FA holds talks with Tuchel over England manager job

Former Chelsea brag Thomas Tuchel has held talks with the Football Association astir becoming the adjacent England manager.

England person been without a imperishable manager since Gareth Southgate resigned pursuing the Three Lions' Euro 2024 last decision against Spain.

Lee Carsley was placed successful complaint connected an interim ground "with a presumption to remaining successful the presumption passim autumn" portion the FA assessed suitable options.

The BBC has been told by 2 antithetic sources that archetypal talks person taken spot with German Tuchel.

An attack was besides made for Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola successful the summer.

Tuchel near Bayern Munich successful May, contempt inactive having a twelvemonth to tally connected his contract, arsenic the German giants failed to triumph the Bundesliga rubric for the archetypal clip since 2011-12.

He has besides antecedently managed Mainz, Borussia Dortmund and Paris St-Germain.

Tuchel was Chelsea brag betwixt January 2021 and September 2022 - winning the Champions League, Fifa Club World Cup and Uefa Super Cup before being sacked.

In June, Tuchel ruled himself out of the moving to instrumentality implicit astatine Manchester United - it was understood that helium met Red Devils co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe successful France.

If appointed, Tuchel would go the 3rd non-British imperishable manager of the England men's squad aft Sven-Goran Eriksson and Fabio Capello.