Ten Hag rejects his boyhood club over payments from Bayer
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Reading Time: 2min | Tue. 16.09.25. | 20:34
His former team Twente asked him to step in as a coach but he declined
The football is all about money for very long time now. Rarely we do hear stories that some footballers have made it in their careers and are not playing in the clubs which paid them the most, but in the teams which are they boyhood clubs. The same goes for coaches. One of the rare situations we saw was Edin Terzić, who grew up as a Borussia Dortmund fan and was on the terraces when the club won their last title and later became their manager. Famous Claudio Ranieri decided to retire but when his club Roma cried for help, he came straight back to help them. Dutch’s Twente did something similar just a while ago, calling it’s former player and legend Eric ten Hag to help them. But a different reply came.
Former Bayer Leverkusen and Manchester United manager made his career at Twente where he played three times as a player: 1989/90, 1992/94 and 1996/2002 but he never coached the club. He went on to play for them 262 times and when he came up against them as United boss, he declared he had a 'big love' for them. Gut according to the Dutch’s De Telegraaf, he refused the chance to take them just two weeks after his dismissal at Leverkusen. Twente is without a coach after only five rounds of football and are in 13th place, just two points above the relegation zone. The reasons for his refusal for the club he has a ‘big love’ are not known.
Maybe he doesn’t want to come back to the Dutch football yet and wants to exlore other stronger leagues (if he gets an offer). Maybe he just needs a mental rest, since his Leverkusen sacking came as a big shock to everybody including him. After all, it’s not pleasant for anybody to get sacked after only three games, and to know that the club is more willing to pay severe amount of money just to get rid of you as soon as possible could be mentally harming. Taking another risky job so soon could be even a worse decision in the long run. But there is also another option – money. According to Bild, Bayer will pay him 4.3 million pounds, and that severance fee, around 69,000 per day that he worked, is due to be paid over time. If he choose another job, this money would stop coming.
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