P-Nut
fan of well-known French footballer Fabinho
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One thing I find annoying about the potential appointment of Erik Ten Hag is that it seems like we 'must' also appoint someone who has been at the club before.
Steve McClaren - was linked last week and even Luke Chadwick who played phwoar nearly 300, oops, I mean 30 games for us says Stevie should be Erik's assistant.
Robin Van Persie - seems to be the latest one.
We really don't need to be sentimental about this, McClaren was here 20 years ago - a hell of a lot has changed since then, Robin Van Persie was her 7 years ago - hardly any of the players from then are still here for him to relate to, is it really beneficial to Ten Hag?
I would much rather we kept it simple, Erik Ten Hag has done a good job at Ajax, this is why he is the top candidate... at Ajax he has his own coaching staff - these are the only people we should be looking to bring in with him - and that includes the Michell Van Der Gaag.
I think a part of it is Ten Hags supposed problems with English. Bringing in someone to get his ideas across whilst also helping him understand the club makes sense.
Also, he doesn't really have a dedicated backroom staff. The people he works with at Ajax were mostly brought in by Ajax rather than at the request of Ten Hag and he doesn't usually take a lot of coaches with him from job to job like say Mourinho used to do.