Ajax were impressive no doubt, but all I'm saying is that wasn't enough to really make waves across the wider footballing world yet. Hence why only now is he starting to get linked with the biggest jobs around. Without doubt many people here have only really looked into him recently and I include myself in that. Of course we like what we see and what we've heard, but I do find some of the responses overboard like he's the only possible option and it would be a disaster to miss out on him when I'm sure many have probably seen less than 10 games of his.
I think it easily did, that Ajax team had so much hyped and grew so much in terms of social media presence, the values of all the players sky-rocketed for Eredivisie standards. Many neutrals were even backing them to win the entire tournament.
I think why he is seen as the chosen one, is that people have realised how good Pep/Klopp are and he is of a similar style and attainable. Even if you havent watched Ajax play 10 times, you can see the difference to that side and Ole's United. The detail in coaching, players knowing what to do, the patterns in that play, you don't need to watch 50 Ajax matches to see what's behind that.
There are few managers out there that can do this succesfully consistently, mainly Klopp/Pep, to a bit lesser extent Tuchel/Nagelsmann/Gasperini etc. Ten Hag seems to be the next one that can catapult his career like Klopp/Tuchel. Stylistically, few teams are playing better football than Ajax over the past years, even in the CL and that is what makes it so impressive as he is doing this with far less resources.
It is true that his style of play and vision suits Ajax, but none of de Boer, Bosz, Keizer could achieve that like this.