Thomas Tuchel has been a rock in recent weeks for Chelsea, when they needed a leader to stand up and answer the hard questions and face the uncertain future of the club as a whole. He has done so time and again, only backing up his results on the pitch with his manner off of it.
It’d be hard to argue that the Blues boss hasn’t been successful in his spell of just over one-year at Stamford Bridge, winning the Champions League against all odds just months after his appointment. He then went on to add a UEFA Super Cup and a Club World Cup to his cabinet along the way.
That is all without mentioning that he guided his side to last year’s FA Cup final, this season’s Carabao Cup final as well as booking his current side into the FA Cup semi-final and Champions League quarter-final for this campaign. The German coach has transformed the club post-transfer ban and has made the biggest of cup ties a formality at this point.