On one person he would love for England
"Rodri...but not injured", Tuchel joked.
He then got serious when asked to explain his post-match comments about adjusting expectations.
Tuchel added: "Maybe we need to get our expectations right. For example, they [Senegal] arrived with the objective to win and to make history, we arrived with the objective of winning.
"Would we have had the same joy as them, if we won? I don't think so, I include myself.
"I would have been positive in my feedback, I wouldn't have screamed, I wouldn't have put my fist on the boxes to make noises in the dressing room and they did all this.
"You felt more joy in their game than you felt in ours, so it made me question do we hold ourselves back."
"We set the standards and demands high, but at a point, do we not need to accept the quality on the other side?
"Celebrate the goals more, be more happy, and also create an environment where the players feel they can express that joy more lively.
"Or is it just not in us? Is it a way of lifestyle connected to different cultures?
"I don't have the answers, but I think that it's important from camp to camp to get the expectations right from the Andorra match, the Senegal match, in the next international window, then it becomes easier to express our joy."
On Bellingham's best position
On what is Bellingham's best position: "That is a question that applies to many of our players.
"From outside, I thought for many years he could be a six and an eight. Then he had an amazing season as a false nine in Real Madrid. where he scored and scored and created chances.
"I see still that hunger - in our first match against Albania, his diving header in the box, the hunger to go with his body in front of the defender, to dive into this ball without any fear.
It just shows me the determination he has to be on the scoreboard, to have his name there. It's a good thing that I see.
"I see what I normally only see in strikers.
"I think now he is more a ten or eight than a six, eight - maybe a 10!
"I struggle to see that [that England would be better without Bellingham]. I think it has to be the other way around, how we can see the best version of him, the best acceptance, that people understand what he is bringing to us, that he is bringing a certain edge.
"But I see sometimes that it can create mixed emotions.
"I see this with my parents, with my mum, that she cannot see the nice, well-educated and well-behaved guy that I see.
"If he smiles, he wins everyone [over], but sometimes you see the hunger and the rage and the fire.
"It can come out in a way that can be a bit repulsive for example, for my mother when she sits in front of the TV. I see that.
"But in general, we are very happy to have him, he's a special boy."
Bellingham 'brings an edge'
Tuchel was asked if Jude Bellingham is key to England's success: "That's basically how I feel. He has a certain something and brings an edge. It's needed if we want to achieve big things.
"It needs to be channelled towards the opponent and towards our goal, and not to intimidate team-mates or be aggressive towards team-mates of opponents.
"He has the fire - I don't want to dim this down, he should play with this kind of fire, that's his strength.
"But the fire comes with some attributes that can intimidate you, maybe even if you are a team-mate. Sometimes you see the explosion towards referees and the anger.
"If you can channel it in the right way, then we can help him with this, then he has the certain something we need.
"That edge is hard to find."
Is Bellingham difficult to manage?
"No, not at all. He's a nice kid, very open, very intelligent."
Tuchel: 'I will always be tempted to stay'
England boss Thomas Tuchel on his future after the World Cup and whether he might stay on for Euro 2028: "I like the question after yesterday, really!
"I will always be tempted to stay because I love the group and I love the opportunity, it's an honour to be English head coach.
"I know a big tournament is coming up in England, and I will always be tempted. I can tell you that even after the disappointing result yesterday.”
When asked if he would stay even if England don’t win the World Cup, he said: “If you ask me today, yes. I feel that I’m in the right place and enjoy where I am.
“I love the new challenge. I wanted a new challenge and a new environment. I feel the support, the trust and respect of the people in the federation.
“I love the group of players and want to push them. It just feels right, and it’s a clear yes from my side."
"[I love] the chance to be close to the Premier League, but also to update myself and to have input from various people, from people from rugby, from the army, from the Royal Air Force, how to build teams and rhythm, reflect on it, see a different side of high level football.
"To have a chance to pick a squad without the transfer period. It's the right challenge for me at the moment, it is a challenge, it is a big challenge, that's absolutely clear that it's a big challenge, but I love it."
