United’s plan just two good
ERIK TEN HAG wants Manchester United to be the dominant force in English football by 2024.
Ten Hag has made an impressive start to life as United boss after being challenged to turn the fallen giants into serial winners again.
United have lost just one of their last 10 games in all competitions.
And he has revealed his long-term plan is to make United the best team in the land again in the next two years.
Ten Hag, whose side host Aston Villa tonight in the Carabao Cup, said: “When we are two years further on, I hope that we have developed a way of play.
“It has to be a proactive way, proactive football and that we are dominating and dictating games against all our competitors, so at the highest level.
“That is a really good challenge, so when you get that style into the squad, also we’ll see that players will develop to higher levels.
“The improvement not only has to come from being successful in the transfer market. That is definitely a part of it, but also it has to come from improvement that we get by coaching. That’s it, by managing, by coaching and by training.”
Ten Hag, who will be without Jadon Sancho, Raphael Varane and Antony for the visit of Villa, is expected to ring the changes but claims he will not take the Carabao Cup lightly.
He added: “All the games that we play, we have only one aim. We have to win. So that is the most important thing. We have to win, so we put the best players on the pitch we have.
“For every game, we make a proper plan for the line-up and this is the same. Of course, we have a lot of games to cover and this is a different competition.
“We plan some changes, but want to play a strong team. We have only one aim: we have to win to go to the next round.”