No thank you. He’s obviously better than Ole due to how fit he makes his teams and the way they press with coordination, but if Ole can’t win trophies, then this guy is allergic to them. Forget not winning anything with Spurs’ best team since the 1961 double winning team, he somehow failed to win Ligue 1 last season despite having half a season to do so with a more valuable squad than everyone else combined. For me, Ole’s time here has been a general failure as no United manager should fail to win anything in 3 years, but what Poch did last season is the mother of all footballing embarrassments.
He’s also having as much trouble dealing with the big egos as Ole. Messi had a go at him simply for being substituted even though he was injured, Neymar and Mbappe have fallen out with each other despite being best friends during Tuchel’s entire tenure and he just cannot drop Di Maria for any prolonged period even though they look far better and more balanced without him. The reports of the manager failing to give fringe players a chance would resurface all over again. Guys like Pogba and Ronaldo will walk all over him like they’re doing to Ole, and I can already see the dressing room leaks about training being too hard once he makes them run 10km per day without a trophy to show for it at the end of the season. Conte has a much stronger personality than him.
This guy is also a whole new level of stubborn. It’s not just making his team far too lopsided to fit Di Maria in, it’s also not changing tack when his Spurs team didn’t win away domestically in his last 8 months in charge and sticking with that front 4 even though the defence was being torn apart. It’s also a myth that his style of play is total football. He presses high, yes, and his teams definitely do it better than Ole’s. However, this PSG side rely on the individual brilliance of their front 3 as much as us, and his Spurs team arguably did not play good football in his last 18 months there. Granted, it did work, but they counter attacked their way to the CL final. His teams have been tumescent for the last 2 years.
In a nutshell, I wouldn’t take him. It’d be like replacing Ole with a rich man’s Ole. Conte or Zidane would be far better options.