Sour grapes or the truth? After Graham Potter was sacked by Chelsea, new owner Todd Boehly started the search for a third coach in just over six months of his reign. He found a caretaker (Frank Lampard), but the fourth one will be selected soon and will take charge after the season ends. There were a lot of candidates, but Julian Naglesmann’s agent now claims that the sacked Bayern Munich coach was Chelsea’s first choice but refused due to the club’s current state. These claims came after practically all British media confirmed that Maurizio Pochettino will be appointed as the new coach on a three-year deal in the upcoming days. ‘If he didn’t go skiing, maybe he would still be Bayern’s coach’The Athletic also claims that the club denied that Nagelsmann was their first choice, and only acknowledged that he was amount the candidates, but not the main one. Still, Volker Struth is sticking with his side of the story. ‘I can confirm that Chelsea were quick to call after Nagelsmann’s dismissal at Bayern Munich. There were some phone conversations. It was the right decision by Nagelsmann not to go there. It’s a club in troubled waters at the moment. And their transfer policy, spending a few hundred million euros, has raised expectations that need to be met. There were also some other issues. He was their number one choice, that was our information. I believe it would have happened if he had wanted it’ he said to Bild’s podcast Phrasenmaher. Second time lucky? Chelsea make another attempt to sell their mess to PochettinoNagelsmann’s agent also described the moment when he found out that his client will be sacked from Bayern and he got the information from a journalist. His words basically confirmed his claims, which were denied by Bayern’s executives, that they didn’t inform Naglesmann of his sacking before bringing Tuchel. “I was in a Cologne restaurant with some friends. We were drinking a bottle of wine when I got a call from a journalist who said: ‘That was quick with Julian!’ I answered: ‘What do you mean?’ And he said: ‘How, you don’t know that yet? Julian is out and Tuchel is the new coach! We got more and more messages over the course of the evening and then contacted Julian – he didn’t know anything either and asked us about the motto: ‘Are you kidding me?’ One or two hours later, the density of information from the media became so great that my partner Sascha Breese then contacted Hasan Salihamidzic and asked via WhatsApp: ‘Do we need to know something?’ And then the call came: ‘Come to the office on Sabener Strasse tomorrow.’ And then we knew there was something to it“ revealed Struth. ##NAJAVA_MECA_7261852##