On what he does to relax away from football: "You try to have routines, morning breath work, meditation. I meet friends, have coffee with friends, and chit-chat about nothing.
"I can spend hours in bookstores. I can endlessly spend time looking at real estate, interior design and architecture."
'Liverpool and Arsenal will have huge advantage'
Tuchel discussed whether the Club World Cup will hamper the real thing next summer, with several of his Chelsea players involved.
On a lag effect: "I would love to say next June that it will be June for everyone, and everyone will have had long seasons.
"I've just learnt now that we, England, don't have a good record in the June friendlies, before tournaments and in qualifying matches, and sadly we added one yesterday to the negative record.
"The schedule becomes very, very competitive, they go from the Euros to the Club World Cup, and then the World Cup.
"There's one season when the national break has holidays.
"On the other hand, I think teams like Liverpool, Arsenal, and Newcastle will have a huge advantage in next season's Premier League title race to have this time now, to have a halfway decent pre-season in the plan and build-up of the players' physical performances, because the players can rest now."
"There were not enough English players in the Champions League semi-finals this year, not even in the quarter-finals.
"We also want to have more English players at the end of these European competitions to prove their quality in these European matches because it helps us then this experience to build a strong team."
'Club World Cup is too long'
On the expanded Club World Cup: "It's very different [from when I won it with Chelsea in 2022, I think we had one or two matches.
"I think it's a long format. I can understand the excitement if I was a little boy to watch Bayern Munich, and Manchester City vs Juventus."
"But I feel it is too long, the amount of time the players will spend in the USA and hotel rooms, the travel feels heavy on their shoulders.
"Playing such a long tournament after such a long competitive season gives me a bit of goosebumps.
"But I am a little biased. I understand that once it starts, players will get excited and get ambitious to add another trophy. But it's a long time for the players to be constantly switched on."
Tuchel on the U21s
Tuchel on the U21 Euros: "It is the same time [that he is over in America], but if Lee makes it to the final, then we will be sure to be there."
Does Tucjel have a question: "No, no, no, I send him my regards and my best wishes. I know his line-up for tomorrow, and I know the structure of his formation.
"But I know the stress from injuries and late pull-outs because of the Club World Cup, so I hope spirits are up and he pulls his magic and builds a strong group, so send him my best regards, and my best wishes, so no question from me, he has a game tomorrow."
'Next week we will go to America'
On World Cup preparation this summer: "That's a kind of balance that you have to get used to because as a club manager, you look two weeks ahead, and then you go every three days, that's the kind of rhythm and you push everyone to have the longest season possible to reach finals.
"You don't look too much ahead to get distracted.
"So, that means, we go now, first we quality, and then we look at camps then we think about the World Cup, which is not possible from a logistics point of view.
"You have to think about hotels and base camps now in terms of reserving them and making sure that we have the best possible environment to be successful.
"That means that next week we will go to America to look at clubs, training facilities around the Club World Cup.
"Feel and observe what it's like for European teams to play at 3 o'clock in Miami.
"Drinks, cooling systems, all these things.
"As a club coach, I don't feel comfortable doing all this while we are still in the qualification process, but it's necessary; the focus will be right to make sure we have the qualification right."
Why not give more youngsters chance in friendlies?
Great question from a talkSPORT caller!
Tuchel: "Yeah, fair enough, especially after yesterday, fair enough, good question.
"I am aware that Kyle Walker got a lot of criticism for his performance yesterday. I'm sure that we are all aware he did not have his best day.
"Trent [Alexander-Arnold] was also out of rhythm later in the week, so it was also about alternatives, who can be with us.
"We decided to give, for example, Tino Livramento, the chance to play his last tournament for the Under-21, which is a high valuable tournament for us to see him there in a leadership role, taking responsibility, knowing that it is on his shoulders.
"We didn't make it easy with the nomination. I can see the question - We thought about Adam Wharton, but he had a concussion, issue around the final.
"We had long discussions with Lee Carsley and we decided in this case [Livramento] to play the U21s, because it's his last chance for him to be nominated for the U21s, from September he has to fight his way into our team.
