{"id":2257,"date":"2026-10-20T20:23:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T12:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/?p=2257"},"modified":"2026-10-20T20:23:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T12:23:31","slug":"ten-hag-admits-he-did-everything-to-sign-de-jong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/20\/ten-hag-admits-he-did-everything-to-sign-de-jong\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Hag admits he did everything to sign De Jong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image-18.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image-18.png 1000w, https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image-18-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image-18-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag has revealed how he tried to convince Barcelona midfielder Frenkie de Jong to join his Old Trafford project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Erik ten Hag has admitted that signing Frenkie de Jong was a priority during his time at Manchester United, having previously worked with the midfielder at Ajax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Of course, I did everything I could. I arranged meetings with him, which Richard and John also attended, to convince him to come,&#8221; Ten Hag told &#8216;The Athletic&#8217;, referring to former executives Richard Arnold and John Murtough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dutchman explained that De Jong suited the attacking, possession-based football he wanted to implement at Old Trafford. &#8220;He could have been very important in building the team, not just for that season but for the future. But we couldn&#8217;t get it done,&#8221; he admitted.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag has revealed how he tried to convince Barcelona midfielder Frenkie de<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2259,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257\/revisions\/2259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}