Bayern Munich introduced Friday they’d appointed former Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain coach Thomas Tuchel as their new boss after firing Julian Nagelsmann. Nagelsmann, 35, led Bayern to the quarter-finals of the Champions League and can face Premier League champions Manchester City subsequent month. But Bayern haven’t loved their regular dominance of the Bundesliga to date this season and so have changed Nagelsmann with 49-year-old Tuchel, who gained the Champions League with Chelsea in 2021.

The reigning German champions stated in a press release: “FC Bayern and head coach Julian Nagelsmann have parted company… Nagelsmann will be succeeded by Thomas Tuchel.”

Bayern stated Tuchel would obtain a contract till June 2025 and he’ll supervise coaching for the primary time on Monday.

Bayern chairman Oliver Kahn stated: “Personally and on behalf of FC Bayern, I would like to thank Julian and his coaching team, and wish everyone the best of luck for the future.”

Bayern signed Nagelsmann to a five-year deal simply two years in the past however nerves have been fraying because the perennial Bundesliga champions wrestle to carry onto their title.

They sit second to Tuchel’s former membership Borussia Dortmund within the league desk.

Tuchel — who Bayern had eyed beforehand however misplaced out to different top-flight European golf equipment — has been in between jobs after he was fired by Chelsea in September.

His first match will come as quickly as April 1, when Bayern meet Dortmund, the membership that Tuchel led from 2015-2017 earlier than he left for PSG.

Although Bayern beat PSG within the final 16 of the Champions League, dumping out a staff together with Kylian Mbappe, Neymar and Lionel Messi, the Germans then suffered a blow after they misplaced 2-1 in opposition to Bayer Leverkusen final Sunday.

Bayern’s sporting director Hasan Salihamidzic gave a withering evaluation of the staff after that, saying the gamers had “so little drive, mentality, tackling, assertiveness”.

With simply 9 video games left within the season, Nagelsmann himself had stated that the Dortmund match can be a “must-win game”, however he has been relieved of his duties.

A coach thought of probably the greatest younger skills in Europe will in all probability not lack for provides from different golf equipment, and his departure won’t go unnoticed by cash-rich golf equipment in England.

Tuchel has a fame for infrequent abrasiveness and calls for complete backing from his employers — a requirement which strained relations at each Chelsea and PSG.

He guided Chelsea to the Champions League title after they beat Manchester City 1-0 within the last in Porto in 2021, however was launched by the London membership quickly after the beginning of this season and changed by English supervisor Graham Potter.

Tuchel had been noticed in Munich in the previous couple of weeks, fuelling widespread hypothesis that he was in talks with Bayern.

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