He came to the meeting interested in taking the job but left the talks with a decision to take a year off. That’s the shortest possible sum-up of the meeting between Thomas Tuchel and Sir Jim Ratcliffe. All British media reported that the direct meeting happened between the minority owner of Manchester United and former Bayern, Chelsea, PSG and Borussia coach Thomas Tuchel last Tuesday and that the result of the meeting was that the German coach is out of the running for a place at Old Trafford. Also, nobody knows if the place in the dugout will be available at all. The same sources are saying that even if Tuchel accepted, it wouldn’t mean that Eric ten Hag would be sacked. It was simply an informative meeting in which Ratcliffe wanted to know what Tuchel’s ideas were. The future of the Dutch coach is still up in the air and will be resolved in the next few days, a week from now at the latest. If Manchester United hadn’t won the FA Cup with a win over arch-rivals and four-time consecutive England champions, there would be no debate – Ten Hag would be an ex-manager by now. But since he won two trophies in two seasons, and since he had a huge number of injuries which prevented him from reaching more than just an eight spot, he well may stay at the United’s bench, with possible replacements being Roberto De Zerbi and Thomas Frank. Man United and Tottenham want ama(Eze)ing EberechiBut how did the meeting end, and why is Tuchel out of the picture? Well, as per The Times, Tuchel left the meeting with the sense that he was not going to be United’s choice should they dismiss Ten Hag, and has now elected to have a break from management. During the meeting, The German tactician gave his ideas for running Manchester if he was the boss. Among other things, he said to Ratcliffe that he could be able to get the best of Mason Mount, who was among his biggest disappointments this season, and pointed out that he managed to do the same with Antonio Rudiger when he coached Chelsea. He also emphasized that he would bring back Jadon Sancho from Borussia Dortmund and use him in the team. ##NAJAVA_MECA_8151657##
