“Yeah, that’s what I’m doing and that’s our job,” Ten Hag told“This season that has to be our energy and the focus, but of course we are also planning for the future, for next season and that’s what we have to do. And that is also talking with your scouting department, recruitment responsibilities, and talking with players of course.”
When asked if Man Utd will be able to sign main targets even if there is no change in their ownership situation, he added: “I think so. I came in here [at the end of] last season and we talked about what can we do in the squad, what can we do in transfers. “And last year, the club confirmed they can do. So, for me, I don’t think anything changed and yeah, in this summer period we can do the same.”Ten Hag has also indicated that Chelsea’s current woes prove that money is not the answer if you do not spend wisely.
“In this moment a centralisation of good players, of the best managers, also the money is all here in the UK, that makes a great competition but also a tough and a hard competition,” Ten Hag said. “You have to do the right things, you can have money but you have to do it and spend it in a smart way and you need to have a strategy behind it, otherwise the money doesn’t work.”