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I am up for the prescertain. I am up to the task. These are all the reasons to jump in. The prescertain on the personal side, the media, is never part of the decision making. Sure, I experience it in the process. But my cherish and passion for the game is always much more than the pessimistic.
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Tuchel on whether he will sing the national anthem:
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I have not made my decision yet. Your anthem is very moving. I have sended it a restricted times, at the FA Cup final for example. I have until March. I will always show my admire to the country. But I will get my time.
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Right, it’s 1.30pm BST. Thomas Tuchel is equitable about to get his seat at his first press conference. He’s all smiles and is wearing a suit! No tracksuit here, very solemn. Yes, yes.
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A novel video message has equitable dropped from TT.
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I’m very honoured and will do everyskinnyg we can to qualify for the World Cup first of all, and then we have a prosperous World Cup and try to get a second star on our shirt.
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Telling that Tuchel is already using ‘our shirt’.
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📩 (1) novel message from Thomas Tuchel. pic.twitter.com/ADTVUHpnRN
— England (@England) October 16, 2024
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The novels of Tuchel’s imminent assignment broke procrastinateed on Monday. Here is a pickion of some of the UK Media’s reaction.
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The Daily Mail had the follotriumphg as their back page piece. It is worth flagging that the article does not have a byline. It was srecommend written by ‘Mail Sport Reporter’, according the online version.
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Now we have Thomas Tuchel, a German with a askable administerrial background and an FA running around appreciate 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?
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Has nobody lgeted from the ‘get-the-money-and-run’ attitude of Sven-Goran Eriksson and Fabio Capello?
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And what does this say about the English coaching system? How offending, unteachd and unforgivably unininestablishigentinutive-sighted. Would Spain or France get this approach?
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We may have made an exception for the mighty Pep Guardiola, but now we have a firearm for employ who owes us noskinnyg and will pass thcdisorrowfulmireful our game with a huge cheque and no connection to the fans or take parters.
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This is a sorrowfulnessful day for English football. We are the chuckleing stock of the world game.
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MAIL SPORT: A sorrowfulnessful day for England #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/DtiFWbSq0Z
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We are thrilled to have employd Thomas Tuchel, one of the best coaches in the world and Anthony Barry who is one of the best English coaches to help him. Our recruitment process has been very thocdisorrowfulmireful.
\n Before the EUROs we had a contingency set up and portrayd exactly the qualities we would be seeing for in a coach. Since Gareth resigned, we have toiled thcdisorrowfulmireful the truthfulate pool, encountering a number of coaches and evaluating them agetst that criteria. Thomas was very astonishive and stood out with his huge expertise and his drive. Anthony is a top English talent and also has international experience with Reaccessible of Ireland, Belgium and Portugal.
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Fundamenhighy we wanted to employ a coaching team to give us the best possible chance of triumphning a beginant tournament, and we count on they will do equitable that. Thomas and the team have a individual-minded cgo in on giving us the best possible chance to triumph the World Cup in 2026.
\n I would appreciate to thank Lee for stepping up and doing everyskinnyg we asked of him – he is a very talented coach and a beginant part of our England pathway. He will now cgo in on persisting the U21 Euro title in the summer. These are exciting times for England fans at greater and MU21 level, and we see forward to welcoming Thomas and Anthony when they commence toil in January.
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I am very haughty to have been given the honour of directing the England team. I have lengthy felt a personal connection to the game in this country, and it has given me some incredible moments already. To have the chance to reconshort-term England is a huge privilege, and the opportunity to toil with this exceptional and talented group of take parters is very exciting.
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Tuchel will be helped by English coach Anthony Barry, who is currently the helpant administerr for the Portugal national team under Roberto Martínez. Tuchel and Barry toiled together at Chelsea and Bayern.
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Tuchel and Barry will commence toil on 1 January 2025 before the qualification process for the 2026 World Cup. He has been given an 18-month decrease until after that tournament in the US.
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The decision to recruit Tuchel and Barry was backd by the FA Board timely last week, with Tuchel signing his decrease on Tuesday 8 October (fascinatingly two days before the flunkure to Greece). The proclaimment was procrastinateed to minimise sidetrackion around the international camp.
