Thomas Tuchel – a European and environment winner with Chelsea – is wanting for get the job done, although Bayern Munich are at the moment fifth in the Bundesliga under Julian Nagelsmann…
Tuchel’s sacking by Todd Boehly previously this thirty day period sent shockwaves by European soccer. The US billionaire experienced sanctioned a paying spree of nearly €300 million this summertime, and the German tactician would have felt assured of being the man to steer his new players to glory.
Soon after all, this is a manager who finetuned an abject Frank Lampard ensemble and led them to Champions League glory in Could 2021, and he gained the FIFA Club Earth Cup with them as not too long ago as February.
*glass smashes*
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But disagreements with the new ownership over player recruitment suggest that Tuchel is out on his ear, replaced by Graham Potter, who has arrived from Brighton.
Nagelsmann, in the meantime, is floundering at Bayern. Tipped as Germany’s best young coaching prospect – a title the moment firmly Tuchel’s – he has struggled to get the Bundesliga champions firing this season, with Saturday’s 1- decline to Augsburg meaning they have dropped nine of the previous 12 possible details.
Bayern CEO Oliver Kahn gave him the customary kiss of dying after that abject defeat.
“We are not dealing with any other coaches now,” he explained to Sky Germany. “We’re entirely persuaded of Julian.
“Of class, we are all dissatisfied, in a negative temper. We have to get to the bottom of it all, and presume that as shortly as we start out yet again in opposition to Leverkusen, we will and have to assault thoroughly.
“We will see which levers we can shift so that we can speedily get back again on the street to success in the Bundesliga.”
Lewy-a lot less Bayern would suit Tuchel
1 of individuals levers is evidently a new head coach. Granted, Nagelsmann misplaced his top scorer Robert Lewandowski to Barcelona in a €50m transfer this summer season, but that he has since failed to get a tune out of Sadio Mane – a €41m arrival from Liverpool – Serge Gnabry or Thomas Muller is really damning.
They have scored six league goals in between them this term. Lewandowski has managed 8 on his personal in La Liga.
But a single striker should really not a fantastic workforce unmake, and contrast that to Tuchel’s expertise with Romelu Lukaku at Chelsea.
Lukaku returned to Chelsea from Inter Milan amid significantly fanfare final summer, the Blues investing €111.1m on a participant who experienced scored 64 goals in 95 games with Inter Milan, lifting the Serie A title in 2021 alongside the way.
But compared with Nagelsmann at Bayern, Tuchel would somewhat not use a striker. Phony 9 Kai Havertz had scored the winner towards Manchester City in the Champions League remaining, and Lukaku was relegated to a little bit-aspect function previous season in advance of returning to Inter on loan.
Nagelsmann has applied a 4-2-3-1 formation – however without having a No.9 – additional normally than not this season. Tuchel’s favored system is a 3-4-3 with wingbacks and a fluid entrance 3, and Bayern have stunning personnel to populate it, with Leroy Sane and Jamal Musiala also on their books.
Kahn might not want to search at other coaches right now. But with Tuchel accessible, he would be mad not to.
