Christian Eriksen has explained how he feels about a slight positional change since arriving at Manchester United in the aftermath of his Old Trafford debut.
The Danish international joined the Red Devils after a lengthy transfer saga that left plenty of pundits and fans alike guessing over Eriksen's next move. For a portion of the window, it seemed certain that Eriksen would prolong his stay at Brentford after the Bees handed him a six-month contract in January.
However, the former Tottenham man eventually put pen to paper on a deal with United and has enjoyed a promising start to life as a Red Devils player during the club's pre-season campaign. Eriksen put in another impressive performance against Spanish outfit Rayo Vallecano in front of the Old Trafford faithful for the first time.
After the game, he shed light on how he feels to be entertaining a slightly different role to the one we have all gown accustomed to seeing Eriksen take on. Pressed on how he viewed playing deeper than usual against Rayo, the 30-year-old issued the kind of reply Ten Hag will love.
"First of all, I think you play wherever the manager wants you to play - he puts out a team and then you try to go from there,"he told United's in-house media. Obviously with some games you cover different situations but the aim is still the same, to be involved as much as possible. Whether thats to play as a 10 or as an eight or anywhere."
Eriksen went on to confess he is happy to be finished with pre-season and now has his sights set firmly on helping United recover from their worst ever Premier League campaign last time around.
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"Yeah it is always a good feeling to have finished your pre-season and finally the real work starts. The real season starts so it is always nice to play the last pre-season to really get the good feeling and the fitness from pre-season but then in the end it is all about being ready mentally."
Asked about his optimism for the upcoming season, he added: "I have only been here for a short amount of time but it looks good and feels good among the players. There is a good feeling around from after the tour."
There is every chance Eriksen marks United's final midfield addition this summer as the club's pursuit of Frenkie de Jong looks like it will end unsuccessfully after the Dutchman dug his heels in and insisted on a Camp Nou stay.
