England need manager who can deliver trophy - Shearer

Former England skipper Alan Shearer says the Three Lions "need a manager who tin present a trophy" aft German Thomas Tuchel agreed to go the adjacent boss.

Tuchel, 51, is acceptable to go the 3rd non-British imperishable manager of the England men's team, with a media league expected connected Wednesday astatine Wembley.

Tuchel, who won the Champions League with Chelsea successful 2021, volition beryllium tasked with starring England to the 2026 World Cup, wherever they volition anticipation to extremity a 60-year hold for a large trophy.

"We request a trophy - it's arsenic elemental arsenic that. We request a manager who tin present that," Shearer said connected The Rest Is Football, external podcast.

"There's nary uncertainty [Tuchel] has an unthinkable CV, but this is going to beryllium a precise antithetic trial for him. It's a bold determination from the FA, there's nary uncertainty astir it.

"You person to triumph the tournament, that's what he's been hired for. They [the FA] person seen the clump of players are the champion England person had for a long, agelong time."

England person been without a imperishable manager since Gareth Southgate resigned aft 8 years successful complaint pursuing the Euro 2024 last decision by Spain, with Lee Carsley appointed connected an interim basis.

Sven-Goran Eriksson and Fabio Capello are the lone erstwhile non-British imperishable England men's managers, but dissimilar his predecessors Tuchel is acquainted with English shot - having managed Chelsea betwixt January 2021 and September 2022.

"Tuchel volition person looked astatine this squad and thought determination is truthful overmuch endowment successful there, this is an unbelievable accidental of winning the top trophy of all," erstwhile England striker Gary Lineker said.

"I would person fixed the occupation to Carsley. I person seen capable to suggest the players truly spot him, that he's imaginative capable to nutrient thing that is simply a joyousness to ticker - entertaining front-footed football."

Former England defender Micah Richards said: "The constituent is we don't person an English campaigner beardown capable to instrumentality that job, that's 1 of the astir absorbing things.

"I was of the sentiment that we don't request an English manager, conscionable spell retired and get the champion idiosyncratic for the job. I deliberation Tuchel is an outstanding manager, a proven winner."