Breaking News: Thomas Tuchel Sacked By Paris Saint-Germain
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Paris Saint-Germain have sacked head coach Thomas Tuchel, with Mauricio Pochettino set to return to management with his former club.

Just four months after leading the French side to the Champions League Final — ultimately going down to Bayern Munich — the German has been dismissed from his role at the Parc des Princes.

Tuchel side beat Strasbourg 4–0 in the league on Wednesday night, and are next in action against Saint-Etienne on January 6.

The German’s departure comes four months after he guided the club to their first Champions League final where they lost to Bayern Munich in Lisbon.

The 47-year-old replaced Unai Emery on a two-year contract in June 2018, and signed an extension last May which would have seen him stay in Paris until the end of the current campaign.

in October there was a public fallout over player recruitment with the club’s sporting director Leonardo.

“We lose too many players on free transfers. It is too, too much. We cannot ask this squad the same thing as we did last season.” Tuchel said.

The following day Leonardo voiced his disapproval of Tuchel’s comments, saying “you have to respect the people above you”.

“I didn’t like his comments, the club didn’t like them either,” he said.

“We have to understand the moment we are going through. If someone is not happy, it is easy — we can talk. But if you decide to stay, you have to respect the people above you.”

However The leader to take over at is Mauricio Pochettino, with the odds on the former Spurs boss as low as 1/20 before Sky Bet closed the betting. Reporter Max Bielefeld of Sky Germany said the 48-year-old, along with Massimiliano Allegri, is a potential successor.

Pochettino spent five and a half years at Spurs, leading them to the final of the Champions League, the final of the League Cup, and two semi-finals of the FA Cup, as well as four Premier League top-four finishes, before being fired on 2019 November

Pochettino told RMC Sport in 2016: “Coach one day at PSG, that would make me happy. It is a dream of mine. It is a club that I follow a lot. I try to watch their matches. Especially in the Champions League. Come back to PSG one day, why not?”

He told Sky Sports in November when asked where his next role will be: “I don’t know. I’m not going to close any door. I learnt when I was really, really young, [Pochettino’s former coach] Jorge Griffa would say, ‘Mauricio, football is going to dictate your way’.

“And I am waiting to feel what is the right project for us, which is the right way to take.

“My energy is full, I’d love to be involved in the game but at the same time I need to understand that at the moment is a good moment that you need to wait. You need to wait for the right project and for sure football is going to bring what football wants and we need to be open and to accept or not.”

PSG are currently third in Ligue 1 , a point behind leaders Lyon, and have lost four of their 17 games in the league this season.

In the Champions League PSG topped their group ahead of RB Leipzig and Manchester United , and will face Barcelona in the last 16 of the competition.