A German in charge of the England national team? Who'd have thought it?

There's been a mixed reaction in the British media with some unhappy that the new head coach doesn't come from these shores but there have been plenty of positive reactions from those who have seen Thomas Tuchel's former sides play.

Here's the reaction to Tuchel's new role in Germany.

German newspaper BILD said: "The motherland of football gets a German dad. Madness! Since 1966 - 1966!!!! - the proud football nation has been waiting for a trophy (and sorry, even the World Cup victory only happened because the referee made a mistake). It will soon be 60 years without a title. In that time, we've won the World Cup three times and the European Championship three times. Oops. The despair on the island must be immense if they realise only a German can help now. What a tribute to Tuchel and German football that the English are jumping over their shadows despite the huge rivalry."

Nedum Onuoha
Former Manchester City defender on Planet Premier League

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I think for Tuchel, as is the case with probably most managers, big successful ones that we think of, we don't think of them managing two international teams successfully. We tend to think of them as one.

I think it's interesting that a manager of that calibre is making the choice to manage England at this stage of their career, when potentially further down the road, they could have still been an option for Germany.

I can't see, however Tuchel does in this job from this point, I can’t see him managing Germany, which I would have thought for a German manager would be something which you perceive to be a pinnacle.

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Thomas Hitzlsperger
Former Aston Villa midfielder on Planet Premier League

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I think Thomas Tuchel is very close to Pep [Guardiola] in the way he thinks about football. Both of them, I think they're still friends, they talk to each other regularly.

I do believe Thomas Tuchel is a very good manager, but there have been question marks, of course, with some of the people he dealt with in previous clubs. I think that's the only question mark.

But from a footballing perspective, I do believe that it’s a very, very good appointment.

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If you'd given me one guess at Robert's location, I reckon I'd have had a fair shot of getting it bang on.

BBC Sport has been told Thomas Tuchel thought he might only ever be a club coach - until the idea of having 18 months to deal with knockout games and the chance of winning the World Cup with the group of players that England has was an option too good to turn down.

The fact Tuchel has only signed his contract for 18 months is understood to be driven by the coach himself.

Sources told the BBC Tuchel sees the 18 months as a project and that he has a specific idea of how to attack that period of time.

His knockout record is strong and the fact the World Cup and the qualifiers would have a similar feel plays into the coach's strength of delivering results when it matters.

After the World Cup, there's a period for both parties to sit down and assess what has happened in the tournament and whether they would like to continue.

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Mark Bullingham told BBC Sport's John Murray that Thomas Tuchel "fitted within" the FA's "really tight salary structure" - in the same way Southgate did on a reported £5m-6m a year.

A senior FA source told BBC Sport Tuchel is being paid slightly more than Southgate's most recent deal.

Bullingham said the FA "cannot afford to match the salaries the top clubs pay" but that the talented, young England squad and the structure around it was "something special to offer".

"To be fair, there were quite a few coaches interested who saw the opportunity way beyond financial measures," said Bullingham.

"Thomas absolutely bought into that. This is about far more than money for him and the team."

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There had been conflicting media reports around the process of recruiting Gareth Southgate's successor. The FA was not guiding journalists either way on specific candidates, which meant speculative reports were published without any official comment from the FA.

Thomas Tuchel told the BBC the FA first approached him in late August.

Indeed, there were some reports within the past fortnight that Bullingham and McDermott - who led the recruitment process - had not even spoken to potential candidates such as Howe, Potter and Jurgen Klopp.

When pressed by BBC Sport's Dan Roan at Thursday's news conference at Wembley, Bullingham said "approximately 10 people", including "English candidates", were interviewed.

Earlier in the week - just before Tuchel's FA talks were reported - BBC Sport was told by two sources that the FA did make an approach to Guardiola earlier in the summer. Both Manchester City and the FA declined to comment.

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Sources have told BBC Sport that John McDermott met Thomas Tuchel in Munich before a second meeting with Mark Bullingham.

Bullingham said Tuchel was "always on our target list" and so they made a "proactive approach to speak to him".

Tuchel said the "idea" was presented by McDermott and Bullingham "very fast, [and] confidential" and in a "very straightforward" way.

At that point, the FA was still speaking to other people "in the industry", Bullingham said.

