The new England manager, announcing his first squad in the job, had no hesitation in letting Kane retain the captaincy, but revealed he will speak with the 31-year-old – who he worked with at Bayern Munich – about how to maximise his output.
In Germany, he has been criticised for not scoring enough against tougher opponents and had his work rate questioned.
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Tuchel plays with an aggressive high press that requires forwards to work exceptionally hard to pressure opponents on the ball.
“That is what he does for years at the highest level. This is unique and this is what he built his career on. We have the highest expectations when we bring him in. He is our captain. Highest expectations means leadership, leadership in the group.
“He has to live up to the highest level but I know Harry now as a top, top professional who does what is asked of him and he does it now with Bayern Munich. They play with a very high press – they almost man-mark.”
“I saw him here for England dropping deeper and deeper in his game and this is maybe not exactly what we want with Harry,” he explained.
Kane and Tuchel together at Bayern (Photo: Getty)“Dropping as a No 10, turning and shooting from range and delivering from outside the box is not a problem but then we need to make sure that around him is enough speed and high position to take advantage of the space.”
Tuchel revealed Henderson, who will be 36 by the time the World Cup begins, “will be a big part” of the “puzzle” building his squad, talking up his off-the-pitch qualities and how he will help the younger players.
Tuchel said he had opted for Tottenham’s Dominic Solanke ahead of Ivan Toney, but that he would not rule out picking a player playing in the Saudi Pro League.
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“A very close decision but a sporting decision,” Tuchel insisted. “It had nothing to do with the fact he plays in Saudi Arabia or that we don’t trust the level of the league there.”
“You have a very powerful, emotion and meaningful national anthem, and I could not be more proud to be on the sideline and be in charge of the English national team,” he said. “It means everything. It means a lot to me, I can assure you. But I can feel because it is that meaningful and it is that emotional and it is so powerful the national anthem that I have to earn my right to sing it.
“I will earn it with results, with building a group, with doing my job properly and by creating a feeling where maybe even you guys say at some point, ‘Now it’s time that you sing it, it feels like you proper earn it and you’re a proper English guy now!’”
Tuchel’s track record
Kane is England’s record goal-scorer, with 69 in 103 caps, and has been captain of his country for nearly seven years. Removing that status would have been a bold and unnecessarily divisive move.
But Tuchel cannot merely give Kane the armband, wind him up and let him go. The centre-forward’s form at major tournaments has been the subject of significant scrutiny – and unlocking his best form will be high on the former Chelsea manager’s list of priorities.
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The secret to how Tuchel will approach this problem can be found in his CV. Few managers have such an impressive list of previous appointments: Borussia Dortmund, PSG, Chelsea and Bayern Munich before replacing Gareth Southgate.
“The attacking system is a framework that enables individuality to function,” Tuchel once said to describe his coaching.
However, the areas that Tuchel tends to focus on are the No 10 positions, preferring to manufacture a situation where he can have two talented players operating in that space, in combination with a central striker and wide players.
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But in the German manager’s last days at Bayern he did bemoan his side’s struggles to get the ball to Kane.
“I have very rarely, perhaps never before, seen such a discrepancy between performances in training and matches, the way he scores, the way he leads the team, the way his team wins. It’s unbelievable. It’s absolutely world-class.”
Whether they set up in 3-4-2-1, 4-3-3 or 4-2-3-1, you would expect to see England in possession with Jude Bellingham and either Cole Palmer, Phil Foden or even Declan Rice as twin creative players, pulling the strings for England’s attack.
His trademark, throughout his career, has been to upgrade players through coaching. When he took over from Jurgen Klopp at Dortmund, they had 10 per cent more possession and scored almost twice as many goals in his first season there.
In every season since taking the Dortmund job, his team have been first or second in their respective leagues for pressing and possession. That requires a pragmatic approach to “his system”, as well as an ability to work quickly with players.
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