England should be English, three days after making the case for Pep Guardiola taking the job.
Thomas Tuchel, a German with a questionable managerial background and an FA running around like headless chickens in a panic to get in first before Manchester United. Lee Carsley clearly wasn’t the right man, but is this REALLY the best we can do?
Has nobody learned from the ‘take-the-money-and-run’ attitude of Sven-Goran Eriksson and Fabio Capello?
And what does this say about the English coaching system? How insulting, ignorant and unforgivably short-sighted. Would Spain or France take this approach?
We may have made an exception for the mighty Pep Guardiola, but now we have a gun for hire who owes us nothing and will pass through our game with a huge cheque and no connection to the fans or players.
This is a dark day for English football. We are the laughing stock of the world game.
England through to the conclusion of the Nations League group stage next month, with games away to Greece and at home to Republic of Ireland. Carsley will then return to lead England’s Under-21s.
inheriting a broken unit from Frank Lampard in January 2021.
They were champions of Europe four months later, stunning Pep Guardiola and Manchester City in a tense final in Porto after perfectly carrying out Tuchel’s plan. It was a remarkable achievement. Chelsea were flailing in mid-table when the German who has agreed to be England’s next manager took over. They were shipping goals at an alarming rate. Undeterred, Tuchel immediately ironed out the flaws and introduced a 3-4-2-1 system that turned Chelsea into the stingiest team in Europe.
The full article here.
wanted to keep him as manager last season, but ultimately Tuchel walked. He is certainly well respected in his homeland and so nearly beat Real Madrid in the Champions League semi-final last season.
It’s true, though, that he’s not Germany’s No 1 son. Tuchel has managed in Germany with Mainz, Dortmund and Bayern, but the majority of the silverware he has won has been in England and France. His stewardship at Bayern and Dortmund (post-Klopp) was often fraught.
Barney Ronay’s piece.
With Tuchel now on the verge, it seems the current executive are in fact close to an objectively impressive piece of recruitment. While objectivity has never really had much place around here, Tuchel will represent a significant departure in two obvious ways.
For starters, this would be the first time the FA has appointed a coach who has worked in England and won the European Cup. Fabio Capello had the second of these, and undertook the first with all the infectious enthusiasm of a man cleaning out a particularly noxious cat litter tray. Don Revie and Bobby Robson won European trophies. Sven-Göran Eriksson hoovered up some high-spec silverware.
But Tuchel is something more specific. This is a former Uefa men’s coach of the year, who led two clubs to the final of the Champions League in three years. Plus, of course, alongside quite a few misses, he has that obvious recent major final victory, achieved with an English team, or at least one containing three English players in the squad for the final.
If the idea is to retain the possession-centred systems football of the England DNA years, while infusing this with some knowledge of how to actually win big games in the saddle; if being sacked for failing to appreciate Todd Boehly’s Monopoly-on-acid vision of team building can be considered in retrospect a massive tick; then Tuchel fits the job description very well.
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Tuchel is expected to be officially unveiled as England manager on Wednesday at a press conference from Wembley.
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Tuchel topped a list that also included Manchester City’s Pep Guardiola and the interim manager, Lee Carsley, among others.
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The 51-year-old will be the third foreign manager of the men’s team and the first from Germany, after Sven-Göran Eriksson and Fabio Capello. Eddie Howe and Graham Potter were the leading English candidates but the FA’s chief executive, Mark Bullingham, who led the recruitment process alongside the technical director, John McDermott, has long been clear that nationality should be no barrier to the role.
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England captain Harry Kane has spoken: “Until it’s announced obviously I can’t really comment, but we have to wait and see. Obviously, I know Thomas well from last year. Fantastic coach, fantastic person, so I am sure the guys at the FA will contact me, when they know more about it.”
Pep Guardiola as its dream target to manage England men, with Thomas Tuchel believed to have reservations about the role. Now, the FA are on the verge on confirming the German at the new custodian of English football.
Who can complain about that? He’s a creative, winning manager, knows the English game, and it probably the outstanding candidate of those that are available (or who wants the job). That might only be half the role but Tuchel has nimbly managed difficult situations in the past at Chelsea and Bayern, and he already has the respect of the players. Oh, and at least there won’t be too much furore over whether Tuchel sings ‘God Save The King’.
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Source: theguardian.com
