Tuchel, 51, guided Chelsea to Champions League success in 2021 but was sacked the following year.
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Speaking before the announcement, Harry Kane described Thomas Tuchel ‘as a fantastic coach’
Tuchel is the first non-English manager to take the role since Fabio Capello quit in 2012, and only the third overall, following the Italian and the Swede, Sven-Goran Eriksson.
FA chief executive Mark Bullingham and technical director John McDermott have been in discussions with Tuchel since last month.
Before the appointment was confirmed, England captain Harry Kane welcomed the idea of Tuchel taking over.
Kane, who was coached by the German at Bayern Munich last season, told Sky Sports at a club fan event in the city: “I know Thomas well from last year. Fantastic coach, fantastic person”.
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Kane, who was signed by Tuchel, had the best season of his career, scoring 44 goals in 45 games.
The FA has not commented but Sky Sports’ Rob Dorsett said the association will confirm the appointment at a Wednesday lunchtime news conference. It’s not clear if Tuchel himself will be there.
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He called today’s development an “extraordinary situation, given the extra controversy that it’ll bring, and the rivalry between England and Germany that goes back so many decades”.
Tuchel, he said, will earn around £4.5m to £5m, calling that “a significant pay-cut for a very decorated club manager”.
Proven winner backed to repeat the trick with England
England acted quickly to potentially avoid losing out on Thomas Tuchel.
They have not just gone for a third foreign Three Lions manager but also a proven winner at club level – like Sven-Göran Eriksson and Fabio Capello.
The German won the biggest club prize of them all – the Champions League with Chelsea after five months in the job.
He then navigated the complexity of being the face of the Blues after owner Roman Abramovich was sanctioned and forced to sell.
But he was gone within months of the takeover.
And there was always talk of potential friction over transfers – as there was in his season at Bayern Munich – but that won’t be an issue with a national team.
His challenge in a first international job – deliver the trophy England came so close to winning under Gareth Southgate but fell short twice in Euros finals.
Former Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp told Sky News it was a pity that young England managers were overlooked.
Asked what the new manager needs to do, he said he needed to show a “little bit of common sense, pick the right players, put them in the right positions, give them a bit of pride in playing for their country”.
The German, he said, has a great opportunity “to come and win a tournament with a great group of young players”.
As well as the Champions League, Tuchel led Chelsea to Super Cup and Club World Cup victory and steered Paris Saint-Germain and Bayern to the French and German league titles respectively.
He was one of the bookmakers’ favourites for the England job, along with, among others, Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola.
According to Sky Sports, the FA approached the Spaniard’s representatives, but there were no further developments.
Other leading candidates are believed to have included another German, former Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp, and the English pair, Graham Potter and Newcastle’s Eddie Howe.
England under-21 coach Lee Carsley was in interim charge of the senior team for the four autumn Nations League matches and was thought to have been a candidate for the job.
He guided the Three Lions to three wins, but a 2-1 defeat to Greece at Wembley last Friday, along with a lack of clarity from him regarding his ambitions, had prompted doubts over his suitability for the full-time role.
Specialist search teams, police dogs and divers have been dispatched to find two sisters who vanished in Aberdeen three days ago.
Eliza and Henrietta Huszti, both 32, were last seen on CCTV in the city’s Market Street at Victoria Bridge at about 2.12am on Tuesday.
The siblings were captured crossing the bridge and turning right onto a footpath next to the River Dee in the direction of Aberdeen Boat Club.
Police Scotland has launched a major search and said it is carrying out “extensive inquires” in an effort to find the women.
Chief Inspector Darren Bruce said: “Local officers, led by specialist search advisors, are being assisted by resources including police dogs and our marine unit.”
Aberdeenshire Drone Services told Sky News it has offered to help in the search and is waiting to hear back from Police Scotland.
The sisters, from Aberdeen city centre, are described as slim with long brown hair.
Police said the Torry side of Victoria Bridge where the sisters were last seen contains many commercial and industrial units, with searches taking place in the vicinity.
The force urged businesses in and around the South Esplanade and Menzies Road area to review CCTV footage recorded in the early hours of Tuesday in case it captured anything of significance.
Drivers with relevant dashcam footage are also urged to come forward.
CI Bruce added: “We are continuing to speak to people who know Eliza and Henrietta and we urge anyone who has seen them or who has any information regarding their whereabouts to please contact 101.”
Britain’s gas storage levels are “concerningly low” with less than a week of demand in store, the operator of the country’s largest gas storage site said on Friday.
Plunging temperatures and high demand for gas-fired power stations are the main factors behind the low levels, Centrica said.
The UK is heavily reliant on gas for its home heating and also uses a significant amount for electricity generation.
As of the 9th of January 2025, UK storage sites are 26% lower than last year’s inventory at the same time, leaving them around half full,” Centrica said.
“This means the UK has less than a week of gas demand in store.”
The firm’s Rough gas storage site, a depleted field off England’s east coast, makes up around half of the country’s gas storage capacity.
Glasgow has been a city crying out for solutions to a devastating drugs epidemic that is ravaging people hooked on deadly narcotics.
We have spent time with vulnerable addicts in recent months and witnessed first-hand the dirty, dangerous street corners and back alleys where they would inject their £10 heroin hit, not knowing – or, in many cases, not caring – whether that would be the moment they die.
“Dying would be better than this life,” one man told me.
It was a grim insight into the daily reality of life in the capital of Europe’s drug death crisis.
Scotland has a stubborn addiction to substances spanning generations. Politicians of all persuasions have failed to properly get a grip of the emergency.
But there is a new concept in town.
From Monday, a taxpayer-funded unit is allowing addicts to bring their own heroin and cocaine and inject it while NHS medical teams supervise.
It may be a UK-first but it is a regular feature in some other major European cities that have claimed high success rates in saving lives.
Glasgow has looked on with envy at these other models.
One supermarket car park less than a hundred metres from this new facility is a perfect illustration of the problem. An area littered with dirty needles and paraphernalia. A minefield where one wrong step risks contracting a nasty disease.
It is estimated hundreds of users inject heroin in public places in Glasgow every week. HIV has been rife.
The new building, which will be open from 9am until 9pm 365 days a year, includes bays where clean needles are provided as part of a persuasive tactic to lure addicts indoors in a controlled environment.
There is a welcome area where people will check in before being invited into one of eight bays. The room is clinical, covered in mirrors, with a row of small medical bins.
We were shown the aftercare area where users will relax after their hit in the company of housing and social workers.
The idea is controversial and not cheap – £2.3m has been ring-fenced every year.
Authorities in the city first floated a ‘safer drug consumption room’ in 2016. It failed to get off the ground as the UK Home Office under the Conservatives said they would not allow people to break the law to feed habits.
The usual wrangle between Edinburgh and London continued for years with Downing Street suggesting Scotland could, if it wanted, use its discretion to allow these injecting rooms to go ahead.
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The stalemate ended when Scotland’s most senior prosecutor issued a landmark decision that it would not be in the public interest to arrest those using such a facility.
One expert has told me this new concept is unlikely to lead to an overall reduction in deaths across Scotland. Another described it as an expensive vanity project. Supporters clearly disagree.
The question is what does success look like?
The big test will be if there is a spike in crime around the building and how it will work alongside law enforcement given drug dealers know exactly where to find their clients now.
It is not disputed this is a radical approach – and other cities across Britain will be watching closely.