LONDON —
Chelsea manager
Thomas Tuchel expects the London team to face a period of “rebuilding”
following the London club’s planned sale.
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The Blues are
blocked from making new signings or securing existing players to new deals
under the strict terms of the temporary British government license.
Owner Roman
Abramovich put
Chelsea on the market in early March, just days before he was
sanctioned by the government following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
After a lengthy
bidding process, a consortium led by by LA Dodgers co-owner
Todd Boehly has won
the battle to buy the Premier League club in a $5.2 billion deal.
The government,
however, have yet to grant a license to complete the sale — the final step of
the purchase process — amid concerns over Abramovich’s links to Russian
president Vladimir Putin.
Chelsea will lose
Antonio Rudiger to
Real Madrid and Andreas Christensen to Barcelona on free
transfers at the end of the season and there is no certainty over their
replacements at Stamford Bridge.
Tuchel’s team are
third in the
Premier League ahead of their penultimate game of the season at
home to Leicester on Thursday, but are 19 points adrift of second-placed
Liverpool and 20 behind leaders Manchester City.
“You ask many
times if we have a delay in approaching players and making plans; of course, a
huge delay,” Tuchel told a pre-match news conference on Wednesday.
“We are affected
by it, players are going out. We are rebuilding, not improving the squad. This
is always challenging but we are up for the challenge.”
The German, who
saw Chelsea suffer an agonizing penalty shoot-out loss to Liverpool in the FA
Cup final at Wembley last weekend, added: “I don’t know where we are from day
one.”
“What I can
promise is that I will be here — if I can promise that. I will be here with
full energy and positive energy.”
“It
will be very challenging to make up for the disadvantage, given the situation
of the other two teams, City and
Liverpool, who are already improving the squad
and set one benchmark after the other in all aspects of the game.”
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