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Thomas Tuchel has confirmed his dedication to Bayern Munich for the rest of the season amid studies linking the German with managerial roles at Barcelona and Manchester United.
Earlier this week, the Bundesliga champions introduced that Tuchel can be leaving the Allianz Area in the summertime, after Bayern have suffered three consecutive essential defeats in current weeks.
The membership is second within the desk, eleven factors behind leaders Bayer Leverkusen, who simply defeated Bayern with a formidable 3–0 win two weekends in the past.
They then misplaced 1–0 to Lazio within the first leg of their Champions League final sixteen tie, having already misplaced the DFB-Pokal (German Cup) to 3rd division aspect Saarbrucken earlier within the season. Bayern additionally misplaced the DFL Supercup at first of the 12 months, dropping 3–0 to RB Leipzig.
In brief, this has been an unusually poor season for a membership accustomed to dominance at home and continental degree.
In response, Bayern is implementing a “sporting restructuring” throughout the membership, with a variety of adjustments going down at government degree and the squad deliberate for the summer season. Below this course of the supervisor may also change.
Talking at a press convention on Friday, Tuchel was requested about his future following the announcement.
The coach has been linked with the managerial function at Previous Trafford, with studies from Germany indicating that he has at all times dreamed of teaching United, and is open to returning to England.
Tuchel was beforehand supervisor at Chelsea, serving to the London membership to an surprising Champions League triumph in 2021. He left Stamford Bridge in September 2022 after clashing with the membership's American proprietor Todd Boehly.
Chelsea's situation as a crew since this level has largely justified Tuchel's choice, with many Chelsea followers contemplating his dismissal a severe mistake given the standard of his subsequent successors.
Eric ten Hag has confronted his personal struggles at Previous Trafford this season. An unprecedented harm disaster has plagued his crew, whereas an try and develop a brand new type of play, based mostly on turnovers, has confronted teething issues, to place it mildly.
Outcome?
United suffered disappointing exits from the Champions League and Carabao Cup at the beginning of the 12 months, whereas the membership sit sixth within the Premier League desk with a purpose distinction of simply 1. The FA Cup presents the final likelihood for achievement this 12 months.
This has left Ten Hag's future unsure forward of a serious summer season change at Previous Trafford.
On the query of his future, Tuchel replied: “Nothing goes to occur to me earlier than the tip of the season. I’ve very excessive skilled expectations of myself and am utterly devoted to Bayern Munich till the tip of the season.”
Whereas Tuchel's phrases don’t reveal his intentions in the summertime, the truth that he has additionally refused to rule out something does little to quell the rumors linking him with the Ten Hag function. Will do.
The Champions League race within the Premier League may determine whether or not the Premier League performs a job in the summertime. The ball is now in Ten Hag's court docket.