Chelsea finds himself in spite of himself confronted with a delicate situation. Its owner Roman Abramovich has taken a step back from the English club, he who is suspected of being close to the Kremlin and of participating in the peace negotiations which have started between Russia and Ukraine. We learned this morning that two of the six directors were threatening to resign. The club, the players and the coach find themselves on the front of the stage when they have not asked for anything. Inevitably, that annoys Thomas Tuchel, whose composure has its limits, especially when the questions on the subject are repeated. “You start all your questions with the same sentence. “We know that there are more important things than sport, but do you have a comment?”. But you ask me about the war. How many times should I say it? Of course it’s awful. We can’t say anything else. I have already said it, it occupies all the news. There is more important than sport. It will always be the case. There are plenty of more important things. It can disturb us”recognizes the technician who continues.
“We are worried but we try to focus on work, on our passion. We are grateful, privileged to be able to do this. We all try to do it the best way possible. We have to stay calm, think about what we love: sport. Players have the right to think about sport. The fans too, we saw it against Liverpool on Sunday (in the League Cup final). Everyone knows that there are more important things than sports. The situation in Ukraine is more important than our game on Sunday and yet the stadium was full. Still revived in a press conference on the subject of the war and the consequences for the Blues, the German ended up asking to unpin. “Listen, stop now! I am not a politician! Honestly, stop. I’m going to repeat the same thing and it makes me uncomfortable. I have never known war. Just talking about it makes me uncomfortable because I’m a privileged person. I’m here in a peaceful environment and I’m doing the best I can but stop asking me the question. I can’t answer it. »