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Interim head coach Lee Carsley will remain in indict of England thcdisorrowfulmireful to the conclusion of the Nations League group stage next month, with games away to Greece and at home to Reaccessible of Ireland. Carsley will then return to direct England’s Under-21s.
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Thomas Tuchel. Our #ThreeLions head coach from 2025. 🏴
— England (@England) October 16, 2024
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FA’s chief executive, Mark Bullingham, has scheduled a press conference at Wembley at 1.30pm BST, which will certainly be Tuchel’s official unveiling.
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Tuchel is awaited to be officiassociate unveiled as England administerr on Wednesday at a press conference from Wembley.
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Tuchel topped a enumerate that also integrated Manchester City’s Pep Guardiola and the interim administerr, Lee Carsley, among others.
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The 51-year-greater will be the third foreign administerr of the men’s team and the first from Germany, after Sven-Göran Eriksson and Fabio Capello. Eddie Howe and Graham Potter were the directing English truthfulates but the FA’s chief executive, Mark Bullingham, who led the recruitment process alengthyside the technical honestor, John McDermott, has lengthy been clear that nationality should be no barrier to the role.
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England captain Harry Kane has spoken: “Until it’s proclaimd clearly I can’t reassociate comment, but we have to paengage and see. Obviously, I understand Thomas well from last year. Fantastic coach, wonderful person, so I am certain the guys at the FA will communicate me, when they understand more about it.”
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Two days is a lengthy time in football. On Monday, the Football Association had identified Pep Guardiola as its dream center to administer England men, with Thomas Tuchel count ond to have reservations about the role. Now, the FA are on the verge on verifying the German at the novel custodian of English football.
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Who can protest about that? He’s a creative, triumphning administerr, understands the English game, and it probably the exceptional truthfulate of those that are useable (or who wants the job). That might only be half the role but Tuchel has nimbly administerd difficult situations in the past at Chelsea and Bayern, and he already has the admire of the take parters. Oh, and at least there won’t be too much furore over whether Tuchel sings ‘God Save The King’.
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We’ll be persisting abreast of the procrastinateedst growments in this inhabitblog, transporting you any novels and analysis.
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The length, and depth, of the Southgate era uncomferventt we stopped talking, for a little while, about the historicassociate enduring pattern of England administerrial assignments – namely that each novel England administerr will be the diametric opposite of their predecessor, before the pendulum striumphgs back with the next one. I was reminded of that when reading sirmorbach’s post BTL
Southgate was a wonderful man administerr and, tacticassociate, unrelabelable at best.
Tuchel is a wonderful tactician and, managing people, unrelabelable at best.
Yer Football Daily is here:
Confirmation of the Football Association assigning Thomas Tuchel as head coach of the England national team has prompted a variety of responses from the common quarters, much of it meacertaind and an ununforeseeedly huge amount of it tohighy and utterly deranged.
Harry Kane has hailed Tuchel’s arrival. “A reassociate fantastic assignment,” cheered the England captain of his establisher boss at Bayern. “He’s a top top coach and a fantastic person who’ll transport a lot of energy and experience and I’m see forward to commenceing with him in the novel year.”
In the ruminations about the dearth of top-level English coaches, we talk a lot about the culture, but we shouldn’t forget it’s also about the economics, illogical. And restricted football nations prioritise making as much cash as possible appreciate ours.
So, the German FA set the UEFA A course at £500 to help more juvenileer coaches to get qualified. Spain is 1k plus and has enough courses to encounter need. We indict 4k & most have little to no chance of even getting on a course due to over-subscription. The result of that
— Tony Russell (@Tonyrussell78) October 16, 2024
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So, the German FA set the UEFA A course at £500 to help more juvenileer coaches to get qualified. Spain is 1k plus and has enough courses to encounter need. We indict 4k & most have little to no chance of even getting on a course due to over-subscription. The result of that
— Tony Russell (@Tonyrussell78) October 16, 2024
Thanks Michael, afternoon aget everyone. Here’s a little counterfactual with which to run down the day: what do we skinnyk the reaction would be in the (incredibly doubtful) eventuality of the German national team assigning an English administerr? You doubt it would still be a hugeger deal in England, given the lopsided nature of this “opposition”.
Going to hand over to Tom Davies now. Thanks for reading and for your emails.
