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Just four months ago Paris Saint-Germain was in the Champions League final. The team lost to Bayern Munich, but this final was the highlight of the club’s history so far. The reward for a multi-million dollar transfer offense the club has been carrying out since Qatar’s takeover in 2011. This intermediate success was closely related to the name Thomas Tuchel. It was the German coach who found a system in which individual talents like Neymar and Kylian Mbappé could shine without completely neglecting the defense.
So at the end of August, after that close final and with many Bayern Manuel Neuer parades, they could have considered themselves lucky in Paris to have this coach. After all, Tuchel also won two championships and an average of 2.35 points in his 127 competitive games with PSG in two years. But instead of planning for the future and the next attack on the boat, they didn’t want to get seriously involved with the coach. The house they had built in August turned out to be a house of cards.
In the following months they faced two matches whose relationship was already tense before Lisbon: Tuchel and the team on the one hand and the sports director Leonardo and the club on the other. At the end of long fights, Tuchel’s premature separation on Christmas Eve is apparently certain. The end of the contract was set for the summer.
The separation has not yet been officially announced, but according to media close to the club such as “L’Équipe”, the end is certain.
Tuchel and Neymar narrowly miss the queen category victory
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MIGUEL A. LOPES / AFP
Back to the climax of Lisbon: As soon as the tournament ended, new and old problems started again. Numerous players returned from a short vacation with Corona, overuse injuries increased as Ligue 1 started the new season immediately. Sports director Leonardo and Tuchel had a public fight over the transfer policy.
The coach complained that the club had not renewed with captain Thiago Silva, he was unhappy that super talent Tanguy Nianzou was able to move to Bayern Munich on a free transfer, and Edinson Cavani and Thomas Meunier did not find an equivalent replacement. Even Tuchel’s noble prankster and lifelong companion, Eric-Maxim Choupo-Moting, was gone, he also emigrated to Munich.
Translated, Tuchel publicly announced to his superior Leonardo that he had done a bad job.
“If the team stays like this,” Tuchel said during the transfer period, “we can’t talk about the same goals anymore.” And Leonardo, who is highly appreciated by the club bosses, replied: “We didn’t like that. If someone is not happy when they decide to stay, they have to abide by sports policy or internal rules. “
Not even ready for a community of convenience
You will have to search Thomas Tuchel’s life for a long time to find sporting failures. Actually, it does not exist, not at its stations at BVB and in Mainz. And this season, despite all the circumstances, his team is on the right track: third in Ligue 1, one point behind the leader, qualified for the knockout stages of the Champions League.
There have already been games this season that were horrible to watch, the decider at home against RB Leipzig for a place in the round of 16 was one of those. PSG missed numerous players due to injuries and defended all 90 minutes, but Paris won the match. Even when the going got tough, Tuchel used to find solutions.
That is why the separation from him cannot be one that fell for purely sporting reasons. It seems the result of an alienation between coach and club. In the end, they weren’t even ready for a joint venture, because in the summer the Tuchel club could have given up their contract, which ran until the end of June, without any compensation.
But there was also mounting pressure on the French media, which Tuchel celebrated at the beginning of his time for having learned French so quickly: even before the Champions League tournament, Tuchel’s severance pay in the event of an early separation was published in the summer, ten Therefore, he and his technical team should earn millions of euros. Due to the millions lost during the crown pandemic, it was deemed impossible for PSG to be ready to take this step, as long as sporting success is there. He was there.
Watzke on Tuchel: “difficult person”
Another episode followed a few days ago. »We never had the feeling that we had convinced people and that they recognized our work. It also makes you a little sad or angry sometimes, ”Tuchel said on Sport1, defending his team against all criticism. Tuchel is certified as having a good relationship with his team. But that doesn’t seem to apply to the club.
Tuchel won the 2017 cup with BVB
Photo: Bernd Thissen / dpa
Recently, former Tuchel boss Hans-Joachim Watzke of Borussia Dortmund commented on Tuchel’s situation. She said on ARD host Sandra Maischberger’s podcast: “Thomas is a difficult person, now you can see that in Paris. But a fantastic coach. “At the time, they parted ways” because it just didn’t work out. “To this day, Tuchel is the head coach with the best point average at BVB.
According to “L’Équipe”, it is said that Tuchel’s interview on Sport1 was very poorly received by the club. But it shouldn’t have been the deciding factor for the separation. The report says: It was already clear in advance that Tuchel would be released on Christmas Eve. This work was not a gift, but Tuchel also did not emerge as a history loser in Paris. Only in the future will Tuchel have to find a club that can cope with that if he is offended.
With Mauricio Pochettino the next manager is apparently already available, who is currently unemployed, technically outstanding, who is credited with many big European club enthusiasts, it is understandable to hit here fast if you don’t want to stick with Tuchel anyway. Pochettino is also one who already had a contract as an active player at PSG. Perhaps the warmth of the nest is the best prerequisite for an engagement with this club.
