Henry failed but it’s not the end

Henry failed but it’s not the end

On October 13, the former French striker Thierry Henry, best known for playing for Monaco and Arsenal, led the home team. However, after the failure of Leonardo Jardim in the current season, Henri has not yet improved the results of the Monegasques and is close to following in the footsteps of Gary Neville, or even surpass him.

Is it possible to surpass the "achievement" of Gary Neville, who spent only four months in Valencia? Yes, if Henry is not fired earlier or he does not resign. But more about that a little further.

Thierry Henry began coaching at Arsenal as an assistant to his mentor Arsene Wenger. The French coach helped Henry take the first steps as a manager, and then the ex-forward moved to the Belgian national team, where he helped Roberto Martinez and contributed to the Devils’ bronze awards. Before coming to Monaco, Henry also had an offer from Aston Villa, which runs in the middle of the tournament table. There he would not have been charged with responsibility, as in Monaco, but Thierry chose to return to the alma mater.

In the first match, he lost to Strasbourg 2:1 and after that did not achieve a single victory as the head of the Monegasques. Six matches, 0:4 defeats against Brugge and PSG, the defeats against Reims and Strasbourg, as well as draws with Dijon and Brugge. This is the result of Henry’s three-week work at the club. In the club, which has a dozen players in the infirmary with defense leader Camille Glick, progressive football player of the last season Roni Lopes, best team assistant Alexander Golovin and forward Jovetic.

Caught in a stalemate, Henry attracts young people who are not able to immediately produce results. Yes, and in perspective, the current juniors of Monaco do not resemble Kylian Mbappe. On top of that, the young coach is trying to copy the game of previous teachers. However, what is the point in the scheme of 3-4-2-1 sample of the Belgian national team, if there is no De Bruyne and Hazard in the composition, and Axel Witsel doesn’t clean it up in the support zone?

A blow to the ambitions of the club was the opening of the criminal prosecution of the President of Monaco Dmitry Rybolovlyev. The functionary is not up to the problems of his football toy. Therefore, in the absence of the main players in the line-up and help from the leadership, Henri is waiting for the collapse of worse than Neville. Worse, he will be due to the fact that he will remain until the end of the season and may fall into League 2, disappointing fans around the world. The meaning is simple, as stated in the movie Fight Club: "We met in a very strange period of my life". How the last scene of the film ended, I think, is known to everyone.