With many players returning from loans and a bloated workforce, Tuchel hopes that solutions will be found.
Thomas Tuchel gives everyone the chance to impress at Chelsea but, with Tammy Abraham or Danny Drinkwater in transfer rumors and confined to a replacement role, concedes some members of his squad “may want to leave” .
The Blues were top-four in the Premier League and clinched the Champions League last season, with a German tactician arriving on the bench mid-season but having an immediate impact.
Only, Tuchel has resumed preparation for next season with a bloated workforce because of many loan returns and hopes that solutions will be found before August 31 so as not to leave players behind.
“I’ve never had this before”, said said the former PSG coach on the Chelsea site.
“It was new, I wasn’t afraid of it, but I was curious to see what the mentality was like because remember, some of them leave their families behind, some want to stay in their loan clubs. and do not have this possibility. ”
“Some of them have already done a couple of pre-seasons here. Some of them absolutely want to look for that chance to stay, some maybe want to leave. They’re humans, they’re not robots. and that is why we have to accept that it is not the easiest situation for them too. ”
“But what I have experienced every day is quite the opposite, it is a very positive, hardworking, eager to learn group, hungry in every training session and ready to go.”
“It’s such a great mix with the five or six guys who were with us here over the last six months. I’m absolutely happy because it’s so much easier than I thought, it’s so easy and so nice to be the coach. There are possibilities for all of us and this group deserves our full attention, and they got it. ”
“I don’t judge where they’re from or what their story is, or what they earn or what their status is. I’m in charge of this group so they get my 100% of my attention. I give it all, they give it back to me, they make me smile, I give more, it makes them smile, they give more. ”
“You try every year to create a certain atmosphere where everyone is happy to come, everyone feels valued, everyone feels confident but at the same time everyone knows what is expected of them and then you have to live up to your talent. ”
“These guys are full of talent and now it’s up to us to push them to their highest level possible. Then we’ll decide if the timing is good enough for us, does that help us, is it better that the player is either loaned or sold. This is the last step in this give-and-take. ”
A number of starts have already been recorded at Stamford Bridge. Among those who have left are Fikayo Tomori and Olivier Giroud, both of whom have joined AC Milan.
