The season is not over yet, but United's next manager has officially surfaced, and he is the current Ajax manager Tenhag. If nothing else, the 52-year-old Dutchman's shining brain is easily reminiscent of another manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola. In fact, between July 2013 and June 2015, Tenhag gave up his position as manager of the Dutch first-team club to commit Bayern as coach of the second team, in order to learn from the then Bayern first-team manager Pep Guardiola. And he is 11 and a half months older than Guardiola. This experience will also make Manchester United fans expect more from him.
This season has been a nightmare season for Manchester United, they signed the French international center-back Varane, who won the Real Madrid championship, the introduction of the talented winger Sancho, who is half the sky of European football, and of course, the return of Cristiano Ronaldo. But more than half a season has passed, Manchester United not only in all three cups, but even the top four in the Premier League have little hope, compared with last season's Premier League Europa League double runner-up, this record is really bleak. Watching the manchester city next door marching on multiple lines, and Liverpool, which spends a lot less money than themselves, is even more popular on the fourth line, the hearts of Manchester United fans are estimated to be mixed, in this case, the arrival of Tenghag undoubtedly makes them see hope again.
Tenhag has no ability to coach Manchester United, of course. This is a coach who is very good at developing and promoting young players. In the 2018/19 season, he led the young Jaffa all the way to Juve and Real Madrid to reach the final four of the Champions League, and as a result, after that season, the absolute main players such as De Ligt, De Jong, Ziyech and Van de Beek were poached one after another, but in this case, Tenghag led the severely bloodied Ajax quickly regained its competitiveness, not only still dominated the Dutch First Division, but also had a very good performance in Europe, which was impressive.
Today's Manchester United, really a bit like the almost bought out Ajax 2 years ago, Pogba, Lingard, Mata, Cavani and other people will leave the team in the summer, and a one-year contract Nemanja Matic also publicly said that he would leave at the end of the season, after losing these players, Manchester United is really a posture to regroup for the future. Tenghag, who twice delivered satisfactory answers at Ajax, let the Red Devils see how pleasing to the eye.
As a football coach, Tenhag's meticulousness reached an outrageous point, his pockets were always stuffed with all kinds of small notes, and he attached great importance to each opponent and did not want to leave any chance for the opponent. He would even ask his players to wear the same socks for training. The reason why he is willing to go to Bayern as the manager of the second team is also to learn Guardiola's tactical concept and let himself grow further.
In fact, if United were willing to give Tenhag enough time and patience, there should have been a surprising reward, but after Ferguson's retirement, United became a club that was very unfriendly to the coach, just like Chelsea. Moyes was too shallow to be dismissed early, and Louis van Gaal put in a lot of effort, but while he was still in the managerial position, United were already eye-catching with Mourinho. The latter brought the League Cup, Europa League And Community Shield titles to Manchester United in its first season, and in the second season, City was helpless to be relegated to the second place. But the conflict with management and the dressing room led to the final dismissal of Mourinho. As for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, who was once considered to be on the right path with Manchester United, even if he has Manchester United DNA, he does not have much say in terms of reinforcements, van der Beek and C Ronaldo are both forced to him by Manchester United, and he does not even have the courage to decide for himself whether Ronaldo will play.
Compared with Manchester City next door, the owner and management of Manchester United are good at business operations, and Ed Woodward, who has left, has made a lot of money for Manchester United, but in the field of football, he can be called a layman, so in recent years, Manchester United has lacked competitive players in many positions on the one hand, and on the other hand, the squad is bloated. Even Mourinho, who was clamoring for the club to buy him a centre-back, also had 6 centre-backs such as Blind, Lindelof, Bailly, Jones, Rojo and Smalling, most of which were given by manchester United's management. In fact, before Manchester United signed Mourinho, they also had contact with Guardiola and Klopp, and the two coaches invariably chose to refuse, and the management's dimwittedness and lack of clear team building policy were the reasons for their staying away. And Mourinho, who took over Manchester United with commendable courage, was also ousted for these reasons.
Speaking of Tenghag, this is not a Ole Gunnar Solskjaer-style high emotional intelligence manager, on the contrary, his temper is very big, tough personality, full of opinion and sense of purpose, these are the qualities that Manchester United need to revive, the key is whether the Manchester United executives can realize this, whether they are willing to delegate power to this character manager, so that he has enough time to achieve his grand plans, and whether Ferguson and Manchester United's famous players can close their mouths and talk about it is also very important.