Less than a week before facing Real Madrid for the first leg of the Champions League quarterfinals, more than one was surprised by the departure of Graham Potter of the Chelsea. Not so much because of the previous results –which had been questionable if we take into account the large investment they made in signings–, but because of the proximity of such an important meeting. After that, around Stamford Bridge they already began to consider the possible substitutes and whoever has the most strength is Julian Nagelsman.
As expected, the news quickly reached Germany, the country where the 35-year-old coach last worked. Without being oblivious to the reality of his colleague, Thomas Tuchel, who took his place on the Bayern Munich bench, gave his opinion on the possibility of him coming to the London club. Curiously, the institution where he worked before coming to Bavaria.
“Julian (Nagelsmann) isn’t going to ask me because he doesn’t need my advice. I got the news of (Graham) Potter’s firing yesterday on my phone as a push notification.”, said the German at a press conference, when asked about the immediate future of Nagelsmann. And it is that, after having recently worked at Chelsea, who better than him to analyze his outlook.
Tuchel’s departure from the ‘Blues’ was not on good terms and Todd Boehly, after taking the reins of the club, never argued for such a complex decision. Graham Potter, who took his place, is gone and evidently has a private opinion. “Last night I saw the news about Potter being fired; It took me a while to process my layoff. Chelsea have changed a lot after that (his departure from him), so it affected me less”, he pointed out.
Nagelsmann will not feel alone at Chelsea
According to the English newspaper Telegraphinside Chelsea “there will be an exhaustive search for a replacement” perfect for Graham Potter and “at the moment there is nothing imminent”. However, they add:There will be a process to appoint the next permanent coach, but there are a couple of reasons why Julian Nagelsmann is the top seed.”.
What are tokens reasons? It happens that in the past the German already worked with two important people in the sports area of Chelsea, Christopher Vivell and Paul Winstanley, current technical director and director of Global Talent and Transfers. Nagelsmann knows them from his days at RB Leipzig and knows perfectly well that he would not venture into a project without direction.
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“His agent is well known to Chelsea owners for the sale of Timo Werner, whom he also represents”, they add in Telegraph. Likewise, Fabrizio Romano, a journalist specializing in the transfer market, remarked: “Julian Nagelsmann was mentioned yesterday during internal discussionss”. If the talks start sooner than expected, it is most likely that we will soon have news of the next Chelsea manager.
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