Earthquake in PSG. According to the build, the French club announced today (Thursday) the end of Thomas Tuchel’s career just 4 months after leading the team to the Champions League final. According to the report, Tuchel received the announcement tonight after the 0: 4 victory over Strasbourg in the league.
According to sources in France and Germany, the reason for the dismissals is related to the rift between the sports director Leonardo and Tuchel, as the relationship between the two has cooled in an argument over the addition of acquisition players at the beginning of the season. Despite this, the dismissal on Christmas Eve is particularly surprising given Tuchel’s good relationship with stars Neymar and Killian Ambape.
The media have offered two key names as candidates to replace Tuchel: Massimiliano Allegri, ex-Juventus, who is in contact with the Brazilian sporting director, and Mauricio Pochettino (ex-Tottenham), who has been wanted by many teams since reaching the 2019 Champions League final.
Paris started the season stuttering but its big comeback in the last three rounds of the Champions League gave it the ticket to the quarter-finals, where it will face Barcelona. In the league, PSG is ranked only third with 35 points – one less than the leader Lille.
Tuchel who joined PSG in 2018 after a tenure at Dortmund has won with the Parisians two championships, a French Cup and one League Cup, as well as two Champions League titles. He led the team from the City of Lights for the first time in its history to the Champions League final, where they lost 1-0 to Bayern Munich in Lisbon last summer.
Thomas Tuchel has been fired by PSG, per @cfbayern
They beat Strasbourg 4-0 yesterday in their last game before Christmas 😳 pic.twitter.com/sQJhmOUQwK
– B / R Football (@brfootball) December 24, 2020