Thomas Tuchel has agreed to become new England manager
Former Chelsea, PSG and Bayern Munich manager Thomas Tuchel has agreed to become the new permanent England manager.
Tuchel was only recently tipped as a candidate after talks with the FA, but The Times reported that he's going to be the new Three Lions boss and is expected to be unveiled as such later this week.
He would take over from Gareth Southgate on a permanent basis and step into the role that Lee Carsley has held in the interim.
Tuchel would become the third non-English manager to take charge of the Three Lions on a permanent basis after Sven-Goran Eriksson and Fabio Capello.
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Having managed a number of Europe's top clubs he has an impressive record in cup competitions which may endear him to international management, at least England fans will be hoping that to be the case.
His last foray into English football was with Chelsea, where he took over a team in the doldrums after Frank Lampard's time as manager and led them to Champions League glory.
The season before that he'd taken the notoriously volatile French club PSG to the final of the same competition.
Tuchel's time at Chelsea ended early on in the club's current chaotic era under Todd Boehly, with the club slumping to a 12th placed finish in his absence.
He then moved to Bayern Munich, where he worked with England striker Harry Kane but failed to guide them to the Bundesliga title for the first time in years.
Joe Harker