What Should Chelsea Fans Expect from New Manager, Thomas Tuchel?
By: Absalom Mulama
Posted on Wednesday, January 27, 2021
Following Frank Lampard’s surprise sack just on Monday, Chelsea have already picked his successor in former Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) and Dortmund Manager, Thomas Tuchel.
The Blues' fans were left with mixed feelings after Lampard, who most consider their club legend was unceremoniously let go, but however replaced with Tuchel, who seems to be a top flight, high achieving manager himself. Infact, Tuchel left France’s PSG with a record of 95 wins in 127 games, the best win percentage (75.6%) in Ligue 1 history. Today, Chelsea fans are excited after a video of Tuchel’s first training session emerged online. The German coach yesterday penned an 18-year deal with the London Club.
So what changes can the Blues’ fans expect? Tuchel’s management style is described to be similar to Pep Guardiola’s style by Sky German reporter, Sascha Bacinski. “If you want to understand Thomas Tuchel you have to understand Pep Guardiola,” said the German reporter. “Tuchel is something like a football professor, a football intellectual who tries to analyse every part of the game to the last inch of the pitch.”
Pep Guardiola is known to use an attacking strategy in his style of football. He is also known to be a no-nonsense disciplinarian who has managed big-name players in the various teams he has coached. Likewise, Tuchel has handled big-name players such as Neymar, Mbappe and Maurio Icardi at PSG. Infact, he is infamous for once dropping majority of the famous first team players at PSG in favour of the less known younger players, due to disciplinary issues.
Tuchel however seems to be one who does not do very well with authority. Sascha the Sky German reporter describes the 47-year-old manager during his time at Dortmund as one who had some issues with the bosses. “He was successful here at Dortmund but he had some big issues with the bosses,” Said the Sky German reporter. “He didn’t really get along with the Hanz-Joachim Watzke or Michael Zorc, they didn’t really click and that’s the main reason Tuchel had to leave the club.”
Likewise, in his two-year spell with PSG, Tuchel is also said to have had a fractured relationship with the club’s upper management. At the time of his departure from France, he’s said to have fallen out with PSG’s sporting director over midfielder, Danilo Pereira’s transfer. The German coach is quoted to describe himself as more of a football politician than a coach, German television station Sport1.
The big question from fans remains to be, will he help them compete for the local trophies and achieve Champions League football? Will he get along with the strict chelsea owner, Roman Abramovich? Will he unlock the Timo Werner and Kai Havertz’s partnership that we all know is lying potent? Luckily, Chelsea fans will find out in tonight’s Premier League match as they host Wolves at 9pm.
