Tuchel is an intriguing, baggage-heavy choice that makes sense

Acombustible Champions League winner and tactical zealot with authority issues’. The narrative has been all England need isa winner. Well, now you've got one

- Barney Ronay

Well, at least we know now why Lee Carsley spent last week addressing the nation's media in the style of a low-comedy adulterous 1950s sales executive explaining in flustered detail exactly why or indeed why not he might or might not be on the verge of finally leaving his wife.

The news that the Football Association has been engaged in advanced discussion with Thomas Tuchel over the vacant England head coach role does explain the riddle-me-this tone of the interim choice while discussing the immediate future.

Carsley will have known that some kind of moves were afoot at executive level, forced to obfuscate and say nothing. It was in retrospect -an impressive piece of semantic plate-spinning.

Perhaps the next time Carsley has a public platform he could turn his talents to explaining dark matter or the paradox of Trigger's Broom ("Well, hopefully...").

It also seems in keeping with Carsley speak that the prospect of Tuchel is an intriguing, baggage-heavy appointment that might turn out to be a not un-good idea. Tuchel for England actually makes a lot of sense.

Looking back it is understandable that initial reports of an approach last week were dismissed as agent talk, an attempt to shake out a job offer elsewhere.

History suggests the FA is always the mark in the room when it comes to this stuff, the blazered muggins, job offers fluttering from its top pockets.

With Tuchel now on the verge, it seems the current executive are in fact close to an objectively impressive piece of recruitment.

While objectivity has never really had much place around here, Tuchel will represent a significant departure in two obvious ways.

For starters, this would be the first time the FA has appointed a coach who has worked in England and won the European Cup.