On the afternoon of April 21, Beijing time, Manchester United officially announced that dutchman Tenhach will become the official manager next season. It is reported that Tenhach has signed a contract with Manchester United until 2025, with the option of extending the contract for one year. The 52-year-old Tenhach looks exactly like Guardiola, and having worked with Guardiola to be deeply influenced by his football philosophy, and many professionals believe that he can bring the "beautiful football" he built in Ajax to Manchester United, so can he replicate Pep Guardiola's success at Manchester City?
According to Dutch media reports, Tenhach's family is one of the largest real estate developers in the Netherlands, his father and brother are millionaires, and he owns several real estate companies and financial companies. His father wanted Tennhach to work for his company, but Tennhach was a brilliant player from an early age, playing for Twente as the team's star defender. Therefore, Tenhach made it clear that he would not go to his own company to "take over".
The biggest success of Tenhach's player years was the 2000/01 victory over the giants Eindhoven to win the Dutch Cup.
After retiring in 2002, Tenhach began his coaching career with the Tevent youth team, leading the team to the Dutch A1 youth championship in the 2006/07 season. After that, he followed his mentor Ruten to coach Eindhoven, and benefited from 3 years of teaching assistantship.
In the 2012/13 season, Tennhach came to prominence when he coached the Eredivisie Team Forward Eagles, leading the team back to the Eredivisie after 17 years, which attracted the attention of Bayern Munich.
In the 2013/14 and 2014/15 seasons, Tenhach was bayern's second team coach, and it was Pep Guardiola who was bayern's first team coach at the time.
Tenhach said he enjoyed working with Guardiola, liked to talk to Guardiola and that as Bayern manager he had to develop players 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.
The ambitious Tenhach then chose to return to the Netherlands to develop, and in the 2015/16 season, he led the fish-belly team Utrecht to the final of the Dutch Cup, and although he failed to win the cup, he won the "Cruyff Award" of the Best Coach of the Netherlands, and the following year Utrecht passed the European qualifying play-offs and entered the Europa League.
At the beginning of 2018, Tenhach was appointed by Ajax as the firefighting coach, and in the 2018/19 season he led Ajaxlenk to defend champions Real Madrid and Juventus, reaching the top four of the Champions League after 22 years, although he regrettably lost to Tottenham, he also contributed to the European football world such as De Ligt, Frenki De Jong, van de Beek and other top stars.
Tenhach also became the third coach to complete his first nine unbeaten games in charge of the Champions League after Louis van Gaal and Guardiola.
In March 2021, Tenhach set a new Eredivisie record with an average of 2.43 points per game in his first 100 games in charge. In January, he reached the milestone of 100 wins in just 128 league games, which is also unprecedented.
As manager of Ajax, Tenhach has led the team to 210 matches, with a record of 156 wins, 25 draws and 29 defeats, winning 2 Eredivisie titles, 2 Dutch Cups and 1 Dutch Super Cup.
This season, Tenhach's team has remained strong, scoring 118 goals and conceding 28 goals in all competitions, especially in the league, especially only conceding seven in the league, currently leading by four points, and the Dutch League three consecutive championships in sight, and all this is done with Ajax selling his main players every year.
The famous coach who has won the title of the best coach in the Netherlands three times in 6 years is naturally sought after by the five major league giants, and clubs including Bayern and Dortmund have thrown olive branches to him in the past three years.
Of course, Tenhach himself still hopes to break into the Premier League, but his predecessors De Boer, Koeman, Van Gaal and other Dutch coaches have failed to prove the strength of the Dutch coach.
From a personal point of view, Tenhach is also regarded as a "low-end version" of Guardiola, after Guardiola said in an interview with the media that he would decide whether to work with the team Manchester City at the end of the season, and also hinted that Tenhach was his potential successor. Tenhach's team requires every player, from goalkeeper to striker, to have excellent passing ability, and even goalkeepers need to do a lot of passing and receiving. During the game, Tenhach asked the team to make full use of the width of the field to complete the operation of the ball, and the full-backs were heavily involved in assists, and the team was required to actively press highs.
Tennhach can boldly discover and reuse new talents in the game, not superstitious big-name players, de Jong, who is currently playing well at Barca, is the rookie that Tenghahe focused on promoting that year, and Van de Beek, who is now loaned to Everton by Manchester United, is also expected to be reused.
Although some Manchester United fans are worried that Tenhahe will repeat the mistakes of Van Gaal, Tenghahe's football philosophy adheres to Guardiola and Cruyff, which is more ornamental, more creative and more in line with the psychological expectations of Manchester United fans than Van Gaal.
Following United's official announcement, Tenhach said, "It is an honour to be appointed as Manchester United manager and I am very excited about the challenges ahead. I know the history of this great club and the passion of the fans, and I am determined to develop a team that can achieve the success it deserves. ”
Upstream journalist Tang Hao