Our head coach has previously spoken about how he is taking a calm and rational approach with his players in these early stages of his time at Chelsea, keen to praise or criticise purely on the basis of performance, without putting too much focus on results while getting to know his new team.

Despite that, Tuchel remains unbeaten at the Blues, with four wins and one draw, going into tonight’s Premier League fixture at home against Newcastle United.

However, he insists that he would have no problem mixing up that approach to voice his displeasure in more forceful terms, were he to feel the team’s performance merited it, but it is something he would like to use sparing and only if there was a productive purpose.

‘In a moment when I’m happy I can tell them that I’m happy with the attitude, the performance and the atmosphere in the dressing room,’ he said. ‘There’s no harm in that, I don’t hold it back. Of course, if it’s absolutely necessary, I can be totally emotional, I can also be a shouter, if I have the feeling that this is the minute to do it, and to surprise.

‘If you do it all the time nobody would listen, because it just becomes a habit. The goal is to stay a bit unpredictable, to be sometimes absolutely emotional, to be most of the time reasonable.’

Tuchel believes the most important thing between a team and a coach is trust, though, as it allows them to talk through their issues while working together to find solutions, knowing that any criticism is constructive and aimed at helping them, without having to worry about causing offence or damaging egos.

‘For me it is also important that we build a trust and a relationship that we can rely on,’ continued the German. ‘You don’t punish and insult and shout at people in front of a group, that’s unacceptable, but if we have to point things out clear, I’m a big fan of doing that in front of the whole group.

‘If we have behaviour that does harm to the group, that’s causing trouble for the team on the pitch, we should tell the players individually, but also I believe strongly that the group has to handle things and every person needs to have the personality to swallow some criticism in front of the group. Then no harm is done and we can speak openly.’

He finished by using his response to our last match, the 1-0 FA Cup win over Barnsley, as an example. Despite the victory he felt our performance was lacking, but knew there was more value in discussing the difficulties they encountered calmly as a group than criticising the players too harshly, given the context of the game.

‘We pointed out stuff that we didn’t like against Barnsley, because there were things that we can clearly do better, but we did it in perspective. The perspective is that so far the performances have been very good, we had a lot of changes and the circumstances meant it was not easy to perform at the highest level. So it’s maybe not the moment to be too strict, but to be clear and to be honest.’