Thierry Henry: Monaco sack manager after three months in charge By David Ornstein
BBC Sport
Monaco have sacked manager Thierry Henry after 20 games in charge.
The Ligue 1 strugglers announced on Thursday he had been suspended, but BBC Sport understands that is merely procedural and that the France World Cup winner has already left the club.
Predecessor Leonardo Jardim is expected to replace Henry, just over three months after being fired himself.
The 2017 French champions are in the relegation zone after only five wins under Henry in all competitions.
Franck Passi, appointed as Henry's assistant on 20 December, will take training on Friday, the club said.
Passi has previously had spells as caretaker manager of Marseille and Lille.
Henry - who was hired in October - had apologised for using foul language to insult Strasbourg defender Kenny Lala during his side's 5-1 defeat on Saturday.
Arsenal's all-time leading scorer is in his first managerial role, having previously been Belgium assistant boss.
He had been on the shortlist for the Aston Villa manager's job in October before taking the job at the club where he started his playing career.
Analysis French football journalist Julien Laurens on BBC Radio 5 live
This morning, sources at the club were telling everyone his job was safe. Tonight they announced that basically he will be sacked.
Two wins in 12 in the league is clearly not good enough. He insulted a Strasbourg player and there were arguments with some of the media.
Maybe the last straw was deciding to drop some of his first-team players into the reserves without mentioning it to the hierarchy at the club and I think that cost him his job eventually. That wasn't the way the club wanted him to behave. All that put together meant he would no longer be the manager.
Leonardo Jardim still lives in Monaco and sees the players in the street when he goes to the bakery. He's the favourite to replace Henry. He had amazing results, winning the league in 2017, before this season when things didn't go well for the team.
How Thierry Henry lost the AS Monaco dressing room AS Monaco earlier this evening announced that manager Thierry Henry was suspended from all duties until further notice, with assistant manager Franck Passi taking charge of tomorrow’s training session.
This followed a press conference given by Henry this afternoon in which he announced his decision to cull a large number of 1st team players from his set-up in an effort to rid “of individuals who only care about their own futures”.
Henry’s future was already in serious doubt following the 1-5 home less to Strasbourg last Saturday, and the Monaco board had already begun to make plans to nominate Franck Passi into an interim head coach role.
But several reputable Monaco sources had claimed that Henry had another 2 games (against Dijon in Ligue 1 and against Guingamp in the Coupe de la Ligue) to save his job. Despite this, Henry has gone this evening. His suspension as manager of Monaco this evening is merely procedural as reported by the BBC and he has been sacked.
Henry’s win rate was below 25% – he managed Monaco through just 20 games, a run that included 11 defeats, 5 draws and 4 victories.
Sources contacted by Goal France understand that a host of players had begun to consistently complain the Monaco board about the manner in which Thierry Henry treated them, either from the touchline or in day-to-day activities.
An anonymous AS Monaco squad member, on the pitch on the day which the memory he recalls below occurred: “A few matches ago, he screamed: “He, he is supposed to be worth ?10m?” All of the substitutes heard. The message he sent to the players was very negative.”
Another anonymous source close to the Monaco 1st team group added: “He would speak badly to the players, it is a fact. He would also make examples of people and that annoyed a lot of people, he gave this haughty impression as if he would not consider anyone else’s opinion.”
This is no surprise – one merely had to watch Henry in 2019 on the touchline to see just how negative his body language and approach was – taking every missed pass, poor control or questionable refereeing decision hyper-personally and seemingly criticising the relevant people loudly, publicly and aggressively.
What confused many Monaco squad members was this radical change of approach, with Henry having largely started off as calm in front of the press, serene on the touchline, but cracks began to appear as losses built up.
Under considerable pressure, the size of which he could not have imagined when he took the job in the middle of October, Henry no longer responded to staff members and players in the same way and his decision-making became questionable.
Before the Coupe de la Ligue quarter-final encounter with Rennes on 9th January, Thierry Henry decided to give the captain’s armband to Youri Tielemans, stepping in for the absent Falcao.
Although nothing was formally announced to the group, the special relationship shared between Henry and Tielemans, which stretches back to their time together with the Belgian national team, and their lengthy one-on-one conversations during training sessions, suggested that the midfielder was being given the vice-captaincy for the long-term, thus ousting dressing room stalwart and Polish defender Kamil Glik from this position of responsibility in the process.
In doing so, Henry sent a terrible message to the dressing room, passing up an old-head who has stuck by the club in a period of radical transition in favour of a player who has been largely awful throughout the entirety of this campaign so far. Whether or not Henry meant it, it came across as if the former Arsenal man was playing favourites.
His time with Monaco is over, his reign disastrous.
羅力亞
2019-01-25 07:50
It will cost AS Monaco between ?10m & ?15m to formally sack Thierry Henry, according to Nice-Matin.
If Leonardo Jardim does return as AS Monaco boss, with talks well underway, a possible condition of his return will likely be the sacking of Sporting Director Michael Emenalo, who he doesn’t get on with. (N-M)
Article 5.3 of Fifa’s regulations on the status and transfer of players states: “Players may be registered with a maximum of three clubs during one season. During this period, the player is only eligible to play official matches for two clubs.”
Breaking | AS Monaco Sporting Director Michael Emenalo sacked - Leonardo Jardim, who will be pitch-side tomorrow for the game vs Dijon, didn't get on with him & VP Vasilyev thought the work he had done was bad. (RMC)
羅力亞
2019-01-26 08:36
HENRY REPLACED BY JARDIM
Monaco have confirmed that Leonardo Jardim has returned to the club to replace Thierry Henry.
In a statement, Henry, who was suspended as head coach yesterday, has said: "It is with great sadness that I part company with AS Monaco.
"Despite the struggles and difficulties that we encountered along my short journey, I have still thoroughly enjoyed my time at this wonderful club. My ambition and philosophy from the day I joined will always be that the club comes first.
"I strongly believe in this squad of players and that the team with all the recent new signings is now in a better shape to tackle the second part of the season and to go on a winning run and fulfil its full potential."