The English media have revealed that Tenhach will become the next manager of Manchester United. The Dutch telegraph reporter Van der Klan wrote an analysis of Ten hach's coaching characteristics and the prospects of coaching Manchester United, and the following is a full translation.
The rich second generation who are unwilling to go home to take over
Tenhach was never one of those who made it clear that he had the ambition to become the world's top manager, he was humble by nature and a very modest manager.
It has a lot to do with his background, he's from the east of the Netherlands, where people have a down-to-earth mentality and tend to speak with a heavy accent. They always look up to those from Amsterdam, Rotterdam and The Hague, which have tall office buildings, large factories and national parliaments.
Despite this background, the accent is indeed heavy, but Tenhach is a little different. At any stage of his career, he had no pursuit of money or the need to find a well-paid job.
The reason is simple, he comes from a very wealthy family, his father and brother are millionaires, own several real estate companies, financial companies. His father wanted Tennhach to work for his own company, but Tennhach was a brilliant player from an early age, and when he played for Twente, Tenhach was the star defender of the team. As a result, Tenhach made it clear that he would not work for his own company.
However, this means that he has no worries about food and clothing. He knows he doesn't need football to feed himself, so he can stick to his principles and not need to compromise like other managers to keep working.
A tactical maniac who teamed up with Guardiola
Tenhach's football philosophy is based on Guardiola and Cruyff, who likes to attack and like to create on the pitch.
I've been following Eindhoven for a long time, when Tennhach was the team's assistant coach, just as I was McLaren's assistant coach at Twente before.
At clubs such as Twente and Eindhoven, Tennhach has played an important role and the managers often rely heavily on him because of his tactical expertise. They're happy to have a teaching assistant like him, which is enough to say a lot.
After that, he worked as a reserve team manager at Bayern, a job he really enjoyed. For Tenhach, having a first-team manager who works the way he wants is almost like a dream come true.
He once told me that he enjoyed working with Guardiola and liked to talk to Guardiola. As reserve manager, he had to develop players who were ready for first-team appearances, which allowed him to play an important role in the team's system.
Players will find it difficult to play under him because, like Guardiola, Tenhach gives the impression of being obsessed with tactics. To play like Ajax, you need a lot of training and a lot of offensive players.
Such tactics will leave a lot of offensive space for the opponent, because he will require his defender to be closer to the opponent's half and even the penalty area, which will bring a lot of risk. You have to be crazy enough to instill this tactical line of thinking in your players, asking them to be just right with every pass and not make any mistakes.
Prefer to stay on the training ground
However, he has been very good at managing the dressing room and all the players he has coached say they have learned a lot from him.
While many managers tend to focus on the starting line-up, Tenhach spends a lot of time on the training ground. Once he takes over Manchester United, he will not only focus on star players such as Ronaldo or Maguire, he will also pay attention to the players who are ranked 19th and 20th in playing time. He doesn't mind spending a lot of time with the bench players and he spends all his time with the players.
That's where he earns the respect of his players because they see the tremendous effort he puts into improving the quality of his players. Even for those players who face great difficulties, once they realize that they have talent, Tenhach will make sure that they solve the problem and integrate into the team.
He's not afraid to accept an invitation from United, but he wants to wear his tracksuit for hours a day. He doesn't think of himself as the kind of guy who sits in an office, and if he's willing to do that, he'll go to his father's company.
He doesn't like to call his agent and my feeling is that it's going to be one of the topics of discussion when negotiating with Manchester United and he needs a sporting director or assistant coach who has the ability to do that.
He doesn't think he should take full responsibility for Manchester United at Old Trafford, he will want to focus on finding his identity for the team and he will make sure he does it.
Another potential problem is that Tenhach never feels comfortable before the camera, which will be a challenge, and he may find it difficult to convey his message accurately to the outside world.
If he went to a German club, he would be in his comfort zone because he lived near the German border, where people took German as their second language.
However, English was not his comfort zone. I think as a manager of one of the biggest clubs in the world, being able to master the words of English is very helpful to him. However, this will not prevent him from succeeding, and if he is more proficient in English, it will help him a lot. I know that he has been practicing his English.
The more "conservative" Guardiola
At the beginning of his coaching at Ajax, his newspaper was often criticized for tactical choices, and the players found it difficult to adapt to his long training sessions and long talk on the pitch.
Yes, he built a great team. But, by Dutch standards, he got enough good players. He was asked for immediate success, but to his surprise, Ajax won 4-1 at the Bernabeu in the 2018-19 Champions League against Real Madrid and eliminated Juve in the quarter-finals.
But, perhaps most impressively, when Ajax sold their best players, De Ligt and De Jong, respectively, to Juve and Barca, Tenhach gave the team a clear identity, which made it easy for new players to integrate into the team.
If United fans want to know what he's going to do, it might be instructive to look at his idol. His idol is dutch international Drost, who travels to the same region, at the same club as Tenhach and is his coach when he was at Twente.
Tenhach recalls, "He had a soft spot for me because I was the youngest player on the team and he let me play in the U23 team when I was only 15 years old. He's a huge fan of adventurous football and he inspires the creativity of his players because that's the most important aspect of the game. I learned a lot from him. ”
If Tenghach had to be compared to other players, I would think of him as Ronald Koeman. They all play at centre-back and are the leaders of the defensive line who observe the position of their teammates and the movement of the game.
After coaching, they were all big fans of all-attack and all-defensive tactics, but Coman never imagined Guardiola playing so risky. If there is any difference between the tactics of the Manchester city manager and Tenhach, it is that Tenhach's approach is slightly more realistic than That of Koeman. They are all more focused on defense than Guardiola.
Grief became his motivation
If he goes to coach Manchester United, the people he works with will soon know that he is a very loyal person, which is one of his key characteristics.
After joining the Twente youth team at the age of 14, he quickly rose to the U18 youth team and played with the same group of players for many years, most of whom maintained a friendship with him, and still do.
However, while playing for the Twente Youth Team, two of his best friends tragically died, one of whom was killed in a plane crash in Suriname.
Andy Szamin was destined to join the Dutch national team, but Shamin, who had not yet entered the Orange Army, was favored by Suriname and invited him to play a friendly match, and Shamin chose to accept the invitation. As a result, the plane he was riding on crashed, killing many of his players.
He was one of Tenhach's best friends, and they were all there. For Tenhach, it was a huge setback in his life. Another friend of his committed suicide and another suffered a serious injury, and all three looked destined to enter the Dutch national team. It had a big impact on him, and he was eager to succeed because it was an opportunity his friends would never get again.
Even now, such thoughts still drive him forward.