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Ajax captain, Daley Blind, is backing Erik ten Hag for success with Manchester United.
Blind – who played for United between 2014 and 2018 before moving back to Ajax to link up with Ten Hag – insists he is ‘confident’ the coach will do well in his new role but urged United chiefs to give him patience.
“Erik ten Hag is a great guy,” Blind told Bij Andy in de Auto.
“It’s not an easy job, of course, but he doesn’t run away from it either. He takes up the challenge.
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“I am quite confident in him at Manchester United but he needs the board behind him. At Ajax he had [Edwin] van der Sar and [Marc] Overmars behind him whatever happened, also in bad times.
“I hope he gets the time there, he is one of the best managers around.”
He added: “Ten Hag leaves nothing at chance. Sometimes we faced an opponent that we would automatically underestimate and we thought, ‘we don’t need a 45 minute meeting for this’.
“But he approaches every single game the same, tactical training sessions… everything is detailed.”
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