The Blues approached the German coach with a short-term offer before appointing Tuchel as manager.
Ralf Rangnick has revealed he turned down an offer from Chelsea to replace Frank Lampard as interim coach before Thomas Tuchel’s appointment.
The Blues relieved Lampard as manager on January 25 and appointed Tuchel, who had been dismissed at Paris Saint-Germain a month earlier, as his successor on the very next day.
Rangnick, who previously interviewed for the England manager role in 2017, was a reported candidate. And now he has revealed the club sent him an offer to take charge on a temporary basis.
“I said: ‘I would like to come and work with you, but I can’t do it for four months. I’m not an interim coach,” the former Leipzig boss told The Times.
🗣️ "There's a lot of young coaches in Germany that in some way, shape or form have been influenced by Ralf Rangnick."
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Rangnick has spent his entire coaching career in his native Germany, having managed Leipzig, Schalke, Hoffenheim, Hannover, and Stuttgart.
Quizzed on whether he would take on another position in the Premier League, the 62-year-old replied: “It would have to be something special. It depends on the club and whether you want to work with a German coach.”
Rangnick has been out of work since leaving his role as Head of International Relations and Scouting for the Red Bull-owned New York Red Bulls in the MLS and Brazilian club Bragantino last July.
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