There was a time not so long ago when Thomas Tuchel needed to get away. A ‘restart’, he called it.
We are going back to October 2022, a month after his sacking at Chelsea collided with the end of his marriage, and tornadoes were tearing through his mind. His solution was to board a flight to India.
For three weeks he stayed on the Malabar coast, immersed in the tropical beauty of Kerala at the Sitaram Beach Retreat.
What followed was a cleanse almost as intense as the man himself.