Ten Hag next: The 8 Dutch Premier League managers – & how they fared

The Premier League is a melting pot of different footballing ideas from different countries, and one of the nationalities that has had one of the biggest impacts is none other than the Dutch.

That’s not surprising. The Netherlands are a truly influential footballing nation and have given the world ideas like total football.

But everyone seems to be in agreement that next up on the list of influential, footballing Dutchmen is Ajax manager Erik ten Hag. Praised for his tactical style of play and emphasis on young players, it’s easy to see why he’s landed one of the biggest jobs in world football – Manchester United’s next boss.

He’s led Ajax to a Champions League semi-final, won numerous titles and, even more impressively, rebuilt successive squads despite seeing his best players poached from other European clubs.

But what can he learn about the Premier League from his fellow countrymen who have gone before him?

We’ve had a look at how every Dutch manager in the Premier League has fared and listed them in order of least points earned to the most.

Just four matches, zero points, and labelled the “worst manager in the history of the Premier League” by Jose Mourinho; De Boer’s time in England was not a good one.

Usually, one to be over the top, Mourinho probably got this one right. De Boer wasn’t a temporary manager either, he seriously just had four games in charge of Crystal Palace before the board had had enough in September 2017..

During an interview for The Independent, he later claimed that Palace simply didn’t have the quality of players he was used to managing.

“A lot of times when you go to a club, the chemistry is not really there,” he said. “That’s why I played five in the back, 5-4-1, very defensive, not my kind