Chelsea supervisor Thomas Tuchel has admitted he faces a troublesome problem to revitilise his protection in the summertime.
The Blues will lose Antonio Rudiger and Andreas Christensen, who’re set to hitch Actual Madrid and Barcelona respectively, whereas talks are ongoing to discover a resolution for Cezar Azpilicueta’s future.
There are query marks over Marcos Alonso as properly, with Barcelona main the race to signal him up as he entered his final yr with the membership.
The membership’s state of affairs is compounded by the present UK Authorities sanctions limiting their capability to make concrete choices forward of the summer season window or agree new contracts with current gamers.
“It’s a really massive activity. We tried to exchange with Erling Haaland however he’s now gone!” he joked in regards to the present state of affairs.
“Usually on this time of the season you might be contacting gamers, you discover out and get a sense, you meet and have discussions, dialogue, and suggestions.
“You recognize who’s dedicated, you discover your targets otherwise you signal your individual gamers and go from there to the subsequent step. Proper now we now have an concept however sadly, the fellows don’t know that we now have this concept, nor do the golf equipment.
“We even have to seek out out what the concepts of the brand new homeowners are, which is a key level and from there we go,”
The present state of affairs leaves Tuchel with solely Thiago Silva and Trevoh Chalobah as the one common members of the defensive unit.
The membership has been linked with French stalwart Jules Kounde, who got here near becoming a member of final summer season just for the deal to interrupt down.
