Former Chelsea coach Thomas Tuchel has reached an agreement with Football Association to become next England manager after the departure of Gareth Southgate this summer.
The FA are set to hold a news conference at Wembley on Wednesday with Tuchel likely to be confirmed as Gareth Southgate’s successor.
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The FA initially appointed under-21s boss Lee Carsley on an interim basis for England’s autumn UEFA Nations League fixtures as they stepped up their search for possible candidates, who included Tuchel and Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola.
Tuchel has been out of work since leaving Bayern Munich at the end of last season, but he won the Champions League with Chelsea in 2021.
Tuchel will become the third foreign-born manager and first German to take charge of England.
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Is England going for a foreign coach….?? LMAOooo
The craddle of football going for a foreigner to coach its national team….?
What happened to all their ex-internationals with hundreds of caps and a dozen years of trophy laden cub careers?
Is Tuchel even an ex-international of Germany….? Did he even play football at the highest level like English ex-internationals….??
Oh, I forgot… English football is run by thoroughbred professionals who are not guided by sentiments and would not sacrifice merit and competence on the altar of nepotism.
In fact Dr. Drey, I’m soooo disappointed in England. HAHAHAHA!
They have so many qualified English coaches. Not to mention ex-internationals. Why not give the job to ex-internationals who are now qualified coaches like Steven Gerrard, Frank Lampard, Wayne Rooney, etc. They should have “looked inwards”, and given the job to one of their own.
Why o why did the English FA decide to hire a foreigner for the job? And a German to boot? Of all nationalities, a German?
I guess FAILING WITH THEIR OWN is not an option the English are interested in.
In their RELENTLESS PURSUIT of success, the English don’t care where the coach they hire comes from. All they want is the best coach their money can buy. That is how you invest in your future success.
I also want to mention that the English are going for the best even when it comes to player selection. They’ve got several black players in their squad. There is one in particular that caught my attention in their recent game against Finland. The midfielder named ANGEL GOMES. He is the son of GIL GOMES, an Angola born former Portugal player. A black player with a Portuguese last name.
What is my point here? Well, the English selected this young talent ahead of the many white English boys available to play that position. They did not choose to “look inwards”. They cast their net far and wide, looking for the best available player for that midfield position. This is the same thing they did for the entire squad. No home based quota. No white English quota. Just the best of the best.
Moral of the story for Nigeria?
As long as a player has ties to Nigeria and is good enough, that player has to be on the radar of our coaches.
Let’s follow the English example of going for only the best coaches and players for our national team.
It is not only the English that exhibit this behaviour. All the world’s football powerhouses behave the same way.
But what about Gareth Southgate, the former England gaffer? An English ex-international who did really well on the job. Why not follow that template and hire another English ex-international?
Well, Southgate lasted so long on the job because he delivered. If he had failed, he would have been replaced swiftly. His “Englishness” and “ex-international status” are not the factors that kept him on the job. It was his RESULTS that kept him on the job.
So again, Southgate was hired because at that time, the English believed he was the best their money could buy.
Now that Southgate has exited the scene, they put in place an interim manager. But the main manager is once again going to be the best their money can buy. And this time, he just happens to be from Germany.
No sentiments. No nepotism. Just pure merit-driven decision making.
Is this not why I always say If it’s a South African that is the ‘best’ we can get at any point in time, or a Ghanian, or Congolese or even a Japanese, we should get him and eschew nauseating sentiments and nepotism in the hiring of coaches….?
Does the SE job have to be passed from the hands of one jobless ex-international [some who have even failed before] to the next all the time just because somebody had a certain number of caps and played at the world cup decades ago?