🚨 Thomas Tuchel on Cole Palmer after his performance against Brighton:
🗣️ “Cole made my decision very difficult. Leaving him out of the World Cup squad was not easy because I know exactly what he is capable of.
But I had to look at the season he was having. The injuries, the lack of rhythm and the competition for his position meant I had to make a decision based on what I saw at the time.
Now I watch him against Brighton, creating, fighting and playing with that confidence again, and of course I’m happy for him.
Cole doesn’t need me to tell him how good he can be. He just needs to stay fit and keep playing like this.
Maybe the decision was painful, but it was never personal.”
Tuchel is visibly incredibly pissed off in his interview.
That’s the difference between him and Southgate. Tuchel is a born winner.
Even if we come up short this time, we need to keep him.
Bang on. Yet again tryna cause division when it should be a celebration. Why can’t we all just drop our agendas etc and just back them. We all want the same outcome ffs.
I was never a huge Tuchel fan but his in game changes are a big reason we are still in this WC and he is absolutely right to call out lazy punditry like this
Gabriel Clarke has just epitomised the English media in 2 short interviews there. Absolutely abysmal questioning, going out his way to try and stir something up between tuchel and Bellingham proper WEIRD. #NORENG#ThreeLions
@JamesMelville Hope Gabriel Clarke enjoys his 15 minutes of fame for trying to stir up unnecessary beef between the manager and England's star player. Hope the payout from ITV, for getting this scoop, is worth hampering your own country's chances of winning the WC 👍🏻👍🏻
And people wonder why the team hasn’t won something. The enemy is inside, people like Gabriel Clarke.
While not exactly, it is the closest thing to treason - your country is doing well but all you care about is the headlines and sowing division at this stage of the tournament. Unacceptable!
I watched the live post match interview by Gabriel Clarke and he seemed to have a personal vendetta against Tuchel.
His relay of Tuchel’s comments to Bellingham in the way he did seemed intentional and that he knew what he was doing.
Nonetheless, that doesn’t excuse Bellingham for responding the way he did about his gaffer!
@JamesMelville@10agapanthus Agreed, Tuchel was astounded Clarke mistook his mentalality comments. The players WON because of their mental fortitude 🤷♀️