THOMAS TUCHEL has been tipped to take over at Manchester United by club legend Steve Bruce.
It was announced by Bayern Munich this morning that Tuchel would be leaving the club at the end of the season.
The German giants look set to be beaten to the Bundesliga title for the first time since 2012 by Xabi Alonso’s record-breaking Bayer Leverkusen.
And they have already lined up the Spaniard as a potential replacement for the German which would come as a blow to Liverpool’s own hopes of appointing Alonso.
In the meantime, Tuchel, 50, has been tipped to take over the reigns at Old Trafford in the event that Erik ten Hag is sacked.
That opinion comes from Red Devils icon Bruce, who won three Premier League titles at Man Utd.
Speaking to OLBG, Bruce said: “Thomas Tuchel would be a good fit wherever he goes and I think it was a bit harsh that he ever lost his job with Chelsea in the first place.
“If you’re the manager of Bayern Munich now, you cannot be losing three games in a row, that’s the problem.
“It doesn’t matter who the manager is, which underlines the problem that I’ve been talking about.
“Okay, they’ve had a bad two weeks in Europe and domestically, and the manager will come under pressure.
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“He will be fine, that is for sure.”
Bruce has also been left impressed by Man Utd’s move to appoint Dan Ashworth, who has been placed on gardening leave by Newcastle after he was approached to become the Red Devils’ sporting director.
Bruce, 63, added: “It would be a huge coup for Manchester United to get him away from Newcastle. There is no doubt this guy has probably invented the Director of Football role in this country.
“While it may be more common in Europe, Dan has certainly been one of the first in this country.
“When you look at his track record at every club he has been, I have the utmost respect for him and I wish him the best of luck.
“It seems as though he will be making the move over to United, purely just based on the speculation, and if so then you just hope for a speedy resolution to it all for every side.
“He’s a very talented man and I’ve said this many times since I left Newcastle, you have to say Amanda Staveley and the people running the club have made three very shrewd appointments.
“Dan, Darren Eales and then of course Eddie, have all been three very good appointments and they’ve done fantastically well.
“That’s been Newcastle’s strength; where a lot of clubs get taken over and they haven’t got the structure right, they spend colossal sums of money, Newcastle have bought very well and everybody who has walked through the door has seemed to be a success.
“That’s not easy with the sums of money they are paying for people these days, so you have to say Dan is a real class act and highly thought of in the game.”
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