FORMER Hansi Flick’s successor as manager of Germany may be Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel, according to rumours.
Four years after experiencing the same fate in Russia, the World Cup heavyweights were eliminated in the group stage in Qatar.
Oliver Bierhoff, the national team’s director, announced his resignation on Monday in the wake of the disastrous campaign.
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Additionally, Flick’s position is in jeopardy after the former manager of Bayern Munich issued a pretty critical comment in the wake of Bierhoff’s departure.
“My coaching staff and I are currently having a hard time imagining how the vacuum created by Oliver’s departure can be addressed professionally and personally,” he stated.
Kicker knows that former Chelsea player Tuchel is one of the front-runners to succeed Flick, 57, if he is fired or decides to leave his position.
After a spate of disappointing defeats, the Blues fired the 49-year-old German coach back in September.
However, ultimately, he was a success at Stamford Bridge, when he joined the team and won the Champions League in less than six months.
Ralf Rangnick, the former manager of Manchester United, may join him in the Germany squad.
Rangnick, 64, took a coaching position with the Austria national team last season and left Old Trafford after a brief time as interim head coach.
However, he is being mentioned as a candidate to succeed Bierhoff as the Germans’ director of football.
When the two first met in 1997 at Ulm, Rangnick served as Tuchel’s head coach.
He then offered Tuchel a position as a young coach at Stuttgart three years later.
Hertha Berlin’s Fredi Bobic is another candidate who has been linked to the position of sporting director in Germany.