Todd Boehly reveals reason behind Thomas Tuchel sacking

Tuchel

who won the

for

in 2021 was sacked last week after a 1-0 defeat against

and was replaced with former Brighton manager

Graham Potter.

Boehly

in a conference in New York on Tuesday said Tuchel was sacked because he did not share their vision for the future of the club.

"When you take over any business, you just have to make sure that you’re aligned with the people who are operating the business,"

he told the SALT Conference.

"Tuchel is obviously extremely talented and someone who had great success at Chelsea.

"Our vision for the club was finding a manager who really wanted to collaborate with us, a coach who really wanted to collaborate.

"I think there are a lot of walls to break down at Chelsea. Before the first team, for example, in the academy, they didn't really share data. They didn't share information about where the top players were coming from.”

Boehly insists Tuchel's sacking was a decision with the long-term picture in mind.

"So, our goal is to really bring the team together with the academy, with the first team, when we want to acquire and develop; all of that needs to be a well-oiled machine.

"The reality of our decision was that we just weren't sure that Thomas saw it the same way we saw it, and no one's right or wrong. We didn't have a shared vision for the future.

"It wasn't about Zagreb, it was really about a decision for what we wanted Chelsea Football Club to look like and it wasn't a decision as a result of a single win or loss.

"It was a decision made about what we thought was the right vision for the club."

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