Tuchel Chelsea sacking proves modern football has gone mad
Stuart Telford
- 14 Sept 2022 10:55 BST
- 3 min read
Thomas Tuchel was sacked by Chelsea having been crowned a European and world champion in his short time at the club. He should have a statue outside Stamford Bridge.
It is not the first time Tuchel has been gratuitously sacked, however. The German became available to Chelsea in January 2021 after he had been unceremoniously dumped by PSG that winter.
Tuchel won six major honours in his two-and-a-half years in Paris, steering them to the Champions League final in 2020, but he fell out with sporting director Leonardo over the signing of Danilo Pereira and was released on 24 December. Merry Christmas indeed.
Enough is enough ... it's time for Juventus to SACK Max Allegri and hire Thomas Tuchel 👀
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His 75.6 per cent win ratio remains the highest in Ligue 1 history.
Tuchel had been a top manager with Borussia Dortmund prior to that, steering them to the DFB Cup in 2017 and achieving a points tally of 78 that would have secured them the Bundesliga title in all but three of the previous 52 seasons.
But run-ins with their sporting director Sven Mislintat - later of Arsenal - made friction at the Signal Iduna Park untenable, and he was relieved of his duties three days after that Cup win.
Boehly breakdown
New Chelsea owner Todd Boehly explained why he released Tuchel this time.
"There are a lot of walls to break down at Chelsea," he told the SALT Conference in New York. "Before, the first team and academy didn't really share data, didn't share information about where the top players were coming from.
"Our goal is to bring a team together; all of that needs to be a well-oiled machine."
But the compartmentalisation of roles in football management isn't Tuchel's fault, and he has been a victim of it more than most.
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There was a time when football managers were in charge of the overarching organisation of the club, without sporting directors there to undermine them.
Imagine somebody telling Sir Alex Ferguson who to sign during his 26-year rein in charge of Manchester United? And he does have a statue of himself outside Old Trafford.
Tuchel is one of the best managers in the game and he is out of work. Again. Modern football has gone mad.
