Thomas Tuchel is set to leave Bayern Munich at the end of the 2023/24 season, and he will be the most coveted manager on the open market, with Manchester United reportedly keen on hiring him as a replacement for Erik ten Hag.
The final verdict on ten Hag isn’t yet submitted, but the majority of Man United fans would love to see change in manager at the conclusion of the season, especially if Man United do indeed finish outside of the top seven European places.
Tuchel looks like a slam dunk hire on paper. Unlike his predecessors at Manchester United, Tuchel has success at the elite level of European football to speak of, winning the Champions League in 2020/21 in his first season with Chelsea after taking PSG to their only final in the previous campaign.
However, there’s a chance not everyone at Old Trafford sees Tuchel as a 100 percent slam dunk. Per a report from the Daily Mail’s Chris Wheeler, there are some within Man United who are concerned that Thomas Tuchel is too abrasive as a personality.
Those would be valid concerns. Tuchel rubbed people at Dortmund the wrong way because he wanted to sell beloved players and did not seem to fit the spirit of the club.
At PSG, Tuchel had a falling out, though he was ultimately proven right after the club’s lack of ambition and transfer market fumbling set them further back after the German coach’s departure to Chelsea.
And then at Chelsea, Tuchel was ousted by Todd Boehly under the guise of being too abrasive, yet, in the end, it was Tuchel who had the last laugh.
Finally, Tuchel has been pushed out quietly by Bayern Munich, only to have rumors circulate that the club wants him back due to both his success in the Champions League knockouts and the fact that so many managers, including even Julen Lopetegui, have rejected the club.
Basically, Tuchel may come with baggage, but if executives and owners are held to the same standards, then virtually everyone from Aki Watzke to Todd Boehly at all the other clubs Tuchel has worked with should be criticized heavily for being difficult to work with.
Tuchel gets results. That’s more than anything that can be said of Erik ten Hag, who was abrasive enough to push Jadon Sancho out the door – and now Sancho is, like Tuchel, now a Champions League finalist. When did ten Hag ever accomplish that?
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