Chelsea recently sacked Frank Lampard and brought in Thomas Tuchel as their new boss. But many experts have doubts over this appointment since Tuchel could do very little with a star-studded PSG side in the past two and a half years.
Thomas Tuchel failed to win the Champions League with players like Neymar and Mbappe in his side which is why helping Chelsea win the Premier League is going to be an uphill battle.
But according to former youth academy teammate and ex-Leverkusen coach Tayfun Korkut, the 47-year-old will finally be able to play his brand of football at Stamford Bridge.
He told Sky Sports: “I know him very well because we were in the academy together. He was one year older than me. He has always done things his own way. He was always well prepared.
“He was the starting point for clubs in Germany to push academy coaches because he was successful from the start. Before Thomas, clubs would just bring in experienced managers.
“He has had a lot of different styles over the years. His game has changed over time. When he started at Mainz, he was playing the transition game. I coached against him at Hannover when he was at Mainz and he was playing the Jurgen Klopp style. Lots of pressing, counter-pressing, everything on the transition. It was fast football.
“But I think in the past couple of years, he has become a coach not exactly like Pep Guardiola but someone who plays the possession game. He had to change at Paris Saint-Germain because he could not tell the players to run like you-know-what there.
“I think that move to Paris was very important for him. Working abroad as a player or a coach is always very important. But if you have big players you have to adapt. Neymar and Kylian Mbappe are not going to come back if they lose the ball so it is different.
“Did you watch Paris in the Champions League? You could see in the game against Leipzig. He was playing very defensively and they were telling him that he could not play this style – this waiting football. But you could see that he managed to adapt his style of play.
“At Chelsea, I think he can play his own style again because he has a lot of young players who are still on their way to becoming superstars. There are not many there who are already superstars. He knows how to coach these young players so it could work.
“It is different if they are players who have already won trophies or have already worked with big coaches. It is totally different. Maybe, for that reason, Chelsea is better for him than Paris.”
Thomas Tuchel took charge of PSG in the summer of 2018 and was sacked last month after being 127 games in charge at the club. And in those 127 matches, PSG suffered only 20 losses which might seem like a staggering record.
But the reality is when you have people like Cavani, Neymar and Mbappe in your side, it does not take too much to break down oppositions, especially in the Ligue 1.
In the Premier League, things will be totally different but at the same time, Thomas Tuchel will undoubtedly have much more command over how his team plays on the pitch.
