The fundamental thing when you get a new job and start coming to the workplace is to show why you were chosen in the first place. Knowledge, quality, dedication, ideas, innovation… It’s not ideal to have your mistakes uncovered within less than two months of starting the job.Truth be told, the English Football Association (FA) has no complaints about Thomas Tuchel’s work during the first six and a half weeks of his tenure, but the public is quite concerned about the German coach’s commitment.🚨 The FA is allowing Thomas Tuchel the flexibility to make regular trips back to Germany to see his family, even though it has meant him missing three Premier League weekends, the third round of the FA Cup and all four Carabao Cup semi-final matches in his first six-and-a-half… pic.twitter.com/PKujk34hUG— Transfer News Live (@DeadlineDayLive) February 18, 2025 National team gatherings take place every few months, but national team managers have plenty of work in between as club football is ongoing. They need to observe, analyze, and think about the current squad and ways to improve, refresh, or modify it.And that is precisely where the issue lies. Tuchel is being criticized for frequently traveling to Germany, which the FA has allowed him to do, resulting in him not being able to regularly attend matches and monitor the performances and form of England’s current and potential national team players.The FA claims that in the first 47 days of his tenure, which began on January 1, 2025, German watched as many as 17 matches (essentially one match every three days on average) in England and abroad. However, the meticulous British Times has countered this with its own perspective.”I’d like to see the England manager doing a little bit of work.” 👀”It doesn’t look great.” 👎Troy Deeney CALLS OUT Thomas Tuchel for poor communication and bad optics as England manager! 🔥 pic.twitter.com/KRfqzy6g76— talkSPORT (@talkSPORT) February 18, 2025 The newspaper claims that Tuchel missed three entire weekends of Premier League action, the third round of the FA Cup, and both legs of the EFL Cup semifinals.The 51-year-old strategist was officially introduced as the new manager of the Three Lions in mid-October last year, signing an 18-month contract with an annual salary of 6 milion euros. This means he is set to earn 9 milions over the duration of the contract, with the expectation that he justifies this enormous sum by winning the 2026 World Cup.We know that the English approach every World Cup with championship optimism and euphoria, considering anything short of the trophy a failure—despite having reached the European Championship final twice and playing in the semifinals and quarterfinals of the last two World Cups.©The Times and The Sunday TimesBut when you are at the helm of a national team that believes football is “coming home” before every major tournament, one with one of the largest fan bases in the world, you must be prepared to be scrutinized not just under a magnifying glass but under a microscope by the public.Tuchel was allowed to skip the November international break, with interim coach Lee Carsley taking charge. As a result, the German is yet to announce his first squad, which will come for the March fixtures against Albania and Latvia—the start of England’s World Cup qualifying campaign.•Lee Carsleys England manager stint is over•-—-Lee Carsley: pic.twitter.com/nQMkxhdxH4— SimpsonsEFL (@EflSimpsons) November 15, 2024 The Times has also compiled a detailed list of the matches he has attended, as well as those he has missed, with some absences being justified and others deemed unacceptable by many.##NAJAVA_MECA_8720091##
