COVID-19: Tuchel speaks on players Chelsea wouldn’t sign this summer

Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel has given one criterion the Blues expect of any player they want to sign this summer.

According to Tuchel, Chelsea wouldn’t sign any player yet to get the COVID-19 vaccine.

This comes as the Blues are currently without N’Golo Kante and Ruben Loftus-Cheek in their preseason tour of the US as the two were not allowed to travel because they are yet to be vaccinated.

The pair were instead in an Under-23 line-up taking on Boreham Wood on Friday.

Tuchel said: “I knew some players who I would also take without vaccination. I have to say. But yes, it is a part of daily life at the moment.”

When pressed on whether a player’s decision over taking the vaccine has come into his thinking, he added: “Yes, it has to.”

Chelsea have already signed Raheem Sterling and Kalidou Koulibaly from Manchester City and Napoli this summer.

They are also close to welcoming a third player soon.