Why the short contract? How will he play? Tuchel's England move explained

Thomas Tuchel's astonishment assignment arsenic England brag was confirmed connected Wednesday, conscionable hours aft the communicative broke.

The 51-year-old German volition regenerate Lee Carsley, who volition spell backmost to the England Under-21 role, connected 1 January for the 2026 World Cup qualifiers.

With the determination happening truthful rapidly there's not been overmuch clip to digest the quality - and England fans are understandably asking tons of questions.

BBC Sport has a spell astatine answering immoderate of them.

Unlike galore different managers, determination is nary 1 enactment you tin accidental Tuchel prefers and volition play.

At Chelsea Tuchel usually utilised a backmost 3 with wing-backs - Reece James and Ben Chilwell erstwhile acceptable - with Kai Havertz often playing successful a mendacious 9 role.

He played a three-man defence sometimes astatine Borussia Dortmund excessively - but usually they played a backmost four, which is the strategy helium chiefly utilised astatine Mainz, Paris St-Germain and Bayern Munich.

As PSG brag helium was utilized to trying to acceptable respective attacking stars into 1 squad - with Neymar, Kylian Mbappe, Angel di Maria, Edinson Cavani and Mauro Icardi successful his squad.

Last play with Bayern helium played a 4-2-3-1 with 3 players down England skipper Harry Kane.

"3-2-4-1 would suit England due to the fact that you get 4 originative attack-minded players with a striker successful front," said erstwhile Scotland winger Pat Nevin connected BBC Radio 5 Live's Football Daily.

"He hasn't got a circumstantial accepted mode of play. When you person an open-minded manager similar that you person a existent chance."

Speaking astir interim brag Carsley's attempts astatine playing attacking midfielders Jude Bellingham, Cole Palmer and Phil Foden successful the 2-1 decision by Greece, Nevin said: "It didn't rather enactment but it's lone 1 mentation of it.

"You tin effort different versions too. I person a existent suspicion 1 of the astir open-minded managers astatine the apical level volition effort that. I fishy they'll beryllium beauteous breathtaking nether Thomas."

Harry Kane is England's all-time starring goalscorer with 68 goals successful 101 games. There have, however, been calls by immoderate fans for the 31-year-old to beryllium dropped, with idiosyncratic other fixed a go.

But that is improbable to beryllium connected the docket for Tuchel - with the brace having paired up to specified spectacular effect astatine Bayern past season.

Tuchel signed Kane from Tottenham successful August 2023 - and the England striker deed 44 goals successful 45 games nether him.

In the Bundesliga helium scored 36 goals successful 32 games, a extremity each 79 minutes, the champion play of Kane's career.

Among players to play astatine slightest 2,000 minutes for a manager successful Bundesliga history, lone Robert Lewandowski nether Hansi Flick has a amended minutes-per-goal ratio.

"You cognize however highly I deliberation of Harry and however hard I fought to bring him to Bayern Munich. He is already connected his mode to being a fable successful English football," said Tuchel - who said helium did not talk to Kane - oregon anyone - astir taking this job.

However, Bayer Leverkusen bushed Bayern to past season's rubric contempt each those goals - and Tuchel was replaced by Vincent Kompany.

"You person to physique a squad astir Kane to marque it work," said erstwhile England defender Stephen Warnock.

"Tuchel cognize however to get the champion retired of Kane. It's astir getting the jigsaw pieces astir Harry and marque definite helium gets the pieces close to get the champion retired of him. He'll beryllium delighted with the appointment."

Other players blessed to spot Tuchel successful the occupation could beryllium Chelsea full-backs James and Chilwell, and Manchester United midfielder Mason Mount - nary of whom person been England regulars for years.

Mount scored 15 goals and assisted different 12 successful 56 games nether Tuchel astatine Chelsea.

Tuchel volition person to triumph a large tourney for his clip arsenic England brag to beryllium considered a success.

The mixed absorption to Gareth Southgate reaching 2 European Championship finals - but losing some narrowly - shows that.

And they are the lone 2 finals England person ever reached successful men's shot extracurricular the 1966 World Cup which they won.

Tuchel said helium volition "try to get a 2nd prima connected our shirt" successful a video connected societal media.

"If helium gets implicit the enactment it's the close decision," said Warnock.

"That volition beryllium the be-all and end-all. He'll beryllium judged connected winning tournaments. If helium doesn't he'll beryllium deemed a failure. That's conscionable the tallness of anticipation of being an England manager."

Former England striker Alan Shearer, connected The Rest is Football podcast, said: "We request a trophy. We request a manager who tin present that.

"You person to triumph the tournament, that's what he's been hired for."

Football Association main enforcement Mark Bullingham said: "Our purpose is ever to triumph a large tournament. We judge Thomas gives america the champion imaginable accidental to bash that astatine the adjacent men's World Cup."

Tuchel has won a bully magnitude of silverware successful his nine vocation - with the 2020-21 Champions League with Chelsea the pinnacle.

He besides won the 2022-23 Bundesliga with Bayern. The nexus with some of those is that helium took implicit during the season.

Tuchel besides won 2 French titles, including a home treble, with Paris St-Germain - and mislaid a Champions League last to Bayern.

He is the archetypal England brag to person won a large trophy successful 1 of Europe's apical leagues, oregon a European trophy, since their past overseas manager - Fabio Capello, who was appointed 17 years ago.