"So these were the decisions, I think we did a lot of changes yesterday - If you look at the line-up from Senegal, they played with their strongest, most competitive team possible who fought for the places against [the Republic of] Ireland, and we decided in the end to put a very serious team with a lot of experience and was also a success from the first camp, and against Andorra.
"Sending Jordan Henderson home at the moment is not an option, because he brings the best out of other players, he has a huge impact into the group."
"Kyle deserved to be in because of what he did in the last camp."
Tuchel on if he is aware of negative fan reaction on Henderson inclusion
"I am, until now, not aware of it, to be honest.
"We were convinced about this move to bring him back, and since I met him in person and since I saw him and observed him in camp, I am more convinced than ever that he is a very important addition to this group.
"Especially when we talk about connections, especially when we talk about setting standards and keeping the group up to the standards.
"He is at the moment the man that I don't want to miss."
Describing what Henderson brings to the squad, Tuchel remarked: "He is still lean, he is still fit.
"He is still ready to push on a level that matches international level. I am convinced he is still ambitious.
"He pushes the group, he takes care of training, he takes care of the attitude, he brings actually players together.
"So we see different better versions of players when Jordan is in camp than if he is not in camp, and that is all I can say."
On Trent Alexander-Arnold
The form of Alexander-Arnold, who didn't play a minute yesterday, should he flourish at Real Madrid but not suit Tuchel's England.
"That would be a hard choice, then it depends completely on us, if we have a similar structure and similar players, because we desperately want to have him in the team.
"He gives us something unique and can make connections with teammates and boost chemistry, then we will try to use him.
"If he gives us something unique, then we will make sure that he has his place - But that applies to any player.
"If not, then we will always value the team more than individual quality, in the end, at international level, it's so important that we arrive with the right team and that everyone in the team knows before, first that we have to quality, that everyone knows their role, why he is there, and what they have to give to the group and from there we go."
'The team will always come first'
Pearce: Does the individual have to step back for the fluidity of the team?
Tuchel told talkSPORT: "Gareth [Southgate] tried it, and Lee [Carsley] tried to bring the talent together and the quality.
"I am trying now at the moment, and still we feel we are lacking the enthusiasm and joy consistently on the international level.
"I have to underline that, the individual has to take a step back for the greater good.
"It's on us to find the right mixture 100 percent, the right chemistry in the team, the right connections, that they enjoy to play with each other - we haven't done this yet.
"The first camp was good, the second camp was a bit of a mixture. Not a disaster, but a mixture if we are looking at it honestly.
"In November, it gets more competitive and more straightforward in the squad selection because we enter a World Cup year."
Tuchel: 'Kane is our captain and a goal scorer'
Tuchel told Durham: "I'm not even sure that he [Harry Kane] can't do it [press from the front], because he did it with Bayern Munich almost in a one-on-one in the opponent's half.
"Harry, very committed to everything what we did - maybe the formation yesterday, and the courage within the formation, the high press was not there.
"Yesterday, we needed for the high press we lacked the courage of pushing with the wingers higher, and then pushing through the back four to push the fullbacks through when the winger goes, the fullback follows and we end up in a 3-on-3 in the backline.
"Maybe we got a little bit better in the half-time when we encouraged everyone to do so.
"At the moment, [Kane] is our captain and a goal-scorer. I think he's scored four goals in four matches since I'm on the job, and I think we can expect to press with him high, but then we need to be brave from behind."
Pearce: England don't play high intensity often enough
Tuchel replied: "I agree 100 per cent!
"Everything to play with high energy, but we don't see it often enough on the international level is my observation.
"That's exactly the point, and exactly what we focus on, basically how we are on the job, 'how can we inject this massively'.
"Maybe you know [Pearce] better than me, I think it's massively about connections with the team, it generates a genuine joy to play together that we find easily every time we come to camp, that it's not every time a new start.
"So, it was a little bit of a false new start that was brought on by me, the coaching staff, because we brought on new players, invited new players and tried new formations.