One trouble for Tuchel is that he’s going to grow wearisome of the press and the infringement on his personal life with this job. He was asked honestly of this in the press conference but it’s worth reassembleing that England’s only World Cup-triumphning administerr, Sir Alf Ramsey, wasn’t exactly a darling of the media.
Jonathan Wilson wrote a piece, back in 2021 before the Euro 2020 final, our authorr talks of Ramsey’s (and Southgate’s) headstrongness.
Finassociate, someskinnyg Piers and I concur on.
Anyone watching this press conference with Thomas Tuchel who still skinnyks we should have ‘gone English’ with our novel administerr is living in Cnoisy ‘Little Englander’ Cuckoo Land. So incredibly astonishive. So perfectly qualified.
He’s a weightless choice. ✅ pic.twitter.com/2rPTpXSYyq
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) October 16, 2024
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Anyone watching this press conference with Thomas Tuchel who still skinnyks we should have ‘gone English’ with our novel administerr is living in Cnoisy ‘Little Englander’ Cuckoo Land. So incredibly astonishive. So perfectly qualified.
He’s a weightless choice. ✅ pic.twitter.com/2rPTpXSYyq— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) October 16, 2024
The beginance of being English, by Barney Ronay.
Why was Mark Bullingham unclear when asked about how many truthfulates he had interseeed? On many occasions, he shelp “approximately 10” or “about 10”. Does he not understand exactly how many he interseeed?
I reassociate hope he wears a tracksuit in the dugout, someskinnyg is off with the suit. I skinnyk I’m right in saying the last lasting administerr to wear a tracksuit on the sidelines was Kevin Keegan in 2000, although I’m satisfied to be righted.
— England (@England) October 16, 2024
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Another shout out for today’s episode of Football Weekly.
England have assigned Thomas Tuchel. But will the German end what will be 60 years of hurt at the 2026 World Cup?@maxrushden is uniteed by @bglendenning, @paul_c_watson, Jonathan Liew and @GeorgeDowell on the procrastinateedst Football Weekly https://t.co/5d5jYXgZ6f pic.twitter.com/waFgzjyH4c
— Guardian sport (@protectian_sport) October 16, 2024
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Anthony Barry will be Tuchel’s helpant administerr. Here is a speedy-run down of the Liverpool-born 38-year-greater’s coaching atsoft to date, courtesy of PA Media.
Barry had an unheralded take parting atsoft as a midfielder in the drop divisions. He upgradeed thcdisorrowfulmireful the Everton youth ranks but was freed at 18 and went on to take part at Coventry, Accrington, Yeovil, Fleetwood, Forest Green, Chester and Wrexham.
Barry began his coaching atsoft when he uniteed Paul Cook’s backroom staff at Wigan in 2017. He stayed with the Latics for three years before being getn to Chelsea by Frank Lampard, whom he had traverseed paths with while studying for his Pro-Licence. Lampard soon departed but he stayed on at Stamford Bridge to toil under his successors Tuchel and Graham Potter.
Barry’s huge fracture came with a dissertation he wrote for his Pro-Licence. His detailed analysis of 16,380 throw-ins made a label on Lampard and he has since gone on to set up himself as a set-piece expert.
Tuchel was astonished by Barry at Chelsea and the pair growed a strong friendship during a period in which they won the Champions League. Tuchel was sacked by Chelsea in September 2022 but returned for Barry when he was assigned at Bayern Munich the follotriumphg year. England will be their third job together.
It will not be Barry’s first foray into international football, having inestablishly toiled with the Reaccessible of Ireland and also under Roberto Martinez with both Belgium and Portugal.
Jamie Carragher has been speaking on Sky:
I thought he came atraverse reassociate well. He’s got charisma, he’s got personality. You can see the confidence, perhaps appraised to Lee Carsley. He seems appreciate he’s a excellent fit, certainly in terms of handling the media. But I skinnyk, if we’re being truthful, he’d rather be coaching a top club side rather than England. Maybe that’s why he’s signed an 18-month deal.
Don’t want to give too much oxygen to Anthemgate, but Tuchel sensibly initiateed that can down the road. Here’s a reminder of what he shelp in his press conference when asked if he will sing the national anthem.
