Thomas Tuchel | England Manager

born2bblu said:
Not sure why not to have a German, Spanish, Italian, Brazilian, Argentine, etc. to coach England. English coaches are wankers (ok, current English coaches because there were some good ones in the past). Regarding Tuchel, there is no rivalry anymore between Germany and England. It was for a short period in the past, and now doesn’t exist. There is no comparison between what Germany achieved at the international level and what England did. International football is changing, and it won’t be a surprise to see a European in charge of Brazil’s national team because of their extended failures with Brazilian coaches. Not long ago, Brazilians, who are so proud of themselves when it comes to football, were talking to Ancelotti (https://www.football-espana.net/2024/01/02/real-madrid-manager-carlo-ancelotti-confirms-brazil-talks-coaching-the-national-team-is-hugely-exciting#:~:text=He did confirm he had,thank him for his interest). Now, here is a true rivalry between Brazil and Italy, yet the Brazilians talked with Ancelotti. That said, in my opinion, Tuchel is not a good choice, not because he is German but because he is not good PERIOD. But I am still curious to see how he will manage the English team.
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you mean FULL STOP. Are you a yank?
 
Interesting. Tactically a step up, but he also strikes as being a bit weird and abrasive.
 
Depressingly pragmatic football. New manager, same England - keep it tight and hope for an error or a setpiece.

Can't believe how many see this as a great move.

There's no guarantee of trophies. When you end up not winning them, it's good to have enjoyed the journey. But we never do with England and we still won't.

Carsley would have been a novice to some extent, but I was optimistic that he would at least try to make the most of our attacking talent.
 
johnny crossan said:
Some in the City are still waiting for our Teutonic allies to ride over the hill with promised forces to rescue us on Black Wednesday. Alas currency speculators like Joe Lewis made a killing at this county's expense instead - good of him to bankroll spurs after permanently damaging the UK economy I suppose.
""The cavalry were the Bundesbank. We kept on looking over the hill, but there was no dust and there were no hats and no sabres. And then later at the conference call they suddenly didn't speak English, which was extraordinary. So we were kind of stretched on that day," he said. Thirteen years later, Treasury papers would be released showing the cost to be an estimated £3.3bn."

News had filtered through to traders that the head of the German Bundesbank was in favour of Britain devaluing its currency. If this was his view, it explained why he was unwilling to spend money propping up the UK at a higher exchange rate. He obviously believed it was a doomed project and not worth any more German taxpayers' money.
Knowing Britain had a paucity of foreign currency reserves to sell, speculators such as Soros confidently moved in for the kill. The radio news bulletins that afternoon quoted traders using words such as "slaughter" and "disaster" to describe the situation.
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I was in the car a lot that day and I remember the near real time reporting on the radio as the interest rate rose and Lamont tried in vain to prop things up. I think I read a while later that at one point during the day Major had some sort of mini breakdown in the loo or something. Not quite pencils up the nose and wibble, but people were worried for him.
 
mattcity5 said:
Depressingly pragmatic football. New manager, same England - keep it tight and hope for an error or a setpiece.

Can't believe how many see this as a great move.

There's no guarantee of trophies. When you end up not winning them, it's good to have enjoyed the journey. But we never do with England and we still won't.

Carsley would have been a novice to some extent, but I was optimistic that he would at least try to make the most of our attacking talent.
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I like him because he's erratic and unsafe, after 18 years of dour underwhelming managers I want to see one kick off and give a Seagull speech or physically attack a microphone.
 
mattcity5 said:
Depressingly pragmatic football. New manager, same England - keep it tight and hope for an error or a setpiece.

Can't believe how many see this as a great move.

There's no guarantee of trophies. When you end up not winning them, it's good to have enjoyed the journey. But we never do with England and we still won't.

Carsley would have been a novice to some extent, but I was optimistic that he would at least try to make the most of our attacking talent.
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Having had this moan, I will counter myself slightly by saying this.

Pep is the best, but his concepts take too long to imbed for those not used to them. Having only 2 weeks together with the players every so often would limit how well he could get players, used to a different style, to adapt to his concepts.

Tuchel's ideas are more straightforward and may be more suitable for the squad that we have.

I'm still 95% sure it'll be dull as fuck and we still won't win anything though...
 
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