When Manchester United were courting Thomas Tuchel over the summer, it felt likely that a return to English football was on the cards for the former Chelsea boss. At the time – Ineos holding talks with several managers despite Erik ten Hag’s FA Cup triumph at the end of May – you would have got very long odds indeed on Thomas Tuchel taking not the Manchester United job but the England national team gig instead. In one of the most surprising developments of recent times, Tuchel was eventually appointed not as Ten Hag’s replacement but as Gareth Southgate’s. And, while Tuchel did not give much a…