Thomas Tuchel is set up to emulate Roy Hodgson and carry on managing until he is 74 - because he loves football also much to retire.

Tuchel admits that information technology has been the hardest flavor of his managerial career but has not lost any of his passion despite Chelsea'south problems and the uncertainty over the club'south buying.

Chelsea boss Tuchel, 48, comes face to face with veteran Watford boss Hodgson on Sunday having met and struck at a friendship with the ex-England manager during a coaches' conference a few years dorsum.

Hodgson has retired once and came back but says he will call it quits one time and for all this time. Simply while most managers express mirth off the idea of going on equally long equally Hodgson, Tuchel says he can picture himself doing the same. Tuchel said: "It can happen to me, besides, but let's see! I'm pretty certain I will nevertheless be in dear with football in 26 years' fourth dimension.

"Who knows? How onetime is he? 74? He does not expect that old and I am happy to encounter him again. We met one time before we played confronting each other here in London to discuss performance. I was autobus of Dortmund at the time and information technology was very impressive considering he was super friendly and a gentleman and very open in sharing his point of view and opinions.

"It is nice to be at the sideline with him and if he is the last game, he deserved total, full credit for his career. It is impressive in this kind of historic period he still has the energy and the commitment and the love for the game." Tuchel has already insisted he will definitely be in accuse of Chelsea next season no thing what happens next as United states of america tycoon Todd Boehly'southward £iv.25m takeover drags on with uncertainty all the same swirling around Stamford Bridge.

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Chelsea won the European Super Cup and also the Club World Cup but have fallen well short in the title race and lost both domestic loving cup finals to Liverpool on penalties. Just Tuchel says that, given the circumstances, information technology has been a challenge they accept come up through. "This makes it perchance to the very top of the list of challenging seasons which we take had," said Tuchel.

"But I don't guess seasons like this because in the moment while you are doing it, information technology ever feels challenging and ever feels demanding. You are trying to adapt to the situation to detect a solution. It is ever challenging and that can exist from results, atmosphere in the dressing room or crazy things like sanctions which nobody could predict or ever think of. Information technology was challenging and demanding, yes, but too a lot of fun and it is a pure pleasure to exist in the eye of it and to guide the team to be office of information technology. It'southward fine. We ever try to arrange and find solutions."

They are in danger of finishing with the worst home record of all the teams in the top 7 and Tuchel is drastic to end the campaign with a home win. Tuchel added: "I think we can practise better. I think at that place is not a lot wrong. It is margins. Only, similar I said, we volition look into the flavour. It is not a moment where we have analysed everything and constitute the answer considering I would have analysed information technology before. We struggle obviously with efficiency, with goalscoring records, with consistency, with determination and position in the box confronting teams that defend deep."

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