United turned to Hojlund this summer \/ Maja Hitij\/GettyImages<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<p>\u201cHe had a very good period where he scored many games after he showed it, but before and after, he had some physical issues, which is normal for a young player coming up. But it has a negative impact on the team result and that\u2019s what you have to accept.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen you go back to the fans and the opinion makers, and they don\u2019t understand or they don\u2019t want to understand this. It is how Man United gets judged, they only see the result, but we need time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have to accept the process is going slower and you can\u2019t then expect to straight [away] compete for titles in the Champions League and Premier League.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>90min<\/em>\u00a0understands that United remain in the market for a new striker, with injury-prone Anthony Martial set to leave at the end of his contract and Marcus Rashford in patchy form after playing the majority of the season on the left wing.<\/p>\n<p>RB Leipzig\u2019s Benjamin Sesko, Bologna\u2019s Joshua Zirkzee and VfB Stuttgart\u2019s Serhou Guirassy are three players admired by United, but spending this summer is\u00a0likely to be dictated\u00a0by the number of outgoings.<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 1 --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erik ten Hag has admitted Manchester United tried and failed to\u00a0sign\u00a0Harry Kane last summer before his move to Bayern Munich. United had long been seen as favourites to land Kane\u2019s signature, particularly after fellow suitors Manchester City committed to Erling Haaland, but the former Tottenham striker ultimately opted to take his talents to Bayern in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":178060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Erik ten Hag names target Man Utd failed to sign before striking \u00a372m deal \u2013 - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/05\/03\/erik-ten-hag-names-target-man-utd-failed-to-sign-before-striking-72m-deal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Erik ten Hag names target Man Utd failed to sign before striking \u00a372m deal \u2013 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Erik ten Hag has admitted Manchester United tried and failed to\u00a0sign\u00a0Harry Kane last summer before his move to Bayern Munich. 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