Tuchel’s tactics at Dortmund and PSG and what to expect at Chelsea – the Athletic

For a manager who has already coached two modern European giants at Borussia Dortmund and Paris Saint-Germain, it’s still a bit difficult to judge Thomas Tuchel, in terms of style and success.

This latter debate is the most obvious demonstration of the problem with football’s predictable and almost broken national championship system. Tuchel’s performance in Dortmund is sometimes criticized for not winning the league title; his performance at PSG is sometimes criticized because winning the league title was inevitable. Evaluating a manager solely through league titles has become almost futile.

Stylistically, meanwhile, Tuchel feels like the quintessential modern trainer. Cast as an obsessive technocrat who takes inspiration from outdoor football and designs complex training drills to overload his players psychologically and sometimes physically, there is no easy categorization for Tuchel. The philosophy of the new Chelsea manager is …