No, because leaving would be tantamount to fleeing
He became champions with Bayern and Paris Saint-Germain, Champions League winners with Chelsea FC, and DFB Cup winners with Dortmund. Thomas Tuchel is a top international coach, and of course he and his team can still make up for the five points behind Leverkusen in the Bundesliga. He has to fight now and not bury his head in the sand. A good captain doesn’t disembark when things get stormy.
This also fits Tuchel’s statement after the bankruptcy in Leverkusen: “We will now do the devil to throw in the towel.” Precisely!
Because times of crisis show who a great coach is. The last few weeks have been difficult, but that’s exactly why he and his players will now work twice as hard to get out of the hole. Tuchel knows: nothing is lost. There are still 39 points to be awarded in the Bundesliga and Bayern are in the round of 16 in the Champions League. And Bayern isn’t having a bad season either. Just for comparison: the team scored seven more points after 21 matchdays than last season. At this point you simply have to acknowledge without envy that Leverkusen and coach Xabi Alonso are having an outstanding run.
But one thing is certain: an ambitious man like Tuchel will under no circumstances say goodbye voluntarily in a situation like the current one. He knows full well that if he were to leave now, his departure would be tantamount to an escape. And he can’t want that.