Thomas Tuchel has admitted there is not much demand among Chelsea’s players for the No 9 shirt vacated by Romelu Lukaku because of a ‘curse’ stretching back to the days of Fernando Torres
The manager was asked whether he would like to sign a striker, after refusing to comment on Aubameyang, who he managed at Borussia Dortmund. “Let’s see and check it out,” he said. “We come from this curse of No 9; I’m also superstitious, I can understand why players maybe don’t touch it and have other preferences. It’s like this, but I think Raheem [Sterling] will help us a lot and in general it’s our responsibility to create more offensive positions to have maybe a bit more players in the box.
Chelsea are expected to step up their pursuit of the Leicester defender Wesley Fofana after their £60m offer was rejected this week but Tuchel said he had been focusing on Saturday’s trip to Everton after what he described as a “turbulent” summer of transfer dealings working with the co-owner and stand-in director of football, Todd Boehly.“You can get lost in all these names and opportunities and suddenly you end up playing a 2-7-1 or whatever,” he said.
Tuchel added: “It was quite turbulent as well in here, I have to say. It was important with the new season starting: do we still try something? No. It’s Everton now and that process has helped everybody to calm down. Seeing that we are succeeding in the market also calmed me down and there’s been give and take for everybody. The strength of Chelsea is calmness from inside and also outside and we need to reach that status again.
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