"Maybe I have to take this responsibility, but we are looking deeply into exactly that - 'How can we transfer this joy that the guys have, and the quality, into the joy to express themselves on the field.
"I agree with you 100 per cent, I enjoyed the energy from the bench, the three substitutions after 58/60 minutes, and the two substitutions after 70 minutes made me directly connect with the team on your level, because I thought 'oh, what's happening now'.
"We suddenly have courage, we are half open in open body positions, we turn, we try to play upfront, we create deliveries, so it was a completely different dynamic."
Tuchel on the transition from club football
Tuchel told talkSPORT: "It's not so easy because now I have to digest, now I have maybe a better insight.
"I already have a better idea of where to go next, but like you said, it's not the players coming in, in the next hour, and I can direct it towards them, and also give them the outlook and perspective of this is where we are going from now.
"This is very, very different - I think, and I'm still convinced, that the first camp was a big success, everything that we did, and started building.
"We did some experiments in the second camp, not everything was bad - there were some good spells in it during this week.
"But, of course, the two games were not good enough.
"It's a hard learning, and a difficult learning, but it brings clarity every match that we play together, everything that we try brings clarit,y and it will help us to mould the team and will help us to find solutions."
Tuchel analyses Senegal defeat
Thomas Tuchel joined talkSPORT's England correspondent Faye Carruthers post-match following the 3-1 defeat to Senegal.
Asked what he's learnt since that interview, Tuchel added: "New insights - not everything I can tell from the public.
"If I don't like it after a defeat, it has to be put into context, so we tried 21 players in 72 hours, we faced a very strong opponent who were ready to make history, who played the opportunity to win the friendly in June with more hunger than us.
"I think they had a clear target, I know from the players that I know from Senegal that they had a clear target to make history; to beat England for the first time, they had something bigger than just a friendly, and this is how they acted.
"I'm not saying that we had the wrong attitude.
"I felt us committed, I felt us focused and well-prepared and ready for the same match, and still, you could see that we lacked connections on the pitch.
"You could see that we lacked connections between the players in terms of distances, and combinations with each other.
"But also in terms of communication, and in terms of joy in major parts of the match. It got better in the second-half, and it got better after 60 minutes, but that's basically the main points."
Tuchel is here
England boss Thomas Tuchel has joined Adrian Durham and Stuart Pearce live now - which you can watch along above!
"Not so good, was a short night, after the match yesterday", was Tuchel's first verdict.
"I'm a little shocked I'm in the picture, I thought you did radio and it didn't matter how I looked..." the England manager joked.
Tuchel added: "Disappointed, of course, was a short night as always, we hate to lose, and I was not happy with the performance.
"The way we lost, we lost at home, the fact that we lost didn't make me sleep good, it was a short night, now that we had a long debrief with the staff after the second camp.
"Now it gets better step by step because once you do the debrief and dig into little clips and dig deeper, analyse what happened within the camp, then straight away comes the step where you go towards solutions, and this helps me process it.
"But right now it's not digested yet!"
Nwaneri reveals Ballon d’Or aim and teammates aren’t shocked
CJ Egan-Riley, one of Ethan Nwaneri's England Under-21 teammates, believes there's no reason why the Arsenal teenager can't achieve his goal.
In fact, Egan-Riley 'wouldn't really be surprised' if Nwaneri becomes the first Englishman since Michael Owen in 2001 to win football's greatest individual prize.
"The last camp that we came on, for me, he was the best player," Egan-Riley told talkSPORT.
"From the first day when I saw him in training, I was like, 'He's special'.
"Of course, there' so, so many good players there, but considering he's just turned 18 and it's an under-21s tournament and he's 18, so he can probably play in the next two of these.
"Which is crazy to me, because for most of us here, this would probably be our last chance to play in the Under-21s.
"So just considering his age and how mature he is for his age and his football brain and just how good he is with the football at his feet and how hard we works, I have no doubt he could go to the very top."
More from O’Hara
He added: "We've got to perform to get there [World Cup 2026], and you've got to perform when you get there as well.
