Although the hope of competing for four still exists, after the 0-4 defeat of the double red club last week, Manchester United, which has always been hindsighted, finally rushed to an early set.
On the evening of the 21st, Manchester United officially announced that Ajax's 52-year-old Dutch coach Tenhag will coach the team from next season, and the two sides will sign a three-year contract. Since Ferguson left in 2013, Dream Theater has welcomed its 8th helmsman.
Late last fall, United began an early lookout for a manager before Solskjaer left, but the results were not optimistic. Lonnick, who has only been fighting fires for half a season, has a 47% win rate of the lower limit of the Manchester United manager in the Premier League era, while Pochettino, who has been in the scandal with Manchester United for many years, only Ten haag is left to choose from.
Tenhag has finally fulfilled his dream of coaching at the giants.
The Red Devils' change of coach is not news, but whether it is the famous Mourinho and Van Gaal, or the concubines Moyes and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, all of them have come and gone.
Tenhag, who has a strong personality, where will he go in Old Trafford?
Scold you and join you
As the only manchester United manager to accept two rounds of interviews, The first meeting between Tenhag and the new owner was a "criticism fight" that the Red Devils executives were caught off guard.
On 6 April, Manchester United's technical director Fletcher and football director Murtaugh flew to Amsterdam to meet with Tenhag. However, before the two sides could say hello, Tenghag unceremoniously showed his plans for Manchester United next season.
In addition to the introduction of Ajax players, the departure list has been listed, and when it comes to xingnong, the Dutchman directly rebuked Manchester United's pain points: "You have deviated from the track of the title race!" ”
At this meeting, the Manchester United duo, who were almost overwhelmed by Tenhag's spit stars, embarked on the way home in shame and shock. The British media quipped: "It's not like Manchester United interviewing Tenhag, but like the Dutch interviewing Manchester United." ”
A week later, manchester United CEO Richard Arnold's second round of interviews was once again a "big face-punching scene". This time, Tenhag criticized the recruitment of players and the structure of the team at Manchester United – in short, inaction and nonsense at the top.
After two rounds of interviews, the Manchester United executives spent several days digesting the psychological shadow brought by the Dutchman - the decision-makers who were about to work with the team, and refuted the Red Devils operation to the point of exhaustion in 9 years, which was the first time in 9 years.
Compared with Pochettino, who had secretly sent Autumn Wave to Manchester United for a long time, but was only willing to accept interviews through video connection, Tenghag's "deep love, responsibility cut", finally impressed the Manchester United executives.
After all, the "harmonious" atmosphere in the Manchester United squad when a monk strikes a day's clock has long been proved to be more harmful than beneficial, so why not tear it down and start over?
Of course, Tenghag impressed Manchester United with more than just sharp teeth. As the strongest in the Dutch coaching world, Tenghag, who has entered the capital step by step from a small team, is quite good at "dry goods".
After spending the "Novice Village" between Bayern II and Utrecht, Tenhag, who took over Ajax halfway through the 2017-2018 season, implemented his personal tactical thinking with a tough attitude, and never let the Dutch League champions fall by the way since the 2018-2019 season, and also trained de Ligt, De Jong, Ziyech and other stars.
In the 2018-2019 season, Ajax was only one minute away from reaching the Champions League final, and after all the above stars left the team, the team played a stunning record of winning the group stage this season.
Last March, Tenhag set a new Dutch A record with an average of 2.43 points per game in his first 100 games in charge. In January, he won the Eredivisie with just 128 league games, also unprecedented.
Considering that Ajax has a long history and the Dutch sports media has always been known for its relentless critical thinking, the backgroundless Tenghag has not only maintained the team's appreciation and competitiveness, but also labeled the team a distinct label, which is undoubtedly the ideal choice for Manchester United, which has been mentioned frequently by the word "reconstruction".
Most like Guardiola's detail control
This season, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Lonnick have suffered, and the rough branches of tactical design are hard to blame. Compared to his two predecessors, Tenhag is almost morbidly harsh on details, like another leader in Manchester, Guardiola.
Do bald coaches all have obsessive-compulsive disorder? Tenhag has long proved this.
At Ajax, his most famous passage is that different colored vests must be placed together during training, and even the color of the socks must be the same when players are grouped against each other. Players must collectively walk from the locker room to the training ground during training, and procrastination and groups of three or five are not allowed.
In terms of training details, Tenhag also looked at Guardiola. The Spaniards had told the tactical essentials in rich body language, which puzzled the Stirling monks, while Tenhag prepared a thick tactical command for his men, a detailed plan for the first 6 weeks of the season, accurate to every minute of every day.
Tenhag's training is very strict.
As a famous golden sentence maker in the Premier League, Guardiola often plays a wonderful metaphor at the press conference, and Teng haag is also a "talking idiot", he can not only talk to the media for 30 minutes of tactics, but also stop the group confrontation at 30 second intervals and explain the details to each player.
In terms of innovation, as early as 10 years ago, Tenghag, who led the team independently for a long time, also showed a strong forward-looking:
Even for a small Dutch team like the Forward Eagles, Tenhag arranged for a video editor to edit the highlights of each player's game, watching and analyzing them one by one with his men; he also set up a bed in the locker room so that the players could sleep and rest between training sessions.
However, Tenghag's almost stubborn repetition of training content and extremely demanding performance in player training have also aroused the dissatisfaction of his subordinates. Although Ajax's young people have benefited a lot as a result, it is really difficult to push this model in Manchester United, where the players are much more famous than the manager.
Next season's Manchester United, who will go and who will stay?
People's hearts are scattered, how to bring the team?
For Tenhag, the problems in The Manchester United dressing room are indeed the most intractable.
According to British media analysis, C Ronaldo, who carries at least half of the sky on the offensive end, is likely to be out of Tenghag's plan. So, who can United rely on next season?
Moody and sickly Pogba? Marcus Rashford, who is in decline so much that he doesn't even know himself? Or is it the name of Maguire, Martial and other fans whose blood pressure has soared when they mention it?
Fortunately, the coaching staff named by Tenhach has some old acquaintances of players.
According to the Dutch concept, in addition to his deputy at Ajax, Van der Gag, former England manager McLaren, who worked in the Dutch first division, will also be one of the two assistant coaches.
For McLaren, who was once a vice-admiral of Ferguson and has faded from the front line in recent years, such a role is familiar, and he will even be the only link between the new coach and the players.
In a sense, Tenghag's long list of reinforcements and purges is not a murderous threat, but an imperative.
When Ferguson came to Manchester from Aberdeen in 1986, his first act was to quickly weed out the players who were always late and drunk on the training ground, and to output Peter Barnes as a negative archaic.
After this shock therapy, Manchester United started with the European Cup Winners' Cup, and began to revive step by step, finally ushering in its own 1990s.
At present, Tenhag will certainly not be able to get a bargain from Guardiola and Klopp in the short term, and close hand-to-hand combat with Tuchel, Arteta and Conte will be the norm that he must face in his Manchester United career.
However, if we can implement personal tactical thinking, eliminate the negative assets of a large number of teams, and establish the core as soon as possible to slim down and reduce the burden, then the Dutchman's trip to Manchester City has returned to the cost. (Supine Braces/Yang Jian)
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