How Tuchel Got Chelsea Ready For This Season
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
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🗓️ 18 August 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Hosts Dan Bardell and Flo Lloyd-Hughes speak to Liam Twomey about the evolution of Thomas Tuchel into the right man for Chelsea at exactly the right time in his own career... How 'Tommy Tactics' has learned from past mistakes in Paris and Dortmund, organising up to 42 players at one time or another during preseason, Lukaku's return and their assault on Man City's Premier League crown.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:03.0 | Hello, I'm Dan Bardell. |
| 0:17.3 | And I'm Flo Lloyd-Euse. |
| 0:18.6 | And welcome to the Athletic Football podcast, |
| 0:20.5 | where every Wednesday |
| 0:21.5 | Flo and I will pick one article from all the brilliant stuff that's available on the athletic |
| 0:26.3 | and will put our writers under the spotlight, although this week, Flo, we are doing something |
| 0:30.3 | slightly different, aren't we? Yeah, everyone has decided that they're going to take a holiday, |
| 0:34.7 | while we're not taking a holiday. So that means we're not going to |
| 0:38.0 | be able to chat to the two writers of the piece, but we will be chatting to Chelsea correspondent |
| 0:42.5 | Liam Toomey. He's going to talk all about the truth and the evidence behind Thomas Tuchel's |
| 0:48.3 | brilliant start as Chelsea manager, as well as Lukaku's arrival at Sanford Bridge and how Chelsea |
| 0:53.5 | are looking like one of the |
| 0:54.6 | favourites for the title. Yeah, so a little later on we're going to take a look at dancing double |
| 0:59.3 | sessions and the backstreet boys, how Tuchel got Chelsea ready for the season. But just before we get |
| 1:04.8 | into that flow, let's talk a little bit about the opening weekend in the Premier League. Did you enjoy it? |
| 1:10.4 | Yeah, it was brilliant. I think top of the list has to be fans being back. |
| 1:16.2 | Of course. |
| 1:16.5 | I think that just lifts the mood. You were at Rickeridge Road. |
| 1:20.9 | Yeah, that was not top of the list. |
| 1:23.8 | Wasn't quite the start to the season, but the vibes and the away end must have still been bouncing, right? The train journey, journey, all those bits and pieces. That was still enjoyable? The journey back was not because it took me four hours. Not the journey back, but no. But no, I tell you. Well, yeah, being back was brilliant, being the pub with all the villa fans before the game. We took over one of the Weatherspurn's pubs. |
| 1:44.2 | You know, it's been 18 months since we've been able to do things like that. And just being back in an away end, it was really, really good. But as always, with the Villa Rawada, it's the football that absolutely kills you. So that was the worst part of the day was obviously the game. I was not expecting to be three-nealed down. but he was great. |
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