Thomas Tuchel kills off Anthony Barry's Ireland speculation

“Canard, canard, canard. No topic, we can forget about that,” said Tuchel.

STAYING PUT: Thomas Tuchel has crushed any prospect of the FAI snaring his Bayern Munich assistant Anthony Barry by stating ‘forget about that’. Photo by Harry Murphy/Sportsfile

Thomas Tuchel has crushed any prospect of the FAI snaring his Bayern Munich assistant Anthony Barry by stating ‘forget about that’.

The German responded at a scheduled media conference to a midweek report in the UK that Barry was a leading candidate to fill the vacancy created by the departure of Stephen Kenny last month.