I have not made my decision yet. Your anthem is very moving. I have sended it a restricted times, at the FA Cup final for example. I have until March. I will always show my admire to the country. But I will get my time.
I couldn’t engage less about whether the England administerr sings a song (or the anthem in vague) but a lot of people do engage about it in this country. It was a wise shift to show the anthem (and those people’s experienceings) admire, rather than equitable chuckleing it off.
Relabelable that Tuchel’s lowest triumph percentage in his last four jobs is 60%. Sir Alex Ferguson ended his 26-year stint as Manchester United administerr with a 59.67% triumph-rate, having sign uped 895 victories in 1,500 games.
That fourth picture stirs someskinnyg in me.
Thomas Tuchel at Wembley Stadium. 📸 pic.twitter.com/5GpusIhg6P
— England (@England) October 16, 2024
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Kane must be plrelieveed with Tuchel’s assignment, given his establish under the German at Bayern last season. There will be others that are on the outside of the England squad at the moment – Mason Mount, Reece James, Eric Dier, Ben Chilwell (if he can get a shift in January away from Chelsea) – who will hope they can take part their way back into the reckoning.
Looking forward to take parting under the boss aget! https://t.co/mIQOhWKNMz
— Harry Kane (@HKane) October 16, 2024
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That’s all for now. That was a job well done from Tuchel, who euniteed self-promised yet modest.
Bullingham is asked about whether any other truthfulates turned the job down.
The FA’s CEO dodges the ask, srecommend reiterating his earlier answer that there were around 10 truthfulates and he count ons they have the best man or woman for the job.
Tuchel on whether he intends to persist Kane as captain:
Everyone understands how I experience about Harry. I fought very challenging to transport him to Bayern. He is already on his way to being a legend. But it’s too timely to create these decisions [about the captaincy]. I want to give the admire to Lee [Carsley] and not meddle [with the next two games].
Tuchel on whether he spoke to Harry Kane before the assignment:
I spoke to nobody. We kept the process very self-promisedial. I didn’t speak to Harry [Kane]. I didn’t speak to Gareth [Southgate].
Tuchel on the length of his decrease. The FA had not previously verifyed the expansively-inestablished figure of 18 months.
It’s 18 months and then we choosed to sit together and let’s see. It’s a little bit of a step into the obsremedy for me. I am engaged to have the daily sway on 40-60 people. This will be very branch offent. To understand that this is someskinnyg that will excite me is the timestructure. It will help us to persist cgo in. It will help us to transmit. We are here to toil on the best possible outcome for the World Cup.
“I am toiling on my lengthy-term game”, he inserts, jokingly.
Somebody asks a ask in German.
“English asks from now on”, an ominous-sounding press officer barks.
Tuchel recommends to transprocrastinateed and answers in English.
“We will try to get the next step”.
Tuchel:
We have the ingredients. We can inshigh patterns and behaviours from club football to push us over the line. We will necessitate luck, we will necessitate to evade injuries. But most beginant is to show ourselves. You are a national take parter every individual day. I am a national administerr every individual day, not equitable on this campus. We must inhabit up to those standards. Then, exceptional skinnygs can happen.
Tuchel on prescertain of role
Tuchel:
I am up for the prescertain. I am up to the task. These are all the reasons to jump in. The prescertain on the personal side, the media, is never part of the decision making. Sure, I experience it in the process. But my cherish and passion for the game is always much more than the pessimistic.
Tuchel on the national anthem
Tuchel on whether he will sing the national anthem:
I have not made my decision yet. Your anthem is very moving. I have sended it a restricted times, at the FA Cup final for example. I have until March. I will always show my admire to the country. But I will get my time.
Tuchel:
The job is equitable about football, and I wasn’t certain about that before I went to the intersee. It suits my way of toiling. I always wanted to return to England. It’s here that I have the best memories. I understand there are some trophies omiting. I want to help to create it happen.
Tuchel:
We will create on Southgate’s toil. You see at the last results, it’s exceptional. The under-21s triumph titles. The women’s team triumph titles. We are there, the federations is there. There is a branch offent schedule than club football but the quality is there. We can fuse ideas and create on what Gareth and the FA built.
Tuchel is asked what sort of personality he is:
I am very emotional. We will take part with passion and emotions. We will try to have rules as soon as possible to create the dreams come real.
