Kammala jumla mai zuwa: A shirye-shiryen kakar wasa mai zuwa, Dortmund ta kashe kuɗi da yawa kan sayen 'yan wasa, tare da kashe sama da € 119 miliyan a kan masu shiga goma sha ɗaya, kodayake, an yi wannan da yawa don daidaita ficewar manyan' yan wasa Mats Hummels, İlkay Gündoğan, da Mkhitaryan, waɗanda suka ba da umarnin kuɗi a cikin jimlar € 104 miliyan tsakanin su. Tuchel, duk da haka, ya sami damar maye gurbin su a kan fitowar Ousmane Dembélé, Marc Bartra, da Raphaël Guerreiro, tare da na biyun da ke ganin canjin canji a cikin dabaru da canji, sau da yawa ana tura shi a matsayin sabon dan wasan tsakiya na tsakiya daga hagu. Guerreiro, wanda aka sanya hannu bayan nasarar da ya samu a UEFA Euro 2016, ya nuna manyan kwarewar kwance; halaye da ake ganin ba su da yawa a tsakiyar filin. Wannan canjin matsayin ya ba da damar Guerreiro ya zama mafi girma a ƙarƙashin Tuchel, yayin da ya fito a tsakiyar tsakiya tare da Castro da Weigl, a cikin tsarin da ke da tsaro, kuma ya ba da babbar barazanar kai hari fiye da yadda aka gani. Versarfin Bartra, wanda ya taka leda a matsayin mai tsaron baya na dama da mai tsaron gida, haɗe da saurin barazanar kai hari na 'yan wasa masu yawa Dembélé da Pulisic, sun ba Dortmund damar sauyawa da sauri tsakanin tsarin. Wannan girmamawa a kan saurin ya ga Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang ya zira kwallaye 56 a wasanni 63 na gasar a karkashin Tuchel. Wannan ya ba Dortmund damar komawa kungiyar.
a wasan karshe na DFB-Pokal, inda Tuchel ya lashe babban lambar yabo ta farko a matsayin koci, da kuma kofin farko na kulob din a cikin shekaru biyar, yayin da suka doke Eintracht Frankfurt 2<unk>1, tare da kwallaye daga Dembélé da Aubameyang.