Tuchel triumphed in the DFB-Pokal with Borussia Dortmund and then, last season, the Coupe de France, the primary cup competition in that country, and the Coupe de la Ligue. He will be hoping to add an English FA Cup winner’s medal to his collection in his first few months in charge of the Blues, starting with a victory at Oakwell that would move us into the quarter-finals.

Tuchel’s managerial career actually began after Mainz suffered a surprise DFB-Pokal defeat to fourth-tier Lubeck in the summer of 2009. It proved the end for their boss Jorn Andersen, and Tuchel soon stepped into the hotseat for his first taste of management.

In charge of a side punching above their weight in the Bundesliga, Tuchel guided Mainz to the DFB-Pokal quarter-finals once and the last 16 once in his four full seasons in charge.

In 2012/13, they recorded an impressive win at Schalke before throwing away a two-goal lead at home to Freiburg very late on in their last-eight tie, eventually losing after extra-time. Tuchel’s first two forays in the German Cup had been surprisingly ended by regional sides Alemannia Aachen and Holstein Kiel.

The German season traditionally begins with a cup game and so it was for Tuchel at Borussia Dortmund in August 2015. His first appointment was at third-tier Chemnitzer in former East Germany, and, not wanting to start his new job with a shock loss, he understandably opted for a very strong side.

Mats Hummels, Gonzalo Castro and Ilkay Gundogan, players who would form the backbone of his side, all featured and it was two of his star attackers, Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, who found the net in a hard-fought win.

Tuchel continued to select very strong starting XIs in the DFB-Pokal and it paid dividends as Dortmund reached the final, brushing aside Paderborn (7-1), Augsburg (2-0), Stuttgart (3-1) and Hertha Berlin (3-0). Mkhitaryan scored in every round, accounting for five of his 23 goals that season.

Dortmund were back in the capital for the showpiece fixture against Bayern Munich, but it was an agonising third consecutive final defeat for them as they lost 4-3 on penalties at the end of a goalless draw at the Olympiastadion.

Tuchel and Dortmund righted that wrong in 2016/17, reaching the final yet again and this time beating Eintracht Frankfurt 2-1. Christian Pulisic was the man fouled for Aubameyang’s winning penalty.

Tuchel again consistently selected strong teams in the cup run, although a much-changed side needed penalties to defeat Union Berlin of the 2.Bundesliga in the second round. Fourth-tier Eintracht Trier had been seen off 3-0 in round one, Andre Schurrle one of the names on the scoresheet.

After scraping past Hertha Berlin on penalties – Salomon Kalou missing the decisive spot-kick – Dortmund then eased past lower-league Sportfreunde Lotte in the quarters, helped on their way by Pulisic’s opener.

Old foes Bayern awaited in the semi-final at the Allianz Arena. Dortmund led then trailed, before two goals in five second-half minutes turned the tie around and secured a famous victory for Tuchel. Ousmane Dembele netted the winner after Aubameyang’s leveller, with success in the final handing Tuchel the first winner’s medal of his managerial career in his last game in charge of Dortmund.

The depth of his squad meant the German made many more changes for the cups in his two full seasons at Paris Saint-Germain, although in his first experience of the Coupe de France, in a round of 64 tie at fifth-tier GSI Pontivy, Thiago Silva, Dani Alves, Neymar and Kylian Mbappe all started in a 4-0 win.

PSG cruised to the final in 2019 without conceding a goal, but came unstuck against Rennes in the Stade de France showpiece. Having led 2-0 through Alves and Neymar, our recent Champions League opponents fought back to take the game to extra-time and then penalties, keeping their nerve from 12 yards to prevail 6-5.

Tuchel continued to shuffle his pack in the Coupe de France last season, making 11 changes for their round of 64 game and a combined 26 in their next four ties before the final, among them a 5-1 win at Lyon.

Just as in Germany, it was second-time lucky for Tuchel in the main domestic cup competition as PSG edged past Saint-Etienne 1-0 courtesy of a Neymar goal. Thiago Silva captained, as he did a week later as PSG lifted the Coupe de la Ligue – France’s now suspended equivalent of the League Cup – with a penalty shoot-out success over Lyon.

With PSG narrowly losing the Champions League final the following month, those are Tuchel’s most recent triumphs as a manager. Now his target turns to making the FA Cup one of his first in charge of Chelsea.