Thomas Tuchel | England Manager

[threespires]

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.

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.

 

[mexico1970]

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.

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.

 

[TinFoilHat]

When does Stefan Ortega become eligible to play for England?

Today methinks.

:)

 

[SkyBlueFlux]

Well on the bright side, at least the Royal Family can now fully get behind their home nation.

 

[dublinblue12]

The sound of rag hearts breaking because of this news is beautiful, running out of candidates, and on top of that a few were also convinced Pep was leaving us to take the job

 

[mexico1970]

Well on the bright side, at least the Royal Family can now fully get behind their home nation.

Us Anglo Saxons finally have a figurehead who doesn't do football via spreadsheets and cliches :)

 

[itsnevereasy]

Arry Bentwatt going full GB News on Sky.

These foreign owners come in and put in foreign managers… no ‘arry it is because English managers are pretty much not up to Elite level. However Newcastle kinda screw his theory

 

[cityontheup]

He…………understands………..that……..Pep………..would……….be………very interested………..in managing……..England

Haha that sums him up perfectly

 

[simmo]

18 months contract so he will be judged on the World Cup.

 

[mattcity5]

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.

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...