Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag was not behind a young player's leaving the club in the summer.

Anthony Elanga chose to sign for Nottingham Forest on a permanent contract.

He has since gone on to show his quality and has become a Premier League regular.

However, he stated that Dutch coach Ten Hag was not behind his decision to leave.

"I'm young and don't want to sit on the bench all season, you know? When you are young you want to play, you want to make mistakes, you want to take risks," he told Soccer News.

"But he wasn't the reason for my departure. I focused mainly on myself, not on others."

Elanga added: "Of course I also saw what he did at Ajax. But when you come to England, everything is different.

"He has made several players better, Ryan Gravenberch for example, who now plays at Liverpool. But I just wanted to take my chance and go somewhere else and that was a good decision, because at Forest I'm having a good time."