{"id":21301,"date":"2022-06-17T09:01:15","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T13:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/06\/17\/erik-ten-hag-eyeing-player-30-or-over-for-manchester-united-squad\/"},"modified":"2022-06-17T09:01:15","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T13:01:15","slug":"erik-ten-hag-eyeing-player-30-or-over-for-manchester-united-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/06\/17\/erik-ten-hag-eyeing-player-30-or-over-for-manchester-united-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"Erik ten Hag eyeing player 30 or over for Manchester United squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Manchester United boss Erik ten Hag is looking to add some experience to his squad this summer, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Devils have, as always, been linked with countless names already this summer.<\/p>\n<p>The likes of Jurrin Timber and Frenkie de Jong, both of whom have worked under Erik ten Hag previously, were the two names most heavily linked.<\/p>\n<p>However, reports in the media and comments from De Jong himself suggest neither of those players is moving to Old Trafford this summer.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, one of the more likely names set for a United switch in 2022 is Christian Eriksen, who is a free agent after his six-month deal with Premier League side Brentford expired at the end of last season.<\/p>\n<p>Given Eriksen\u2019s age and the fact United are not desperate for cover in his position, the move does not appear to make that much sense.<\/p>\n<p>However, a report from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/sport\/football\/1626533\/Manchester-United-transfer-news-Erik-ten-Hag-Christian-Eriksen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Give me sport<\/a> has shed some light on to why Manchester United look to be targeting Eriksen.<\/p>\n<p>It is claimed Manchester United want a player aged 30 or over. 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The likes of Jurrin Timber and Frenkie de Jong, both of whom have worked under Erik ten Hag previously, were the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[13,14],"class_list":["post-21301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-sport","tag-football","tag-soccer","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}