At one time, Henri’s own football career began in Monaco, where he declared his talent for the whole of football Europe.. However, if the “princely club” Thierry perfectly suited for the start of a player’s career, then for the coaching debut the current Monaco is the most unfortunate option that could be found in five European top championships.

In 2014, Monegasques led Leonard Jardim, who over the past 4 seasons went through a full cycle with the “princely club”. In the first two years, he laid a serious foundation on which one of the best teams in the history of Monaco was built already in the 2016-2017 season, winning the national championship against such a financial titan as PSG and reaching the Champions League semi-finals, defeating Manchester City and Dortmund Borussia.

This was followed by the inevitable decline for a club like Monaco.. The main stars in the face of Kilian Mbappa, Bernard Silva, Benjamin Mendi and Tiemue Bakayoko were bought up by financially successful top clubs, and the newcomers in the face of Rashid Gezzal, Stevan Yovetic and Balde Keith did not justify their transfers. As a result, Jardim still managed to squeeze out the last juices from the team and finish in Ligue 1 in second place, but the position in the team was not stabilized at all, but on the contrary, it went out of control. In the summer of 2018, Fabinho and Tom Lemar also left Monaco, as well as having spent only a year in the team of Gezzal and Keita, while from high-profile signatures it is possible to single out the young Russian star Alexander Golovin who did not play, and the experienced Nasser Shadli, who is not just a good player will call.

Such a rapid deterioration in the composition over two seasons resulted in a terrifying start of the campaign 2018-2019 for Monaco.. Victory in the first round over Nantes is still the only one for Monegasques in all tournaments this season.. After it, the “princely club” lost four times and three times played a draw in the national championship, which led to the dismissal of the outgoing Zhardim.

The leadership of Monaco had the task of finding a new coach for the team, and Thierry Henry decided to head his own club.

The legendary Frenchman, after completing his football career, worked as an expert on Sky Sports for two years, and he achieved some success in this matter.. Fans liked Henri’s sober look at many events and a very deep analytics from Thierry, who proved that he can not only play football, but also knows a lot about the tactical aspects of this sport..

Over time, the work on television for the French was not enough, and he decided to start his own coaching career. Having completed the necessary training, he made a very good step in general: he got a job as an assistant to Roberto Martinez in the national team of Belgium. In this post, Thierry had an excellent chance to gain experience, being next to a renowned Spanish specialist, to study all the subtleties of the training process and even get the opportunity to work with stellar performers, who in the Belgian team have more than enough. Henri took a fairly smooth start, but when it came time to head the team himself, Thierry made far from the best choice..

To restore order in the current crisis of Monaco would be a daunting task, even for a seasoned and experienced specialist, not to mention a debutant coach.. Henri, like any young specialist, came to the team with his "dreamy" vision of football. Thierry wants his players to demonstrate a beautiful combination game, show not only the result, but also the content. He is eager to make a revolution, to build a great and bright team - but in Monaco this is not the time and not the place for. In other words, Henri is trying to make design repairs in a burning building, not realizing that everything is about to burn to the ground..

Thierry’s first unsuccessful results are an indication that he has not yet been able to stabilize the situation in Monaco.. There are doubts that the Frenchman tried to do this at all, since his players, instead of biting their teeth in every match and tearing out a vital result, continue to try to build an open and attacking style of play under the obvious influence of a young and ambitious coach..

Is it difficult for Henri to overcome the crisis situation in principle?. He has very little experience for this, however, it is quite possible Thierry has great coaching talent and can correct the current state of affairs.. Another question is that at this stage of their career, such problems were absolutely unnecessary for the Frenchman.. Now Henri would have looked much better in the average club of the Champion, which does not set maximum goals for itself, is not in crisis and can afford experiments and creative impulses of a young, promising and full desire to create something wonderful coach.. Such a club for Thierry could be Aston Villa, who had been negotiating with a Frenchman for a long time.. Nevertheless, Henri rather recklessly chose Monaco, wishing to help his own team, while paying for it too high as for the debutant coach price.

The fact that the choice of his current job Thierry looked through rose-colored glasses said his first interview as head coach of the Monegasques, in which he said that the "princely club" still has a chance to finish in the top 3 of the French championship. Obviously, Henri did not realize the complexity of the situation in which Monaco is now located, because the objective current task for this team is to maintain registration in the elite French division..

In the last failures of Henri, there is also a share of bad luck, because a real epidemic of injuries began in the camp of the Monegasques, including damage to goalkeeper Daniel Subachic, midfielder Adam Traore, promising young striker Pietro Pellegri and five more footballers.

At the moment, the results of Monaco with Thierry are very depressing: the Frenchman failed to win any of the 6 matches, tied twice and lost four times. In addition to this, Henri recorded a number of anti-records, including the largest home defeat in the Champions League in the history of the club (0: 4 from Brugge) and the longest unsuccessful series since 1969, which began even Zhardim, consisting of 15 matches without victories (10 losses and 5 draws).

Monaco Henri did not hold a single dry match, scored only 4 goals with 53 hits and has the lowest score in the history of the club in Ligue 1 after 13 rounds - 7.

The work of Thierry Henry at the helm of Monaco is likely to end with the dismissal before the end of this season. In no case should you brand a Frenchman, call him a “fizruk” and sling mud in every possible way.. What is he, Henri-trainer - we still do not know, and his work in the "princely club" will not answer this question. It is quite possible that in the future Thierry will become a truly great specialist and build his dream team.. In the meantime, at the start of his career, he was very much mistaken, leading Monaco. I want to believe that this mistake will not be fatal and will not cost Henri a career that will go downhill before it starts.