Erik ten Hag played down the suggestion that Manchester United could look to sign Hakim Ziyech this summer after Dutch legend Marco van Basten recommended him for such a move.
Ziyech, 29, played under Ten Hag at Ajax but has struggled for regular game time since he moved to Chelsea two years ago.
United are in the market for another forward at the end of the season and the interim manager Ralf Rangnick has advised the club to look at signing two attackers if possible.
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Morocco international Ziyech is certainly a player who Ten Hag knows well from their time together in Amsterdam and Van Basten believes he would be a good fit at Old Trafford.
"What comes to my mind now is that I think Ziyech, who already plays in England, could be a very good footballer at Manchester United for Erik," Van Basten told Ziggo Sport on Monday.
Rather conveniently, United manager-in-waiting Ten Hag was also a guest on the show, so supporters didn't have to wait long to hear what he had to say about the suggestion.
The former Ajax manager side-stepped talking specifically about Ziyech and instead spoke about how intense transfer speculation is just part of the job at an elite club.
"Of course this was already the case at Ajax," he said. "You take that in and then you have to continue to work well with the dressing room and with people within the club. You have to analyse well and make the right choices."
