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Thomas Tuchel has reaffirmed his dedication to Bayern Munich for the rest of the season amid stories linking the German with managerial roles at Barcelona and Manchester United.
Earlier this week, the Bundesliga champions introduced that Tuchel can be leaving the Allianz Enviornment in the summertime, with Bayern having sustained three essential losses in a row in latest weeks.
The membership are second within the desk, eleven factors behind leaders Bayer Leverkusen, who dispatched Bayern with ease two weekends in the past in a dominant 3-0 win.
They then misplaced 1-0 to Lazio within the first leg of their Champions League final sixteen tie, having already departed the DFB-Pokal (German cup) earlier within the season, by the hands of a Saarbrücken – a third-division facet. Bayern additionally misplaced the DFL Supercup firstly of the 12 months, falling to a 3-0 defeat to RB Leipzig.
In brief, it’s been an unusually dangerous season for a membership accustomed to dominating on the home and continental ranges.
In response, Bayern are implementing a “sporting realignment” all through the membership, with plenty of adjustments occurring on the government degree and an overhaul of the squad deliberate for the summer season. As a part of this course of, the supervisor may even change.
Talking in a press convention on Friday, Tuchel was requested about his future following the announcement.
The coach has been linked with the managerial position at Outdated Trafford, with stories from Germany indicating he has at all times dreamed of teaching United, and can be open to a return to England.
Tuchel was beforehand the supervisor at Chelsea, serving to the London membership to an unlikely Champions League triumph in 2021. He departed Stamford Bridge in September 2022, following a conflict with Todd Boehly – the membership’s American proprietor.
The state of Chelsea as a crew since this level has largely vindicated Tuchel’s choice, with swathes of Chelsea followers contemplating his dismissal to be a grave mistake, given the standard of his subsequent successors.
Erik ten Hag has confronted his personal struggles this season on the helm at Outdated Trafford. An unprecedented harm disaster has plagued his squad, whereas an try to instil a brand new type of play, predicated upon dominating transitions, has confronted teething points, to place it mildly.
The end result?
United crashed out of the Champions League and Carabao Cup in spectacularly dismal vogue earlier within the 12 months, whereas the membership are sixth within the Premier League desk, with a purpose distinction of simply 1. The FA Cup gives the final likelihood of success this 12 months.
It has left Ten Hag’s future precarious forward of a serious summer season of change at Outdated Trafford.
On the query of his personal future, Tuchel replied: “Nothing’s going to occur with me earlier than the tip of the season. I’ve a really excessive skilled expectation of myself and that’s fully devoted to Bayern Munich till the tip of the season.”
Whereas Tuchel’s phrases don’t reveal his intentions come the summer season, the very fact he additionally refused to rule something out will do little to quell the hearsay mill linking him to Ten Hag’s position.
Champions League race within the Premier League may determine if there’s even a job available in the summertime. Ball’s in Ten Hag’s court docket now.
