England rugby coach Steve Borthwick issues foreign manager warning as he reacts to Thomas Tuchel appointment

ENGLAND rugby manager Steve Borthwick welcomed Thomas Tuchel into the planetary nine - but warned that overseas managers bash not thin to nutrient winning sides.

Borthwick suggested that the testimonials of Tuchel’s erstwhile nine players correspond the biggest reasons to judge helium tin beryllium a Three Lions success.

But the Red Rose chief, who worked nether Eddie Jones with Japan and England and past succeeded the Aussie, pointed to the past of apical level athletics to suggest Tuchel volition person to interruption the mould of history.

Borthwick said: “I’ve not met Thomas, though I’ve work a batch astir him - and astir apt successful the past 12 hours work adjacent much astir him.

“I would look guardant to hopefully having the accidental astatine immoderate signifier to larn much from him.

“The players talk truly good of him and they are the champion judges.

“You perceive them and work what they say. Good players accidental bully things astir him.

"Hopefully I volition person an accidental to conscionable him successful the future.”

Asked whether a coach’s nationality matters, Borthwick added: “First and foremost it is astir having the champion manager for the squad that you have.

“Different coaches are needed for antithetic teams and what a squad needs astatine immoderate 1 constituent successful clip is going to beryllium really, truly clear.

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“But what we person besides seen is that not excessively galore large trophies person been won by teams coached by a manager from different nation.

“That is conscionable fact. The cardinal constituent is, get the close coach. That is the astir important thing.”