Borussia Dortmund have announced that Thomas Tuchel will replace Jürgen Klopp as the side’s new manager. Tuchel has signed a three-year contract at the club and will officially take over a week after the end of the season.
On Wednesday, Borussia Dortmund announced that Klopp had asked to leave the club after a difficult season. The chief executive Hans-Joachim Watzke confirmed that Dortmund had agreed to release him early from his contract.
Tuchel was immediately installed as the favourite to replace Klopp and he was backed by a number of former Germany players like Stefan to take up the reins. Like Klopp, Tuchel is a former Mainz coach and was a hot property while managing the club. While there he was approached by Schalke and Bayer Leverkusen to be their manager. Tuchel remains under contract at Mainz until the send of the season but he has spent a year on sabbatical.
Klopp has made it clear that he wants to return to management after leaving Dortmund. “I am not tired. I may look tired but I am not. I am 0.0% tired. I haven’t had any contact with any other clubs but am not planning a sabbatical,” said Klopp. “I have always said that the day I feel that I am no longer the perfect coach for this extraordinary club I will say that. That is something I have thought about in every phase here at Dortmund and decided in the last few weeks, days, that I was no longer able to be absolutely sure about that. And then, because of the unusual relationship I have with this club, the trust we have for each other, it was my duty to tell the club.”
