Lee Carsley gives Thomas Tuchel stunning report card but leaves new England boss with Harry Kane conundrum

Earlier than heading benefit to the England Below-21s, Lee Carsley will provide Thomas Tuchel with a ‘very detailed handover’, in accordance with the FA.

It desires to be a rotund dossier, an very perfect trying attachment to an email, detailing a deepening of the skills pool with eight debut-makers in Carsley’s six video games as period in-between, a solid squad spirit, even a left-footed left-benefit in Lewis Corridor and additionally the enduring significance of Harry Kane.

“I will set apart collectively a report,” Carsley confirmed after the 5-0 catch over the Republic of Eire that lifted England benefit to League A of the Countries League.

“I will hopefully scramble and meet Thomas and present what we accept as true with and what we’ve chanced on. I peek ahead to assembly him in the following few weeks.

“The job for us as an Under-21 staff is to support the senior manager as much as we can, find out what he needs and how we can help.”

He has certainly helped Tuchel hugely.

The Kane section of Carsley’s document should be fascinating. Tuchel hardly needs any additional information about Kane, having taken him to Bayern Munich, but Carsley’s report will surely remind him of the captain’s calibre and ‘leadership qualities’.

At 31, and lacking a snap of pace, Kane can be questioned and questioned but he comes up with answers. He comes up with goals.

It is hard to see how anyone will ever catch Kane’s England goalscoring tally, currently 69 after 103 appearances, and he could possibly have another 20 games left in him. Tuchel will surely keep him as captain and No.9 in England’s 2026 World Cup campaign.

Kane’s influence and mobility was criticised at Euro 24 but he still finished joint top scorer.

Kane’s right to a starting place was plunged into doubt when Ollie Watkins began ahead of him in Athens last Thursday and scored within seven minutes against Greece.

The former Tottenham marksman has been used shrewdly by Carsley, playing only one game per international break, keeping him fresh. He remains the main man.

The topic with Kane has partly been spherical his insistence on losing deep, straying into jabber the put Jude Bellingham change into once doing his scheming, and then unable to re-join the attack fast sufficient.

In a annoying first half of low on incident and tips, Kane dropped deep all all over again and change into once closed down by Jayson Molumby. In the 27th minute, Kane restful the ball but chanced on there had been 9 outfield gamers between him and Caoimhin Kelleher.

Right here is the conundrum with Kane. He has an distinctive cross on him, as he demonstrated early in the 2d half of when releasing Bellingham to catch the penalty that Kane himself clinically converted.

Carsley enthused about Kane’s “quality, by strategy of the cross he made to Jude, a good cross,” and made the telling level that Kane fundamental to have the staunch suppose spherical, in general lope.

“We complemented him successfully with the runs Jude made, and the explosiveness of the gamers outdoors him,” Carsley said.

This change into once key. Kane desires lope and mobility spherical him, and he had that with Noni Madueke and Anthony Gordon, then Morgan Rogers and Jarrod Bowen. There might be Bukayo Saka to strategy benefit on the staunch and Phil Foden and Cole Palmer to understudy Bellingham at No.10.

Carsley will want loads of jabber in his report to checklist England’s alternate choices. “The following squad might well be a jabber to choose,” Carsley said.

Gordon struck England’s 2d, ending off some appropriate capacity play by his Newcastle United teammate Tino Livramento – and some chaotic Irish defending.

Gordon did not have the top of first halves but has largely proven below Carsley the steadiness and probability he gives England on the left. Madueke has built on his appropriate season at Chelsea with his performances on the staunch.

Carsley can mutter Tuchel that the plump-benefit image looks extra optimistic after Corridor’s first start at left-benefit. He change into once mute, dealing successfully with the few Irish surges that came his capacity, and fleet to toughen attack.

Tuchel is conscious of all about him anyway, having given Corridor his Chelsea debut in 2022. With Livramento’s assured 2d-half of unveiling in particular, staunch-benefit is practically ridiculously over-stocked with Reece James and Trent Alexander-Arnold to return.

In midfield, Conor Gallagher has developed into grand extra of a consistent, ball-worthwhile, ball-the utilization of force at Atletico Madrid, and reacted successfully to flip in Marc Guehi’s flick-on of a Madueke corner to originate it 3-0.

The Three Lions had been rampant, and Bowen made it 4-0 with his first touch.

Like minded to underline to Tuchel the wealth of skills, Carsley can report that Taylor Harwood-Bellis came on for his senior debut and promptly headed in Bellingham’s majestic horrible.

Carsley’s prolonged report will not merely be Mountainous Expectations, there might well be a splash of Bleak Home in there, too.

He can tell Tuchel about the media scrutiny. He can reflect on what England HQ can be like in the bad times.

“I’m still gutted about the Greek game at home,” Carsley said. “It’s a lonely place in the Wembley dug-out when you’re losing.”

If that was a painful experience for the interim, and largely self-inflicted by his decision to play too many No.10s and no No.9s, Carsley at least has turned the group around and got England promoted.

Thanks to Carsley, Tuchel can focus on the World Cup when he starts as head coach on January 1.

“It’s a job that deserves an elite coach with a music report of worthwhile,” Carsley said.

“And Thomas has that.”

And will soon have a long document landing in his inbox.