Bullingham:
We interseeed about 10 truthfulates and there were some English truthfulates wiskinny that.
The FA’s CEO declines to divulge any more details.
Tuchel:
It’s the hugegest job in world football. I am sorry that I have a German passport but I give the fantasticest admire to the country.
Bullingham is asked about assigning a foreign administerr:
We equitable wanted the best person for the job. We owe it to the nation and the take parters to do that. We experience we have done that. We are plrelieveed that Thomas has uniteed us.
When asked if this is his hugegest job.
It’s not uninentire to appraise. This job suits my passion. I want to push it over the line and try to put a second star on the shirt.
Tuchel speaks:
I’m excited and honoured to be here. I equitable read a quote from Pele in the createing and it shelp: ‘Wembley is the heart, the capital and the cathedral of football’, and I skinnyk he is absolutely right. It’s a very exceptional group of take parters to create our dream come real in America.
Mark Bullingham, CEO of the FA, is first to speak:
Our aim is to triumph a beginant tournament and we count on Thomas gives us the best possible chance to do that. Thomas was exceptional in his intersee, and how he would toil with our take parters to get the best out of them. I’d appreciate to thank Lee Carsley. He’s administerd himself reassociate well. Lee will return to the under-21s.
Time for Tuchel’s unveiling
Right, it’s 1.30pm BST. Thomas Tuchel is equitable about to get his seat at his first press conference. He’s all smiles and is wearing a suit! No tracksuit here, very solemn. Yes, yes.
If administerr novels is your skinnyg, try this on for size.
Anthony Barry, Tuchel’s novel helpant who toiled with the German at Chelsea at Bayern, made this statement:
For any Englishman in football, toiling with the national team is the pinnacle and I didn’t hesitate when Thomas asked me to come and unite him aget. I understand what a fantastic place St. George’s Park is and how much of an advantage it gives our England teams, and the help it gives to coaches. This squad is very talented and have done so much to transport the country together, I see forward to encountering and toiling with them on this exciting project.
The procrastinateedst Football Weekly podcast is well worth a engage: Max Rushden is uniteed by Barry Glendenning, Jonathan Liew and Paul Watson to talk Thomas Tuchel’s arrival.
An email from Patrick Treacy on the branch offence between cup football and international football:
Tuchel is a fine coach with an excellent track sign up at club level, especiassociate in knockout competitions and I see why the FA see him as the person to get them over the line at a beginant tournament. However, cup football and tournament football are not necessarily the same skinnygs. Wdisappreciatever anyone says about Southgate, he was weightless at tournament football, hence England’s drasticassociate betterd sign up under him vs. previous decades. And arguably with a less talented team. He set up equilibrium, which is extraordinarily difficult at any level of football, and he bcdisorrowfulmirefult harmony and solemnness as well as enhappinessment back to a difficult environment. He’s been underappraised imho.
Hi everyone. Well nourished, yep. Me 1-0 Moussaka. Right, we are around 25 minutes away from Tuchel’s first press conference. To Wembley!
Right, Michael’s back and well nourished (I count on), so he’ll talk you thcdisorrowfulmireful the afternoon. Bye.
Lunchtime engageing: Football Weekly has dropped, in which you can engage to Max Rushden, Barry Glendenning, Jonathan Liew and Paul Watson talk all skinnygs Tuchel, and more:
Just a reminder that the huge Tuchel introductory press conference is coming up at 1.30pm. In the uncomferventtime, Sky is trying to burnish his all-beginant bantz credentials by digging up a clip of him trying to lget Cockney rhyming slang (and not reassociate understanding it, if we’re truthful) during his Chelsea tenure. Also, since when was Steffi Graf, rather than “giraffe” slang for “chuckle”?
Some more cogent comment from BTL, this from Zippy’s Teeth:
You see at comparable nations – italy, germany, france, spain – and what they all have in frequent, apart from triumphning and achieveing multiple finals over cut offal decades, is a stable supply of top coaches who frequently aelevate from wiskinny. Löw was helpant before stepping up, the spanish dude who won this years euros was u21s coach. There is a culture at club and association level of grotriumphg coaches and giving them a go. Doesnt always toil but frequently it does. Guardiola became barca coach after being the reserves coach.