Bullingham added: "He [Tuchel] was outstanding, he gave a really strong presentation, outlined how he felt he could help us win and the chemistry felt really good, and we concluded the partnership quite soon after that."

Sources have told BBC Sport that there was a real sense of keeping it personal between a group of four to limit the chat over messages.

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Tom, Manchester: Re 08:33 - Sorry John, but I think that is disrespectful to Lee Carsley. He struggled to answer questions due to trying to keep Tuchel’s appointment confidential. The press really needs to give Carsley some leeway in this regard.

Andros Townsend
Antalyaspor midfielder on BBC Radio 5 Live's Football Daily

I think his biggest test is, he needs to make some uncomfortable decisions.

Fortunately we're in a situation where we've got so many good players to choose from that 11 just isn't enough. Maybe in the past we've squeezed players into positions they aren't comfortable in just to get them on the pitch but I think he has to make the uncomfortable decision of sticking to his principles if that's a three at the back or four at the back and fitting the players in to fit the way he wants to play rather than changing his philosophy.

He's got to lay down the marker straight away. He's a big name and a proven winner so the players are going to listen to him. If he has to drop a Phil Foden, Phil Foden is going to have sit on the bench and that's the way it's going to be.

These players can see the bigger picture as well which is what they all want to do and that's to win the World Cup.

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Simon Stone
BBC Sport's chief football news reporter

England may have a German coach in Thomas Tuchel but they have a home-grown assistant in Anthony Barry.

It's amazing to think Barry only began his coaching journey with Wigan in 2017, and then it nearly didn't happen.

Apparently, there was some resistance at the Latics when manager Paul Cook said he wanted to bring in another coach following his arrival from Portsmouth, not least because Barry had no coaching experience.

But Cook was insistent and Wigan eventually relented.

Wigan sources say it was evident almost immediately that Barry was an outstanding coach and Cook had made a wise choice.

Barry subsequently moved to Chelsea, which is where he ended up working with Tuchel.

Brighton & Hove Albion

On compatriot Thomas Tuchel being named the new England head coach, Brighton boss Fabian Hurzeler said: "Tuchel has skills to build a successful team in a short time. He is tactically clever."

Brighton & Hove Albion

Brighton boss Fabian Hurzeler says defender Jan Paul van Hecke is available for the trip to Newcastle after recovering from injury. Simon Adingra and Georginio Rutter are also available.

Adam Webster is out along with longer-term absentees Joao Pedro and Matt O'Riley.

BBC 5 Live Breakfast

Football writer Henry Winter spoke to BBC 5 Live Breakfast's Rachel Burden and Chris Warburton on how Thomas Tuchel will utilise the England squad: "3-4-3 he plays a lot, but he's also played a back four and he will look at the England players and work out the best system. But also we've seen, particularly, when he was at PSG when he had [Kylian] Mbappe and Neymar, big players like that, he's not afraid to leave big names out.

"So if a player is underperforming or he feels he can't get all the number 10s in, he will make the right tactical decisions. So, we've got a coach who will go for balance."

BBC 5 Live Breakfast

Football writer Henry Winter spoke to BBC 5 Live Breakfast's Rachel Burden and Chris Warburton on the appointment of Thomas Tuchel as England manager: "I think it's a great appointment but you can admire and appreciate Tuchel coming in, the games are about starters and winners now. It's something that started in Rugby, on the pitch and [Gareth] Southgate's taken it on in terms of football, the team that starts but also you need finishers.

"We've moved on a stage, it's in the dugouts, Southgate has got a momentum going with England but you just need a finisher, a tactically smarter individual, you know a winner, a tactician like Tuchel to get England over the line, he can do that."

Nedum Onuoha
Former Manchester City defender on Planet Premier League

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I don't think Thomas Tuchel will care one bit what anybody says, whether it's going to be on this podcast, whether it's going to be, you know, one of the super pundits of English football saying how he needs to change this and change that and I think that that could be quite refreshing.

Hopefully, it ends up being successful but I think that side of things, I'm sure that for as much as the process has been quite indifferent from the FA, I don't think that should surprise them.

So as a consequence, I think going to be interesting for everyone else to come to terms with it, because when I hear people like yourself and others discuss it, yeah Tuchel does have a lot to say and doesn't really care what you think about it either.

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