Apparently Tuchel's fate is sealed at Dortmund!
For those who don't follow this stuff closely. Watzke gave an interview midweek (1) where he was asked whether or not there was some dissent between him and Tuchel surrounding the attack on their bus.
The most important questions regarding this mess:
Q: Your coach earned a lot of public credit as a for his empathic crisis management, with you as well?
W: "I obviously assess everything regarding the attack within the context of what we discussed in confidence and what was possible."
Q: The CL match vs Monaco was replayed one day after the attack. The coach as well as the team criticised the new match date heavily afterwards, did what irritate you.
W: (takes his time) "Partially."
Q: Through that question a clear dissent became visible between you on one side and the coach on the other
W: "That's true, yes."
Tuchels response when questioned by Sky was:
"I forbid myself to think about that. That's too big a topic for a matchday. So I don't allow myself as a coach to indulge that. We're facing such important matches, we have such important goals. We need to focus on our goals on the pitch. We can't allow ourselves to be distracted. "
When questioned about the timing of Watzke's interview he said "I won't comment on that".
[This might be lost in translation, but I got a very passive aggressive vibe from his reply.]
And today the shots are being fired, starting with an article in SZ (2), by one of BVB's mouthpieces:
The cliffnotes:
-It became known from within the club that Tuchel was expected to simply acknowledge the dissent as a natural consequence of an impossible situation. But apparently TT chose to opt establishing moral superiority over deescalation.
-Tuchel apparently was kept in the loop via phone by Watzke during the discussion with UEFA and didn't object to rescheduling the match to the following day (they attribute this information directly to Watzke)
-Watzke apparently offered Tuchel to forfeit the match. The latter refused though and later accused UEFA of inhumanely forcing them to play the next day via SMS.
-Dortmund's officials supposedly thought to be in agreement over their course with Tuchel initially but later they got the impression that the latter preferred to "surf the wave of morality" and sell himself as the voice of empathy and compassion, at the cost of the club and it's officials (Rauball and Watzke I gues) who in turn looked like they spinelessly caved in to UEFA.
-Watzke, Zorc and several players have supposedly been complaining for months about the public differences of opinion with the coach behind the scenes, but never spoke up (publicly) because it would've been bad for business.
-Tuchel's private press secretary is supposedly under suspicion of revealing internas to bolster Tuchel's position.
-You supposedly have to try very hard to find someone with sympathies for the outwardly charming Tuchel within the clubs offices. boards/comittees or the ranks of former players.
-That's supposedly no surprise since many regular employees report of unfriendliness.
-(Active) players apparently complain that "when you get special praise from the coach you can expect to not even make the squad"
-Support for Tuchel within the squad apparently seems limited and a player is quoted that the impression of a especially close relationship since the attack only exists in the media.
-No one up the food chain at the club apparently can accept the image of Tuchel as a genius who is just a bit socially akward.
-"so many system changes in the middle of the match, two tactical subs at half time already, that really cant be it" - supposedly a direct quote from a player
-someone from the inner circle of the club supposedly said "We were warned from Mainz [Tuchel's former club] to expect difficulties. We didn't listen. Everything went well for half a year, then everything went as foretold by Mainz."
Dortmund's other mouthpiece RN writes (3) that it's understandable that Watzke doesn't accept a leading employee accusing him (against better knowledge) of betraying the team.
And that there is supposedly a considerable rift between the coach and his players, despite Tuchel suggesting otherwise in public. The truth supposedly is that the level of support for Tuchel within the team is way lower than that needed for a healthy chemistry.
"The discrepancy beween his public statements and his internal actions (which can't be rationally explained) is too big."
(1)
https://www.derwesten.de/sport/fuss...ine-meinung-ueber-hoffenheim-id210475601.html
(2)
http://www.sueddeutsche.de/sport/st...watzke-dortmund-driftet-auseinander-1.3494349
(3)
https://www.ruhrnachrichten.de/spor...n-laesst-sich-nicht-streiten;art11635,3271882
To put this into perspective:
SZ is a very reputable paper beyond the scope of sports, they aren't in the business of inventing fairytales and have a reputation to maintain.
And RN is Dortmund's media partner, the closest paper to the club, I don't see them burning their bridges with the club by publishing this without checking in with someone from the club first.
Obviously we don't know how selective the perspective of certain things in the articles are, but they clearly represent the club's "official inofficial" version of what's going on.
And I don't see how any side can have the slightest intention of continuing past this summer after Tuchel has been burned to the ground (or at least attempted to) by those reports.
