Thomas Tuchel has admitted that he did not approve of Romelu Lukaku publicly stating that he turned into 'not glad with the situation' at Chelsea.
Lukaku created headlines while an interview carried out several months ago with Sky Sports Italia circulated on Thursday. In quotes reported beforehand of its complete release on New Years' Eve, the Belgian also admitted that he wished to return to Inter within the destiny.
Asked about the striker's remarks before Chelsea's sport in opposition to Liverpool, Tuchel admitted that the tale has been an unwelcome distraction at Stamford Bridge.
"We don't love it of course. It brings noise that we don't want and it's now not useful. We don't want to make greater out of it than it actually is. It is easy to take lines out of context, shorten lines, make headlines and then comprehend later that it isn't always so awful," he stated.
"I totally understand the process and that is why it is a lot of noise, not a touch noise. But nevertheless, we are not right here to study the headlines. We can make the effort to try to apprehend what is going on as it does no longer mirror the each day paintings, mindset and behaviour which Romelu suggests right here at Cobham."
He delivered: "If you're any such huge participant like Romelu, it's miles constantly inside the public. He ought to understand what type of price he has whilst he speaks out with messages like this. Everything is less difficult when we win."
Tuchel went directly to point out that even though dressing room concord can be missing at Chelsea for the time being following a few disappointing consequences, this isn't continually a terrible thing.
"The dressing room won't usually be in harmony," he persevered.
"Sometimes it is ideal to be on the edge, in disharmony. With Romelu, I don't assume that absolutely everyone on this constructing is unaware that he is sad. I can see no reason why he should be like this. That's all I can say."
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