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"England person arguably 1 of the top squads they ever had and the large momentum of 2 Euros finals," said European shot writer Julien Laurens.

"What England needed present to bring that momentum done is having a victor connected the bench."

Tuchel starts his occupation connected 1 January 2025, meaning Carsley volition instrumentality complaint of the remaining 2 Nations League radical games adjacent month.

The German's archetypal crippled successful complaint volition beryllium successful March, but it is not yet known what contention it volition beryllium in.

If England decorativeness 2nd successful their Nations League group, which is their presumption with 2 games to go, they volition look a promotion-relegation play-off successful March against a third-placed squad successful League A.

But if England triumph their group, past March's games would either beryllium World Cup qualifiers oregon friendlies.

That volition beryllium connected whether they are drawn successful a 4 oregon five-team qualifying group.

There is simply a accidental Tuchel's archetypal competitory crippled would not travel until September if they are drawn successful the smaller group, and person won their Nations League group.

The lone confirmed subordinate of his backroom unit to day is Anthony Barry arsenic adjunct boss.

The 38-year-old was Tuchel's adjunct astatine Chelsea and Bayern - and has had the aforesaid relation with the Republic of Ireland, Belgium and Portugal.

He is simply a set-piece specializer and wrote a dissertation connected throw-ins - looking astatine 17,000 throw-ins successful a Premier League play - arsenic portion of his Uefa Pro Licence course.

The FA said they volition name "a tiny backroom team" with updates successful the "near future".

Most of Tuchel's fallings-out astatine clubs, sometimes starring to his departure, person travel with the radical supra him - often dealing specifically with transfers and budgets.

But those volition not beryllium issues with the England job.

However helium has besides had disputes with players and squads before.

"Tuchel tin beryllium incredibly charming and diplomatic, and tin beryllium entertaining and humorous," German shot writer Raphael Honigstein told BBC 5 Live. "At the aforesaid time, helium tin beryllium a small spot harsh astir his players and that doesn't ever spell down well."

Last period Bayern fable Lothar Matthaus told Bild:, external "The players consciousness harmless present and would spell done occurrence for the manager [Kompany]. The players did not consciousness escaped nether Thomas Tuchel.

"It didn't enactment retired with Bayern Munich. We knew that beforehand. It's not arsenic if Bayern didn't spot what problems helium had successful Dortmund, successful Paris, and what problems helium had successful Chelsea, contempt winning the Champions League."

Warnock added: "He's got a consciousness of 'I don't privation to transverse him'. You person to person a fearfulness origin erstwhile you play for a manager truthful you don't measurement retired of line."

French writer Laurens said: "His antheral absorption is getting better. With Paris and each the superstars and egos, helium had to alteration a spot alternatively than being this alpha antheral helium was successful Germany."

The main disapproval of Southgate's eight-year reign, isolated from his nonaccomplishment to triumph a trophy, was what was perceived arsenic antagonistic tactics.

But past does not bespeak that it is going to beryllium a free-scoring goalfest nether Tuchel.

In the 578 games helium has managed astatine nine level his teams person scored 1147 goals and conceded 619 - an mean of astir 2-1 per game.

Honigstein said: "He has a endowment for uncovering solutions. He's go somewhat much blimpish successful caller years."

His benignant of play was besides criticised astatine Bayern.

One happening England should beryllium capable to bash is support the ball.

In the past 20 years Manchester City's Pep Guardiola is the lone manager to person a higher mean possession, oregon much palmy passes, for 1 Premier League squad than Tuchel's 62% astatine Chelsea.

It is antithetic for an England manager to lone beryllium handed an 18-month deal.

The information it runs from the commencement of 2026 World Cup qualifying done to the extremity of the tourney indicates his remit is to triumph the trophy.

"It's 18 months and past we agreed to beryllium unneurotic and we'll see," said Tuchel.

"It's a bully timeframe due to the fact that it volition assistance america focus. It is precise streamlined."

BBC Sport shot quality study Alex Howell said: "The 18 months that Tuchel has signed is understood to beryllium an thought of the manager himself arsenic it gives him the cleanable clip framework to absorption on, lone person World Cup qualification to interest astir and person the inducement of the World Cup astatine the end.

"Sources told the BBC that the German has a circumstantial thought of however helium wants to physique the 18 months starring into the World Cup.

Tuchel said helium signed the 18-month declaration “not to suffer focus” and joked that immoderate of his champion enactment has travel successful that clip framework earlier being sacked oregon leaving.

Sam Allardyce signed a two-year declaration successful 2016, though his reign lone lasted 1 game, but each their different managers successful the 21st period person been fixed deals of betwixt 3 and 5 years.

The FA said the determination to name Tuchel and Barry was approved by their committee aboriginal past week, connected 8 October.

In fact, 2 days earlier Carsley's experimental no-striker squad mislaid astatine location to Greece.

However the FA kept that apical concealed - saying it was to "minimise distraction" astir the squad and Nations League games.

That Greece decision was felt, successful galore camps, to person perchance outgo Carsley the England occupation - with cipher extracurricular knowing that it was already decided helium would not go the imperishable manager.

It besides explains the contradictory quotes that Carsley was criticised for, wherever helium would look to regularisation himself successful and retired of contention successful speedy succession - and accidental "hopefully" helium would spell backmost to his England Under-21 role.