Ajax supervisor Erik ten Hag is near the very edge of being affirmed as Manchester United's new director.

Joined say no arrangement has been done except for sources in the Netherlands recommend an understanding on a fundamental level is set up.

The Dutchman, 52, will supplant Ralf Rangnick, who was selected break director in November following Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's excusal.

Paris St-Germain's previous Tottenham supervisor Mauricio Pochettino had been the other driving up-and-comer.

Official affirmation of Ten Hag's arrangement isn't normal before Ajax's Dutch Cup last against PSV Eindhoven on Sunday.

Ajax lead the Eredivisie by four from PSV as they intend to bring home their third Dutch association championship under Ten Hag.

They lost to Portuguese side Benfica in the last 16 of the Champions League.
Ten Hag arrangement will bring feeling of assurance

Joined will be feeling significantly better when Ten Hag's arrangement is made authority, on what is generally anticipated to be a three-year contract with the choice of an extra year. It will carry a feeling of conviction to a club whose season is getting ceaselessly alarmingly as Rangnick grapples with a mounting number of issues.

In the midst of various ideas of parts in the changing area, United presently appear far-fetched to get a spot in next season's Champions League after a run of one dominate in seven matches in all contests, their most awful succession of results beginning around 2019.

With some huge name players either out of agreement, like Paul Pogba and Jesse Lingard, or confronting unsure prospects, as Cristiano Ronaldo and Marcus Rashford, it vows to be a late spring of disturbance at Old Trafford.

It has been felt Ten Hag's administration style is more fit to the designs set up at United, which incorporate John Murtough as football chief.

Ten Hag will turn into the fifth super durable chief at Old Trafford since Sir Alex Ferguson's retirement in 2013.

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