Chelsea

2022 - 9 - 7

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Chelsea sack Thomas Tuchel and target Brighton's Graham Potter (The Guardian)

Chelsea have sacked Thomas Tuchel as manager and are expected to approach Brighton for permission to speak to Graham Potter.

The owners began to see the same complaints from him and the same excuses but no solutions, with Zagreb representing the nadir. “On behalf of everyone at Chelsea FC, the club would like to place on record its gratitude to Thomas and his staff for all their efforts during their time with the club,” a statement said. Tuchel took over from Frank Lampard in January 2021 and won the Champions League four months later. Tuchel came to feel he had too many players to accommodate and not enough he could count on. Boehly’s data analysts had pushed for the Everton midfielder after being impressed by some of his performance metrics. Chelsea have spent a record £266m in one window to bring in Wesley Fofana, Marc Cucurella, Raheem Sterling, Kalidou Koulibaly, Carney Chukwuemeka and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang among others.

Chelsea sack Thomas Tuchel as manager after poor start to season (ESPN Australia)

Thomas Tuchel has been sacked as Chelsea manager following a poor start to the season, the club announced on Wednesday.

Thomas will rightly have a place in Chelsea's history after winning the Champions League, the Super Cup and Club World Cup in his time here. The defeat in Zagreb was their third consecutive away loss, the first time that had happened under Tuchel. At the moment everything is missing." [Fulham](/football/team?id=370), as the search begins for Tuchel's replacement. [A club statement read](https://www.chelseafc.com/en/news/article/chelsea-football-club-part-company-with-thomas-tuchel): "On behalf of everyone at Chelsea FC, the club would like to place on record its gratitude to Thomas and his staff for all their efforts during their time with the club. A consortium led by L.A.

PL bombshell as Chelsea SACK manager after staggering $461m ... (Fox Sports)

Premier League giants Chelsea have made the bombshell decision to sack manager Thomas Tuchel, just days after a record-breaking transfer window came to a ...

Thomas will rightly have a place in Chelsea’s history after winning the Champions League, the Super Cup and Club World Cup in his time here. Tuchel guided the Blues to Champions League glory in his first season, in addition to two other minor trophies, but was axed following a dismal 1-0 defeat in the opening group stage match of this year’s Champions League competition. The Blues sit sixth in the Premier League, having won three games and drawn once from their six outings – but already five points behind early leaders Arsenal. A massive clash with Liverpool follows. It was by far the biggest spend of any club in Europe. A club statement announcing Tuchel’s axing read: “As the new ownership group reaches 100 days since taking over the Club, and as it continues its hard work to take the club forward, the new owners believe it is the right time to make this transition.”

Chelsea sack Thomas Tuchel with Brighton manager Graham Potter ... (CNBC)

Chelsea have sacked head coach Thomas Tuchel six matches into the Premier League season.

Thomas will rightly have a place in Chelsea's history after winning the Champions League, the Super Cup and Club World Cup in his time here. Todd Boehly has axed Tuchel just three months after completing his takeover of the club. Chelsea are expected to approach Brighton later on Wednesday for permission to speak to Graham Potter about their manager vacancy.

Chelsea FC's new US owners sack head coach Thomas Tuchel (Financial Times)

We'll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Chelsea FC PLC news every morning. The new US owners of Chelsea Football Club have sacked head ...

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Pochettino, Potter and the top candidates to replace Tuchel as ... (Goal.com)

Chelsea are on the lookout for a new head coach following Thomas Tuchel's sacking, but who will Todd Boehly pick for his first managerial appointment?

But who should he be looking to recruit? [Thomas Tuchel has been relieved of his duties as Chelsea manager](https://www.goal.com/en/news/chelsea-sack-manager-thomas-tuchel-after-disappointing-start-to-the-season/blt43e0cc8cf0229a48), with the man who delivered the club its second European Cup sacked less than 18 months later. [Defeat to Dinamo Zagreb in their Champions League opener on Tuesday](https://www.goal.com/en/lists/chelsea-winners-losers-and-ratings-as-dinamo-zagreb-shock-wealthy-blues/bltdabd7225426b321d) proved to be the final straw for new Blues owner Boehly, who now has the job of making his first managerial appointment at Stamford Bridge.

Chelsea sack Tuchel after ECL defeat (Blue Mountains Gazette)

Chelsea have sacked manager Thomas Tuchel the day after his team suffered a shock 1-0 defeat away by Dinamo Zagreb in their opening game of the Champions League. The Premier League club confirmed on its website they had parted company with the German ...

"Chelsea's coaching staff will take charge of the team for training and the preparation of our upcoming matches as the Club moves swiftly to appoint a new head coach," the club said. "Thomas will rightly have a place in Chelsea's history after winning the Champions League, the Super Cup and Club World Cup in his time here." "On behalf of everyone at Chelsea FC, the Club would like to place on record its gratitude to Thomas and his staff for all their efforts during their time with the Club," the club said.

