They’re not buying this one bit.
Yesterday German newspaper Kicker reported the news that former Dortmund boss Thomas Tuchel would be taking over at Arsenal at the end of the current season.
Arsenal fans however remain sceptical over the news, given the bad blood that exists between Tuchel, who has also managed Mainz and Augsburg, and their current Head of Recruitment, Sven Mislintat.
Thomas Tuchel will become the next Arsenal manager during the summer, with both him & head of recruitments Sven Mislintat both willing to put their differences aside & work together. [kicker] pic.twitter.com/lzlp6Dq1Ji
— afcstuff (@afcstuff) March 25, 2018
The two clashed repeatedly whilst at the German club and there was apparently an ongoing power struggle over player recruitment and transfer targets with Tuchel reportedly banning Mislintat from the training ground.
Mislintat joined Arsenal in December after a decade at Dortmund, where he is widely credited as having developed their talent pipeline. Unsurprisingly, he was influential in the January signings of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Henrikh Mkhitaryan, players he originally scouted and brought to the German club.
Whether he and Tuchel can rebuild bridges remains to be seen after their personal fallout was enough for Tuchel to resign from the club and take time out of management.
Arsenal fans remain unconvinced.
https://twitter.com/FearTheKirch/status/977662563923255296
Sven Mislintat was completely ostracised at Dortmund for going against Thomas Tuchel. No way he's in talks with Arsenal.
— Phil Costa (@_PhilCosta) March 24, 2018
Sport1 also reporting that Arsenal are the club Thomas Tuchel is talking to. Seems odd given the Sven Mislintat history. #AFC
— Ronan Murphy (@swearimnotpaul) March 24, 2018
— James Massey (@wiregooner) March 25, 2018
That's worrying. Kicker is usually not wrong
— OneArseneWenger (@All_hail_Henry) March 25, 2018
Categorically won’t happen. His fall out at Dortmund was around his lack of ownership over transfers and Sven Mislintat’s influence in picking targets. The very thing Sven has been bought into do at Arsenal is the thing Touchel won’t abide by
— Martyn Wheeler (@Martyn_w) March 25, 2018
— Marcus (@auric_k) March 25, 2018
Hmm…don't see him working under (or for that matter alongside) Mislintat. Their fallout was cataclysmic at Dortmund.
We'll see.
— 22 (OVER S∞∞N) (@vin_unleaded) March 25, 2018
https://twitter.com/ParkingtheBusFC/status/977842767278768128
