Erik ten Hag has been tipped to find the Manchester United players who are 'taking it easy' should he join the club this summer.
MEN Sport has revealed that Ajax are expecting their manager to join United at the end of the season. Ten Hag is the board's favourite to take over permanently and has already been interviewed for the position.
It's understood that Ten Hag is nearing a move to United. Should he do so, one of his ex-players, Nick Marsman, has claimed he will soon find out which players are not giving it their all.
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He told The Sun: "I really like him as a coach, he's very demanding though. At Ajax, at first he changed a lot in the training and he demanded a lot of [the] team.
"They were unsure, they were like, ‘We are already playing at a high level, why are we doing this? We aren’t doing this every day'.
"But after a while they were saying, ‘Yes, it works'. So all this stuff takes time but if anyone shows a lack of concentration or focus he's right on top of that.
"I think his quality is to get the best out of people and the team. There are always players who may take it easy sometimes but if you do that, he will see it straight away and be onto you.
"He was like that with me, but Manchester United need something." United currently sit seventh in the Premier League table, six points behind fourth-placed Tottenham.
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