31 december 2021 – Should Marc Overmars leave Ajax, then the team from Amsterdam should also fear an exit from trainer Erik ten Hag. The football affairs director is currently working so well with the coach that he would love to take him to a possible new employer.
“If I ever leave Ajax in the future, I would like to take Erik with me. In fact, I decide that. Because the director still appoints the trainer, haha”, Overmars smiles opposite The Telegraph. Despite this, both Overmars and Ten Hag decided to stay in the Johan Cruijff Arena, but there were also plenty of options to leave last year.
Nevertheless, the promise to each other, to stay at least another year at Ajax, remained. “While we have both thought a few times: dammit, this is something very beautiful that comes by. In the interest of Ajax and because we started something beautiful together, we had already discussed what we would decide in case of interest. Stay.”
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That also had to do with the initial situation when Ten Hag came to Ajax: he only did that if Overmars would stay for at least another year and a half. He was the man that the coach of FC Utrecht at the time still wanted. “FC Utrecht won 2-1 against us and then I thought: he will be my new Ajax trainer. We paid an extremely high transfer fee for that. You do that for your number 1 choice. Erik looks at the composition of his selection, projects his vision on that and plays offensively. Even with that you don’t get a guarantee, although I felt that it would work out with him at Ajax,” said Overmars.
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