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Thomas Tuchel becomes coach at Chelsea FC

Stand: 26.01.2021 | Reading time: 3 minutes

Thomas Tuchel takes over FC Chelsea

The former PSG and BVB coach Thomas Tuchel is taking over FC Chelsea with immediate effect. The 47-year-old will succeed ex-coach Frank Lampard.

Thomas Tuchel is the new coach at Chelsea. The former coach of Borussia Dortmund and Paris Saint-Germain will succeed Frank Lampard. The expectations of the tactical tinkerer from Germany are high.

JNow it’s official: Thomas Tuchel will succeed Frank Lampard at Chelsea. The club from the English Premier League announced on Tuesday evening.

“I can hardly wait to get to know my new team and compete in the most exciting league in football,” Tuchel was quoted on the club’s website. “We all have the greatest respect for Frank Lampard’s work and the legacy he has created at Chelsea,” said the coach, who signed an 18-month contract with an option for an additional year. The first training session was scheduled for Tuesday evening, and Tuchel’s debut is due against Wolverhampton Wanderers on Wednesday.

The 47-year-old comes to London with great praise. The British media have already welcomed the upcoming commitment, calling Tuchel a “visionary” (BBC) and an “excellent talent developer and football scientist” (“The Athletic”). But at Stamford Bridge, only success counts.

There were hardly any recently – despite a € 250 million transfer offensive in the summer. After just one win from the last eight games, the alleged title contender in the Premier League has dropped to ninth place in the table. Tuchel, who had to leave Paris Saint-Germain a few weeks ago, is expected to bring billionaire Roman Abramovich’s club back to the top group in a hurry. More than the qualification for the Champions League is probably no longer possible.

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His predecessor Frank Lampard also failed because he did not succeed in integrating the highly talented newcomers Timo Werner and Kai Havertz into the team. Different systems, changing positions – he tried and tried in vain. Most recently, the German duo was not even regularly in the starting line-up. In Lampard’s last game, the 3-1 cup win over Luton Town, Werner missed a penalty. The scene was symbolic of the current lack of confidence.

In Paris, Tuchel showed that he can form a top team from expensive individualists – including superstars like Neymar and Kylian Mbappé. The British “Guardian” called the native Krumbacher “a kind of anti-lampard”. The “underqualified celebrity” was followed by a “Bavarian over-nerd, tactical modernist and detail-obsessed trainer,” wrote the paper.

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Lampard has been accused of giving too few instructions. No one should complain about this to Tuchel, who leaves nothing to chance. He has already worked successfully with some professionals. With Christian Pulisic, Tuchel won the DFB Cup with Borussia Dortmund in 2017. With Thiago Silva as PSG captain, he won two French championships.

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Antonio Rüdiger, who lost his regular place under Lampard, can certainly hope for more assignments in the future. Tuchel once wanted to guide the German defender to Paris.

In fact, Tuchel was already on the list of those responsible for Chelsea in 2018 – long before Werner and Havertz. Allegedly, people at Stamford Bridge already regret that the former Mainz and Dortmund coach was not signed back then. His demanding attacking football with lightning-fast pressing is exactly to the taste of owner Abramowitsch.

In his last positions, however, Tuchel was no longer in agreement with those responsible for the club: In Dortmund, BVB boss Hans-Joachim Watzke, in his own words, no longer saw any basis for a cooperation based on trust and successful prospects. In Paris there were differences of opinion with PSG sports director Leonardo. In London, he has to get along well with billionaire Abramovich and the powerful sports director Marina Granovskaya. The fact that Lampard had gotten wrong with Granovskaya is said to have been the decisive factor in the change of coach.

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