Former Premier League striker Kevin Doyle has hit out at the Chelsea owners and believes that Thomas Tuchel will be sacked ‘sooner rather than later’.
Chelsea’s season hit a new low on Tuesday evening as they fell to a bitterly disappointing 1-0 defeat to Dinamo Zagreb in Croatia.
It wasn’t the start that Tuchel would have wanted to his Champions League campaign and following recent defeats to Leeds and Southampton on the road it continues an unwanted trend for the Blues away from home.
Todd Boehly invested a single transfer window record of £271.1m into the squad this summer but the team is struggling and Doyle has now launched a scathing attack on both the hierarchy and Tuchel as well as laying out what he expects to happen at Stamford Bridge this season.
Speaking on RTE and as uploaded to the broadcaster’s Twitter account he said:
“I’ve been saying since the end of last season that Tuchel will be sacked, first of the top five, six managers to get the sack. I was saying in October, I think it will be September now. Just his demeanor, his interviews, everything, the way he’s been going about things in the last six months.
“I think he’s been really negative, he doesn’t seem happy to me. He wasn’t like he was in that first season.
“But then everything that’s gone on behind the scenes, you know, some of that is not his fault with the whole change of ownership.
“Sending Fofana to New York for a medical. I actually know their physio and they’ve got some of the best medical team and doctors and they’re in London. You know, send him to New York to get jetlagged and fly him back, you know stuff like that, the owner getting involved like that just seems mad.
“Just stuff going on behind the scenes like that signals to me that they’re going to have a tough season. I don’t see them finishing in the top four and as I said I see the manager getting sacked sooner rather than later.”
The Blues have won just three of their first seven matches in all competitions this season and while it could be said that the situation at Cobham is being blown out of proportion it is clear that something isn’t right within the squad.
To suggest that the German manager, however, will be relieved of his duties at such an early stage of the season however, does sound a bit far-fetched but if Tuchel fails to change the fortunes of the club then the pressure will continue to mount for sure and Doyle’s theory could hold true.
