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A video has surfaced highlighting the staggering difference between Erik ten Hag’s Ajax and Manchester United teams in training.

Ten Hag coached Ajax to three Eredivisie titles and two Dutch Cups between 2017 and 2022, with his side often praised for their free-flowing football that took them to the Champions League semi-finals in 2019.

Footage has now emerged of that side completing a flawless rondo session back in 2019, with every player looking at ease as they played one and two-touch passes to each other without giving the ball away once.

By contrast, another video made its way online of the current United team doing their own rondo session on Monday ahead of tonight’s do-or-die Champions League clash with Bayern Munich, and it did not make for pleasant viewing for fans.

Ajax's 2019 rondo saw the players exchanging one and two-touch passes without giving the ball away once

Ajax's 2019 rondo saw the players exchanging one and two-touch passes without giving the ball away once

Ajax’s 2019 rondo saw the players exchanging one and two-touch passes without giving the ball away once

By contrast, Man United's players could hardly string three passes together during their own rondo session on Monday

By contrast, Man United's players could hardly string three passes together during their own rondo session on Monday

By contrast, Man United’s players could hardly string three passes together during their own rondo session on Monday

United need to win tonight to have any chance of going through to the knockout stages, but their players looked sluggish during the rondo routine, with the ball flying about all over the place as they struggled to string more than three passes together before one went astray.

Supporters were alarmed by what they had seen, with one labelling the team’s effort ‘shockingly poor’ while another commented ‘our performances make sense now’ in reference to United’s disappointing start to the season.

United were beaten 3-0 by Bournemouth on Saturday as they slipped to their 11th defeat of the season in all competitions.

The Red Devils produced a dire display at Old Trafford, which has become a common theme for the side throughout the campaign.

After another 3-0 loss against bitter rivals Manchester City in October, Ten Hag confessed that his United side would never be able to play like his all-conquering Ajax one as he claimed they were more suited to ‘direct’ football.

Erik ten Hag has previously said his Man United side will never be able to play like his Ajax one

Erik ten Hag has previously said his Man United side will never be able to play like his Ajax one

Erik ten Hag has previously said his Man United side will never be able to play like his Ajax one

‘We will never play the football we played at Ajax here,’ he told ViaPlay after the defeat. ‘I now have other players, that’s not why I came here.’

‘The player material you have determines how you will play. That’s why we play here in a different way than I did at Ajax. That will have to be the case, because I can’t play the same way here.

‘That is not in the DNA of Manchester United at all. The football at Ajax is very typical, here we will play much more directly. We also have the players for that, especially at the forefront.’

After seeing footage of the two teams completing passing drills in training, it may now be clearer as to why Ten Hag has serious reservations about implementing Ajax’s style at his current club.  

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