It is always easy to criticize the coach who has been fired. We are not tempted to kick on against Erik ten Hag, but it must have been a humiliation to see the rookie Arne Slot get into the “impossible” task of replacing Jürgen Klopp and immediately rule in the Premier League.
In preseason, Liverpool played their way to a 3-0 win over United, which was followed by similar figures in the Premier League in the first part of the season. When Erik ten Hag was asked about Slot as the new Liverpool manager before the start of the season, the then United manager replied dryly, that it was not as impressive what Feyenoord had done in the Eredivisie as people made it out to be.
In October, Manchester United management sacked Ten Hag after a historically weak start to the Premier League season. At that time, Arne Slots Liverpool was at the top.
Ten Hag was linked to the job as Dortmund coach, but became too expensive a solution for the Germans. Now the former United manager is being linked to a new job. It’s nothing new that Eredivisie club Ajax wanted Ten Hag back, but didn’t get it. According to Algemeen Dagblad, Feynoord has Erik ten Hag high up on the list of candidates to take over the coaching job from Brian Priske, who was fired on Monday.
It is not known if Ten Hag is tempted to take the Feyenoord job, for us this must be the optimal humiliation. Overtaken by Arne Slot in the archrival relationship between two of the world’s biggest clubs, so take the coaching job Slot left after being called up to the Premier League.
Doesn’t exactly sound like the Feyenoord management should be relying on Ten Hag to accept.
