Which Thomas Tuchel will turn up on his first day as England manager?

The coach is faced with the difficult task of preserving Gareth Southgate?s legacy of unity while also turning the team into one that can end a 60-year trophy drought
Volker Kersting, Mainz academy director, sighed. Thomas Tuchel, as of Wednesday England?s new manager, had that look in his eyes. ?He just said, ?Volker? and I knew what was coming,? Kersting said in Rulebreaker, the Tuchel biography by Daniel Meuren and Tobias Sch?chter. ?I?d been dreading it. He really wanted to go up the mountain and dig up that pin.?
?The pin? was a grubby, small Mainz badge which during a summer pre-season training trip in Austria for Tuchel?s then Mainz under-19s team had assumed almost-sanctified status. Alongside four-hour training sessions ? something of a shock for ****agers ? Tuchel also displayed the gift for team bonding that he will require for the England job. One day in Austria, Tuchel insisted the whole squad hire mountain bikes and ride to the summit of the Simmering Alm mountain, where they had lunch and admired the beautiful views before the head coach demonstrated his rhetorical powers, using the moment to tell the team that their goal was to win the league, something never achieved previously by Mainz?s youngsters. Tuchel wanted a ceremony to mark the covenant between team and coach so made do with Kersting?s Mainz badge, which was solemnly wrapped in a Snickerswrapper and buried at the mountain top. ?When we reach our final, we will return to dig up our treasure!? Tuchel told them.
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