Erik ten Hag and Ryan Gravenberch are no strangers to each other and the pair almost reunited at Manchester United last summer.
Ten Hag wanted to make Gravenberch - who he managed at Ajax - one of his first signings at Old Trafford but the Dutch international opted for a £16.3million move to Bayern Munich instead. United went on to sign Casemiro and Christian Eriksen to bolster their midfield after the departures of Paul Pogba, Juan Mata and Nemanja Matic.
“Manchester United is a very big and beautiful club,” Gravenberch said at the time, in an interview with De Telegraaf. “But I already had such a good feeling at Bayern Munich and I had given my word.”
