Chelsea announced this morning the sacking of Thomas Tuchel as manager of the team. The surprising defeat of the blue team against Dinamo Zagreb (1-0) in the debut of the Champions League led to the sudden dismissal of the German coach, undoubtedly one of the most unexpected news in the international football scene at the beginning of the season.
Despite the fact that only a few hours have passed since the announcement, the first names of the candidates for the Chelsea bench did not take long to appear, some as common as Mauricio Pochettino or Zinedine Zidane, and others less profile, as before. the case with Graham Potter or Roger Schmidt.
Who will be the next local bank tenant at Stamford Bridge?
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Mauricio POCHETTINO
no team
The Argentine coach, without a team since PSG terminated his services at the end of last season (despite achieving the Ligue1 and Cup ‘double’), is a regular on candidate lists when an ‘interesting’ bench is remains free. Also linked to Sevilla a few days ago as a possible replacement for Lopetegui if he leaves Sánchez Pizjuán, Pochettino’s main guarantee is his good seasons in the Premier, especially at Tottenham, where he finished second in 2016- 17, in addition to having Spurs in the finals of the Champions League in 2019. In addition, there is the strange circumstance that Pochettino has already replaced Tuchel at PSG at the end of 2020.
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Graham Potter
Brighton & Hove Albion FC
The current Brighton manager is, according to the English press, the strong favorite to replace Tuchel on the Chelsea bench. Potter began his coaching career with Swedish side Östersunds (2011-18); from there he moved to the Welsh Swansea (2018-19) and, since 2019, he has managed Brighton, one of the great revelations of the current season in the Premier League: in 4th position in the table, with 12 points. .. 2 more than Chelsea themselves (6th, with 10).
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Roger Schmidt
SL Benfica
A compatriot of Tuchel, the German coach is also on the list of candidates for the Chelsea bench, although his main handicap is that he has only been at Benfica for a few months: he arrived this summer (it was announced in May) and, so far, he has succeeded in his five league games with the ‘eagles’. His merits to land at Stamford Bridge: he won the Austrian league with Red Bull Salzburg in 2014; He finished 3rd in the German Bundesliga with Bayer Leverkusen in 2016 and in two seasons on the PSV Eindhoven bench, he signed two runner-up finishes.
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Zinedine Zidane
no team
The Frenchman is a case very similar to that of Pochettino: since he left the Real Madrid bench at the end of the 2020-21 season, ‘Zizou’ has been associated with teams like PSG or even with the French team, which, Said them, this is the dream of the French coach. Despite having no experience in the Premier League, neither as a player nor as a coach, his excellent track record with the Madrid team (3 Champions League and 2 League) makes him a very attractive manager at Stamford Bridge .
Source: La Verdad
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