ERIK TEN HAG has reportedly ‘moved up’ Tottenham’s list of managerial targets, amid the news that Julian Nagelsmann has ‘agreed’ to join Bayern Munich.
Brendan Rodgers remains top choice to replace Jose Mourinho at Spurs, as SunSport told you yesterday.
But with the Leicester boss likely to be very difficult to prise from the King Power, the North Londoners are considering other targets.
And among them, according to The Telegraph, is highly-rated Ajax boss Ten Hag.
The Dutchman will be familiar to Spurs fans, having masterminded Ajax’s incredible run to the Champions League semi-finals in 2019 – a campaign that was halted by Tottenham before they lost the final to Liverpool.
Despite losing talented youngsters that he developed into superstars, including Frenkie de Jong, Matthijs de Ligt and Donny van de Beek – Ten Hag has managed to keep Ajax at the top of Dutch football.
Since arriving from Utrecht in 2017, the former central defender has won a league title and two domestic cups – with his side sitting 12 points clear of second-placed PSV this time around with four games left.
After the failure of his Mourinho appointment, chairman Daniel Levy is determined to hire a manager that plays an ‘exciting, progressive’ style of football.
And Ten Hag, 51, fits that bill, having worked as Bayern Munich II manager during Pep Guardiola’s time in Bavaria between 2013 and 2015.
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The Ajax boss will have just one year remaining on his contract in Amsterdam come the summer, making recruiting him much easier than Rodgers – who has four years to run on his.
German Ralf Rangnick, who was considered by Chelsea prior to appointing Thomas Tuchel, is also understood to be on Spurs’ radar.
Levy, 59, had been interested in appointing the 62-year-old back in 2012, before going for Andre Villas-Boas instead.
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Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