Chelsea sack Thomas Tuchel, but will they come to regret it after big ... (ESPN)

Despite what they're saying publicly, Chelsea's decision to fire Thomas Tuchel feels like exactly what they claim it isn't: a rash decision.

And the sort that can come back to haunt you. [Denis Zakaria](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/222628/Denis-Zakaria) and [Carney Chukwuemeka](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/294317/Carney-Chukwuemeka)) haven't played a single minute. So now, Chelsea have to reload on the fly. And because contrary to popular belief, there is no endless supply of cash; whoever comes in will be working with more limited resources than he would have otherwise, which will only make the rebuild trickier. You don't need to be a body language expert to note how his gaunt, praying mantis-like frame looked even more stressed over the past few weeks. They couldn't hang on to Granovskaia, Cech and McLachlan, and they wanted to bring in the right experts to replace them. There's a reason nobody has successfully worked this way since the days of Sir Alex Ferguson: It doesn't work at the highest level. Boehly, who wrestled in college and still has that stocky, amateur grappler look, is no doubt a very bright man and has plenty of experience owning a sports team. He really was the guy flying around Europe, talking to agents and intermediaries and negotiating contracts with input from Tuchel. That is especially the case when you're acquiring players and signing contracts essentially without a front office, since the previous regime of managing director Marina Granovskaia, sporting director Petr Cech and scouting and recruitment guru Scott McLachlan had all either left or were leaving. [Chelsea](/soccer/team?id=363)'s 1-0 defeat in their Champions League opener at [Dinamo Zagreb](/soccer/team?id=597), Thomas Tuchel faced the cameras looking a little bit like Dennis Hopper's character in "True Romance" after he gets the kiss of death from Christopher Walken and takes a drag of his cigarette. It's about reality."

Chelsea sack manager Tuchel after disappointing start to the season (Goal.com)

Chelsea have sacked manager Thomas Tuchel after the team's disappointing start to the season, which continued with a defeat in their European opener.

AND WHAT'S MORE: The Blues have lost to Southampton, Leeds and Zagreb so far this season, as well as being held at home by Tottenham. THE BIGGER PICTURE: Chelsea have picked up just 10 points from six Premier League games so far this season, after spending the most of any English club in the transfer market - £278.4 million ($319.9m/€323m). WHAT NEXT FOR CHELSEA?

Tuchel's strange sacking only makes sense if you are in charge of ... (The Guardian)

Some continuity, finally, at Chelsea Football Club. Sacking your manager seven games into the season, with more than £250m spent on players and a couple of ...

His appointment would be a victory for rewarding talent and earning your step up, just as it is hard to imagine even Brighton’s supporters would begrudge him the chance, if only for the intrigue of watching him adapt and learn. Perhaps Tuchel himself will now be placed in escrow and donated to victims of war around the world. Tuchel was hired by an entirely different group of people, and there have been whispers of tension. In the general silence and confusion it seemed for a while that Tuchel was basically explaining the Ukrainian war to the people of Britain via a series of unforthcoming post-match interviews. Here was a man in a beanie hat and a tracksuit who could at least offer some kind of gravitas and plain speaking, the sense of being good in a crisis, like the neighbour who comes knocking at your door two days into the collapse of all human society wearing a hunting cap and a cagoule and offering to build you a bivouac. And really Tuchel was never going to match that high, always seemed to be running to catch up with himself from that point. The proceeds from the sale of the club are still sitting in the bank account of a man described by the British government as “a pro-Kremlin oligarch”. Little wonder there might be some bumps, a little drop in the levels. He led two different clubs to the final of the Champions League in the past three seasons. Judged by purely sporting standards this is a careless, undeserving, arguably quite flaky move by an owner who has zero inside knowledge of the industry (is this an issue? [Sacking your manager](https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/sep/07/chelsea-sack-thomas-tuchel-as-manager-after-defeat-at-zagreb-champions-league) seven games into the season, with more than £250m spent on players and a couple of whispered wobbles behind the scenes. But it seems Graham Potter just might, if Chelsea really do feel like taking a punt on talent, brains and method over having actually spent a single minute of your professional career at the level the club hope to operate at.

Should Graham Potter wait for a better job than Chelsea? (Off The Ball)

Todd Boehly fired Thomas Tuchel today. The 49-year-old German head coach won the Champions League at Chelsea. But after failing to incorporate Romelu Lukaku ...

He will be able to build a team capable of competing in the Champions League, whereas Brighton would be delighted just to challenge for a Champions League place. Guardiola typically doesn't stay in jobs for a long time, so you can understand Cunningham's perspective. So it's a different level for the English manager. Continuously set the standards that you have at Brighton. The only real problem is upfront where they're relying on Pierre Emerick Aubameyang to score goals. The talent there is largely very impressive.

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