MELBOURNE, Australia -- Erik ten Hag has been so focused on football during Manchester United's tour of Thailand and Australia that there has been little time for anything else.
It's traditional on these trips for the manager to hold news conferences after games, but Ten Hag has explained to club staff that his time would be better spent plotting the following day's training session. Postmatch conferences usually last only 10 minutes or so, but for Ten Hag, every second counts, and while Jurgen Klopp was facing questions about Liverpool's 4-0 defeat to United in Bangkok -- Ten Hag's first game in charge -- the Dutchman was already on the team bus, deep in discussion with assistants Mitchell van der Gaag and Steve McClaren.