Chelsea Fire Thomas Tuchel: Who Will Lead The Team Now?

Thomas Tuchel was let go from his position as head coach at Chelsea on Wednesday, and Brighton granted the Blues permission to speak with Graham Potter about the vacant position. Chelsea is looking to quickly secure a new head coach who can lead them out of their early season rut and into better success.

 

The most noteworthy development concerning the organization will take place in 2022. Although there are certain mitigating circumstances, the performance in the league has been subpar since January. The fact that Chelsea has maintained the fundamental statistics of a mid-table team for nine consecutive months despite the transfer ban, injuries, and everything else happening around the club is inexplicable. They should have performed better. Despite this, the most significant factor in Tuchel’s fall from grace was not any of these.

 

Tuchel, who won the Champions League in 2021 with the Blues, will leave Stamford Bridge after having only played seven games this season. Following the most recent loss, which was a 1-0 setback on the road against Dinamo Zagreb on Tuesday night, Tuchel confessed that he was at a loss to comprehend his team’s recent troubles and that it was his third consecutive loss.

 

A season ago, Chelsea were the reigning European champs and had gotten off to a roaring start to the new season. Now, things are looking quite different for the club. The upheaval that followed the club’s takeover earlier this year only enhanced supporters’ admiration for Tuchel, the most popular manager Stamford Bridge has seen in a long time.

 

Todd Boehly, who took over as owner of the Chelsea Football Team in May after Roman Abramovich stepped down, supported his head coach by going on the most extensive buying binge any Premier League club has ever done in a single transfer window.

 

A significant number of those players, like Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Raheem Sterling, were players that Tuchel himself had been instrumental in signing. Instead, a new head coach will be in charge of this team when it finally competes.

 

In a statement, the club thanked Thomas and his employees for their efforts throughout their time at Chelsea FC. Thomas will have earned the right to have a part in the club’s history after winning the Champions League, the Super Cup, and the Club World Cup during his time at Chelsea.

 

The new ownership group has now had control of the club for one hundred days, and it has been putting in a lot of effort to move the club forward. As a result, the new owners think now is the appropriate moment to make this transfer. The Chelsea coaching staff will run practices and prepare the squad for forthcoming matches as the club works quickly to choose a new head coach. During this time, the team will continue to be coached by the Chelsea coaching staff.

 

Potter is among the most promising prospects for succeeding Tuchel. Chelsea wasted no time in making their move to talk to the 47-year-old manager on Wednesday morning after Brighton agreed to their desire. It is also believed that Mauricio Pochettino is a part of the Blues’ deliberations at this time.

 

Chelsea hasn’t yet disclosed their coaching staff’s personnel composition for Saturday’s Fulham trip. Club sources told CBS Sports that they anticipate Zsolt Low, Arno Michels, and Benjamin Weber, who all joined the team with Tuchel, will leave with the exiting head coach. If a replacement is not chosen, assistant coach Anthony Barry might be crucial in helping the Blues get ready for a challenging London derby against a hot opponent.

 

Even by the standards of Chelsea, where managers are frequently inclined to be seen as among the most disposable personnel by former owner Roman Abramovich, Tuchel’s dismissal indicates a startling decline in favor of Tuchel. Early moves by Boehly showed a change. Experienced players like Petr Cech and Marina Granovskaia left without replacements, strengthening the head coach’s position.

 

That was made crystal clear in the decision to recruit Aubameyang, 33, on transfer deadline day in a €12 million deal. Boehly had already sanctioned the loan departure of Romelu Lukaku to Inter Milan at a sizable loss, less than 12 months after the previous regime had signed him for a club record €115 million.

 

Meanwhile, on Aug. 20, Tuchel revealed that his representatives had talked with the club hierarchy about extending his contract. Since then, Chelsea lost to Leeds United, Southampton, and Dinamo, the latter defeat meaning that Tuchel departed the club after precisely 100 games. Since the beginning of the Abramovich era, only four permanent managers have been able to outperform his average of 2.04 points per game. Those four managers are Jose Mourinho in his first stint as manager of Chelsea, Avram Grant, Antonio Conte, and Maurizio Sarri. However, unlike those four, he also brought Champions League glory to west London.

 

Another goal shared by the supporters and the club ought to be to steer clear of the pursuit of immediate results. It is always harmful, and it invariably leads to undesirable outcomes. Tuchel was ultimately responsible for his dismissal because he prioritized short-term success over the team’s growth. On the other hand, such choices ought to be permitted moving forward. We can no longer operate with the mindset of “win now, worry tomorrow.” Today is the day to begin laying the framework to secure our success tomorrow and beyond. If we put our current efforts into the growth of our players, we will undoubtedly have a far more talented roster in the years to come.