What, exactly, do people see Tuchels level as being? With the exception of Mainz he hasn’t lasted longer than two years at any of his jobs. A ton of Oppo’s on here acting like we kicked Pep to the curb after he offered to build us an empire.
Tuchel is an excellent tournament coach. But many of the qualities that make him excellent in that situation make him almost putrid in others. Do people not remember the articles basically saying he was actively trying to take a torch to the Dortmund and PSG locker rooms and front offices? Is it just conveniently forgotten that the word most often used to describe him was “Difficult”?
He got us a Champions league. We absolutely should be grateful. But the idea that anyone would choose Thomas Tuchel to lead the building of a large, collaborative sporting empire is ridiculous. It’s the complete opposite of his skillset, and even he apparently realized that about halfway through the Summer.
My only beef was Clearlake getting sentimental at all, and trying to shoehorn him into the gig to begin with. Tuchel is the kind of guy who probably LOVED the whole locked-in-a-bunker, I’ll drive the team bus, sanction period. But they talked to enough people to have an idea of how badly he would handle what they wanted from him in his “expanded role”. TUCHEL himself told people, including those with access to frontline Chelsea reporters, that it was a disaster.
Is Tuchel greater than Potter tactically? Maybe. Tuchel tactically took apart Pep when it mattered. He does that ONE thing very well. Would you choose him over Pep to build your program to the top echelon level? No, because most of you aren’t stupid.
Potter is 4000 times better than Tuchel at handling locker rooms. He has never had the team Tuchel had to work with for that CL. And since the keystone of that team even bring able to operate was Kante, I would argue he’s never had close.
Potter is better at building relationships with front office staff and coordinating what he does to an overall plan.
Tuchel should coach a national team. It is tailor made to his skill set and would cement his legacy.
But Chelsea absolutely made the right decision, albeit late, the project they want. And for those that think the “TOP technical mind” is “more important than anything” in building something …. You don’t get how football at the top level works now, because that is not true. A lot of oeoe felt we never recovered structurally from Emenalo leaving. Edu plays AT LEAST as much s role in Arsenals rise as Arteta. Txiki, among others, could be argued at least as important as Pep in the rise of City. In fact, City had already attained many of the same heights they have to date before Pep.
It is the larger structure of the club itself that is the real decider now. And that is precisely the thing Tuchel is functionally not equipped for.