"But you've got to have fresh, young players, vibrant, who want to play for England, know what it's about.
And I saw tonight with some old heads who really, truthfully, haven't got the legs anymore."
It was a view shared by Cundy, who went on to criticise Walker for his role in Senegal's equaliser through Crystal Palace winger Ismaila Sarr.
He remarked: "That's his job, between now and the World Cup, to get the decisions right, whether it be the squad players and his first XI.
"Today was just a friendly, and the reason he made ten changes was to look at other players. I get why he's done that.
"It wasn't his best side put out. It wasn't his strongest XI. There were some strange decisions.
"Playing Reece James at left-back. Don't fully grasp [why], but he'll learn.
"Kyle Walker, their equaliser, Kyle Walker's gone to sleep and that Kyle Walker that I saw winning major honours for Manchester City, he don't sleep in those situations. He reads that.
"He's too experienced, too good a right-back, and today he got done. And that cost us.
"That was the goal that got them back into it. Deserved, by the way."
Walk out
Kyle Walker and Jordan Henderson should be nowhere near the England squad.
That's the view of ex-Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Jamie O'Hara, who has had his say on the Three Lions following Tuesday night's shock 3-1 defeat to Senegal at the City Ground.
The pair boast a combined 180 England caps, but a combined age of 69, and their form has taken a dip in the last 18 months.
Manchester City shipped out Walker to AC Milan for the second half of the 2024/25 season, while Henderson is currently on the books at Ajax following a spell in Saudi Arabia with Al Ettifaq.
Speaking on talkSPORT Drive, former Chelsea defender Jason Cundy insisted that England are currently a level below World Cup rivals such as Argentina, France and Spain, stating Tuchel has 'a year to get this right.'
His comments led O'Hara to say: "I think he needs to bin some of the old heads.
"I think he needs to accept that this is a new era of new, fresh, young players.
"Morgan Gibbs-White, [Eberechi] Eze, Cole Palmer, these players are the future of England now.
"And I think you've got to make some big decisions going into this World Cup next year and go, 'Kyle Walker, thank you mate, It's time to move on.'
"There's certain players… 'Jordan Henderson, sorry, it's time to move on.'"
Nu beginnings
talkSPORT understands Darwin Nunez is likely to leave Liverpool this summer.
It's thought the club are seeking north of €70million (£59m), with the 25-year-old drawing interest from Saudi Arabia.
Al-Hilal contacted Liverpool on Monday to ask for the conditions of a deal.
Al-Nassr had a €70m bid rejected in January, and Liverpool are using this number as a yardstick for valuation.
FSG's CEO of Football, Michael Edwards, and sporting director Richard Hughes decided not to sell Nunez mid-season, believing the Uruguay international would be better served helping Liverpool win the Premier League title.
Liverpool paid a club-record £85m for Nunez when he joined from Benfica in June 2022. Recouping a large proportion of this figure is a priority, especially with Liverpool looking to add another striker this summer.
talkSPORT understands Liverpool have also come to their valuation based on Nunez's record as a Liverpool starter.
In 49 starts, Nunez has scored 25 goals and provided 13 assists. That's essentially a goal every two games and an assist every four.
Liverpool plan to stick to their €70m+ valuation even with a non-Saudi bidder.
Nunez has not closed the door on a move to the Saudi Pro League, and dealmakers feel a decisive bid early in the window could prove successful, especially knowing European clubs may not match Liverpool’s asking price.
Whether or not that comes from Al-Hilal, Al-Nassr again, or another Saudi club is still under discussion. Hilal's enquiry was more framed around a last-ditch bid to find a striker before the Club World Cup, having failed to land Victor Osimhen and was one of several enquiries made on a frantic June 10 deadline day.
However, Nunez is understood to be interested in a move to either Italy or Spain.
talkSPORT understands that Atletico Madrid hold a genuine interest.
Liverpool are already assessing options to replace Nunez internally. Alexander Isak, Hugo Ekitike, Benjamin Sesko and Joao Pedro are among the names considered.