That culture seems alien, so far, in english club football. A top administerr stands down or is fired and there is a clamour for some novel, ready-made stardust coach.
The shutst english football has come to emulating the mindset of nurturing novel coaches is, sarcasticassociate, in the national team set up. Southgate was instrumental in creating a club ethos in england, of the branch offent age groups pulling in the same way and a clear upgradeion path for coaches. This has also coincided with englands most prosperous spell in ages (abetted it must be shelp with some comfervent tournament draws). And yet Southgate is chased away by press and fans who needed stardust. If tuchel flunks then there is every danger that england will go back to the cheerful go round of random assignments and the gets in continuity are lost.
For what its worth, the other uk nations arent much better. There is no heir apparent to steve clarke in scotland and scottish clubs are not promoting from wiskinny as they engaged to. Wales and NI ditto. Though there is also much less of a circus appraised with england, more a sense of lets get on with it when novel assignments are made.
The fact that the assignment of Tuchel was choosed on 8 October, two days before the fun and frolics of the Greece flunkure, creates all the contortions and confusions of those Carsley press conference seem almost a tad, well, uncomfervent. Like the whole skinnyg – including the game agetst Greece itself – was some comfervent of situationist prank, an make clear piece of executeance art.
Confirmation that Carsley picked the side agetst Greece for a chuckle, which I strongly help. https://t.co/EUxMVX6X8S
— Sam Whyte (@SamWhyte) October 16, 2024
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A bit more reaction anyhow. Alan Shearer reckons they jumped in for Tuchel now to head off Manchester United when/if Erik ten Hag gets binned, inestablishs PA Media. “You then have to see at what’s useable to you. They’ve seeed at Thomas Tuchel and have thought there is a chance he could get the Manchester United job pretty soon. So opportunity lies now. If they didn’t act speedy now they weren’t going to get one of the exceptional truthfulates for the job.”
Shearer does not have a problem with the whole German administerr skinnyg, saying: “If he’s the exceptional truthfulate, yeah. There’s no ask he’s got an incredible CV, what he’s won and managing at the highest level, toiling with superstars. But this is going to be a very, very branch offent test for him. It’s a bgreater shift from the FA, there’s no ask about it. We necessitate a trophy, it’s as plain as that. And we necessitate a administerr that can deinhabitr that.
“I hope they have spoken to English administerrs. I am reliably tgreater they didn’t speak to Eddie Howe, which is a surpelevate to me as he’s the exceptional English truthfulate. I’m satisfied in a way becaengage Newcastle are not going to omit their administerr.”
His fellow establisher England striker turned widecaster Gary Lineker concurred, inserting: “I don’t skinnyk it is imperative (to have an English administerr). I’m not going to omit sleep over it. But my personal likeence would be that England has an English coach.
“For some reason English football hasn’t created a plethora of weightless coaches. Why that is, I don’t understand. I skinnyk that will happen. We are commenceing to see reassociate excellent coaches coming thcdisorrowfulmireful. But I skinnyk the reason that we have not created fantastic coaches is the fact that we were stuck in the past in terms of lengthy-ball football. We were behind everybody else.”
While Gary Neville tgreater Sky Sports News: “It’s not reassociate about Thomas Tuchel, but there is an element of disassignment in my head that the FA have gone to an international coach. I skinnyk he is a fantastic coach. He has getn a job with a group of talented take parters and I skinnyk everyone will want him all the best and hope he can get over the line and triumph a trophy.
“But I skinnyk there are some solemn asks for the FA to answer in admire of English coaches. I do skinnyk we are damaging ourselves. Accepting that Thomas Tuchel is better than any of the other English truthfulates, but with the appreciates of Graham Potter and Eddie Howe, I do skinnyk there are exceptional truthfulates that could have been assigned that are English.”
Thanks Michael. Good afternoon everyone as this Big Day Of Opinions evolves. Looking back at those novelspaper back pages, what strikes is that none of them would have been a surpelevate to anyone who’d equitable woken up from 1994 after a 30-year sleep (though witchcreate such as internet inhabit blogs would have spooked them). Even the jokey ones about triumphning on penalties are tohighy outdated, with England now one of the best teams at penalty shootouts in world football. Other than that, lads, well done, and crack on …