“Now everybody is for sale” – Tuchel digs at $130,000k a-week Chelsea star
Another Chelsea player whose future is uncertain before the end of this transfer window is Callum Hudson-Odoi.
After being left out of the team entirely for the first game of the season and then mostly being asked to play as a wing-back when he does play, it appears that the winger wants to go out on loan or be sold in order to obtain more consistent game time than he is being handed at the club right now.
Thomas Tuchel acknowledges that “everyone is for sale” in his team, so it will be one to watch as we approach the window’s final weeks. However, he also asserts that nobody is up for sale. He is nonetheless referring to the ongoing crisis involving Hudson-Odoi and other members of his team.
In words released via the official Chelsea website, Tuchel said:
“In general nobody is for sale, and everybody is for sale. It depends in the end on what the player wants, how bad the player wants it, what we think, and who is ready to pay a certain amount of money, and then maybe everybody is for sale.
“Callum competes, he had a long-term injury and long-term problems to overcome so that’s from where he suffered. I think he has still a long way to go to live up to his potential because the potential is huge.
“Having Raheem [Sterling] in can maybe give him the extra boost to step and see what is needed on these kind of positions to reach the level that he wants to reach and that he can reach. At the moment he’s our player and he needs to fight and fight.”