Three things that 'definitely' happen to Chelsea when Thomas Tuchel leaves Bayern Munich
Since 2020 Thomas Tuchel has had a career like no other. His list of honours includes the Champions League, Ligue 1, FIFA Club World Cup, UEFA Super Cup, Bundesliga, French Super Cup, and French League Cup — a sizeable haul for a manager across three jobs and some chaotic circumstances.
Expand that to include runners-up finishes and there are second-place medals for the German Super Cup, Champions League, two FA Cups, and a Carabao Cup as well. In the trio of jobs — two of which have come mid-season — he has a curious record.
The narrative was, in 2021 when he replaced Frank Lampard at Chelsea, that he could not work within a hierarchy. He fell out with the higher-ups at Paris Saint-Germain (then again, who hasn't and doesn't?), and couldn't make things stick with Borussia Dortmund in his final season. Chelsea were warned of his problems, and the red flags were evident before his arrival.
For 10 months at Stamford Bridge that all looked to have changed though. Tuchel was charismatic, he smiled like a champion, set his team up in a coordinated manner, won games of football with grace and grit, and radiated winner in a way that the previous two bosses simply hadn't. This was, after two tricky jobs prior, the best version of Tuchel there had been.
He had no hiccups with Roman Abramovich (who only went face-to-face with him for the first time after the Champions League was won in Porto), and worked well with Marina Granovskaia and Petr Cech as the go-between. He fronted up as the public-facing figure for the club's involvement in the European Super League less than three months after arriving, it was eventually he who had to answer most questions about Abramovich being sanctioned by the UK Government in 2022.
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