Tuchel begged for his job for ten minutes on the phone: successor for 18 million euros?
Created: 09/08/2022 10:43 am
By: Stefan Schmid
Surprisingly, Thomas Tuchel was released in the morning after the 1-0 defeat in Zagreb.
Now there are first details about the process and rumors about the successor.
London – The dismissal of the German team manager Thomas Tuchel at Chelsea was the big surprise after the first day of the Champions League.
Tuchel himself had probably not remotely thought that this conversation would await him when he left for the training ground the day after the defeat in Zagreb and now there are already the first rumors about his successor.
The first details of the dismissal and how it should have expired have now become public.
Tuchel: Instead of going to the Chelsea dressing room, we went to the executive floor
Thomas Tuchel, who demonstratively stood in front of his team after the failed Champions League start, wanted to join his team in the dressing room at the Cobham Training Ground on Wednesday morning, where they were supposed to pick up their lectures.
But along the way, according to
The Sun
, he was summoned to a boardroom conference.
The other participants in the conference, Chelsea owner Todd Boehly and co-owner Behdad Eghbali, are said not to have done the honor in person, but only spoke to Tuchel over the phone.
What followed was a ten-minute conversation that ended with the dismissal of the German coach, which hit the football landscape like a bomb.
By the time the unexpected news got through to Tuchel himself, he is said to have begged the owners to give him some more time with the team.
He was convinced to the last that he could turn the rudder of the Blues around with him at the top.
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Possible Tuchel successors already known – rumors about Ronaldo
Professional football is generally a fast-moving business, so it is not surprising that a successor to Tuchel is already set to become concrete.
According to information from various British media, Graham Potter, coach of Premier League rivals Brighton & Hove Albion, is said to be at the top of Chelsea owner Boehly's wish list.
Release clause for the Englishman: 18 million euros.
SunSport
also brings two other well-known coaches into play in Mauricio Pochettino and Zinedine Zidane.
When it comes to the dismissal of Tuchel, a picture is now emerging that is not solely due to the sporting successes of the German in his function as team manager.
Tuchel is said to have drawn the ire of Chelsea owner Todd Boehly when he voted against signing Cristiano Ronaldo.
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