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Storavisen Bild reports that PSG have fired Thomas Tuchel. Sky Sports and L’Equipe have also mentioned the case.
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PSG have struggled with injuries and illnesses this season, and are only number three in the French league, one point behind Lyon and Lille.
The capital’s team beat Strasbourg 4-0 on Christmas Eve, despite missing several of the stars. Timothee Pembele, Kylian Mbappé, Idrissa Gueye and Moise Kean scored the goals.
However, it is reported from various teams that Tuchel has ended up as PSG coach.
So far nothing has been officially confirmed.
Well-informed journalists Mohamed Bouhafsi and Fabrizio Romano report that former Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino will take over.
– To train PSG one day, that is part of my dreams, Pochettino said in 2016, according to NTB.
He played for the French club from 2001 to 2003, along with, among others, Ronaldinho. The Argentine coached Tottenham from May 2014 to November 2019, when he was fired.
Tuchel was Dortmund’s manager from 2015 to 2017, before Peter Bosz took over. Since then Lucien Favre has been a coach but was fired in early December.
PSG is further away in the Champions League after winning the group ahead of RB Leipzig and Manchester United.
Last season, PSG reached the final of Europe’s most generous club tournament, where Bayern Munich became too strong and won 1-0 after a goal from Kingsley Coman.
After Wednesday’s win against Strasbourg, Thomas Tuchel had to settle for a SPORT1 interview in which he was quoted as saying that “for his first six months he felt more like a politician or sports minister than a coach.”
-I did not say that it was more about politics than sports or that I lost the desire to train. This is not true. They may not have translated it correctly, he tells Canal +.
