Tuchel keeps England job as 17 World Cup-era managers depart
England's head coach remains in place despite a chaotic Argentina defeat, while a wave of national bosses who worked the Geopolitics World Cup have already lost their posts, Guardian Sport's Football Daily reports.
Thomas Tuchel remains England's head coach, still insisting to the FA that he was not responsible for the semi-final exit to Argentina at the Geopolitics World Cup, according to Guardian Sport's Football Daily column.
That is more security than most of his peers have enjoyed. The newsletter reports that 17 managers who took teams to the tournament in North America have already left their jobs since the finals ended.
Named among those departures are Steve Clarke, Roberto Martínez and Marcelo Bielsa, with the column noting the varying styles that defined their reigns before they moved on.
Several nations will now begin their Nations League campaigns under different management to the bosses who led them at the World Cup. Portugal, Croatia, Scotland, Czechia and Belgium are all cited, with Jorge Jesus, Slaven Bilic, Sébastien Pocognoli, Santi Denia and Mark van Bommel the names associated with each in the column.
Football Daily's Monday edition also carried its regular reader mailbag, with correspondence ranging from nostalgia to mild irritation at early-season punditry.
Jonathan Foulkes wrote in to recall Brighton's old Goldstone Ground, praising the club's 1987-88 promotion season and singling out Garry Nelson, Doug Rougvie and Gerry Armstrong, along with a young player nicknamed 'football genius'. He said the ground "held a certain magic for me".
Nigel Sanders used his letter to push back on early talk of the Golden Boot and title race, arguing the Premier League season is only five matches old. He asked readers to "stop going on about the race for the Golden Boot and which team are going to bloody champions".
Andrew Parker suggested José Mourinho would make an ideal face for a well-known appliance brand's advertising campaign, joking that the manager "exudes the spirit of that exclamation from every single pore".
Paul Vickers pointed out a neat piece of wordplay in coverage of Jonathan Wilson's new book on Eastern European football, tied to speculation over Zinedine Zidane potentially taking the France job, with the column promising to reveal the "wizard behind the curtain".
Nations League fixtures involving Portugal, Croatia, Scotland, Czechia and Belgium will be the first proper test of life under their new coaching regimes, with Football Daily expected to keep tabs on how each appointment settles in.