Thomas Tuchel has been asked almost every week about the contract situations involving some of his top players, and finally he has a good answer.
Wheras before he we always quite honest in saying he just didn’t know their intentions, now he has a much cleaner excuse: the club can’t enter any transfer or contract talks while the owner is sanctioned. So that’s that.
His answer to the questions about Antonio Rudiger today did exactly that, and we could hear it a few more times in the weeks to come.
You can see the Chelsea boss speaking in the clip embedded here:
