Thomas Tuchel, Chelsea manager

CHELSEA CONTINUES TO THE EXPECTATION

Tuchel pronounces on the 'Koundé operation'

Published:24/07/2022 - 17:38h

Updated:24/07/2022 - 17:38h

Jules Koundé's future remains undefined. The Sevilla defender is the object of desire for both Barça and Chelsea, who are fighting for his signing. Now, Thomas Tuchel spoke about his situation

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Jules Koundé is the protagonist 'unexpected' of the market of signings in the last hours. The central is in the half of a new 'chapter' of the 'battle' between the FC Barcelona and Chelsea, those who live a hard fight for doing with the services of the French. In this sense, the future of the defender keeps on being a 'incógnita' capital, since although the londinenses are had to invest a millonada in his signing, the dream of the player would go through the Camp Nou.

Diverse journalists and media have spread informations crossed. While some ensure that the Barça already has closed the agreement so much with the Seville as with the footballer, others sustain that the nervionenses have not kept contacts with the Catalans and only Chelsea has done a concrete offer by Jules, generating uncertainty around the figure of the Parisian.

The true is that his next destination still is uncertain, and this has confirmed it once again the trainer of the 'blues', Thomas Tuchel. The German technician attended to the means in a back press conference to the friendly party that confronted to the 'pensionados' with his rival citadino, the Arsenal. When being questioned on the situation of the defender 'palangana', the trainer showed 'extraneous' to the rumours that circulate and affirmed that "I do not have novelties", feeding like this the interests of inflate them.

However, the Teutonic left clear that need the incorporation of more reinforcements of quality, since the defeat by 4-0 in front of the 'gunners' does not do more than seeding doubts in the performance of his team. "We did an urgent call to achieve players of quality, have two new players of quality (Sterling and Koulibaly), definitely, but like this are not competitive and today has been able to see. We were absolutely defeated by a team that does not play the League of Champions this season", what could be taken like a 'dart' for the club in order to close the traspaso of Koundé.

The Barça prepares an offer

In the meantime, in Can Barça prepare a new offer by the central, as it has informed the journalist Fabrizio Romano. The proposal of the Catalans would not equalise the figure of 55 million pounds offered by Chelsea to the Seville, since the structure would be different. Of the same way, any player culé would be included in the deal, clearing like this the rumours on Memphis and Dest. Finally, from the Sánchez-Pizjuán sustain that only they have kept conversations with the 'blues', by what to the 'serial' follow him writing more 'episodes'.

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