Potential owner says Tuchel will remain at Chelsea

One of the Blues prospective owners, Sir Martin Broughton, has assured that Germany international Thomas Tuchel will remain as the club’s head coach should his consortium bid to buy the West London club be successful.

Broughton, a partner with private equity company Sports Investment Partners, leading a consortium bid alongside World Athletics president Lord Sebastian Coe, also said that Chelsea fans are emotional owners.

He is among those that submitted a bid to take over Chelsea from Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich after the UK government sanctioned him.

“Do the fans want Thomas Tuchel to stay? Absolutely we want him to stay,” Broughton told talkSPORT.

“There is not a Chelsea fan around that I know that would suggest any other solution would be the right solution.

“Ultimately, in all of these things, that will finish up being down to Thomas Tuchel.

“But there is only one position we will be taking.”

“Once we become the legal owners, we have to remember that the emotional ownership is actually with the fans. So you have got to involve them in one way or another,” Broughton added.

“We don’t want to sit and tell fans which ones [ownership models] we are going to introduce. I have actually met the Chelsea Supporters’ Trust.

“We said to them, which ones do you want? How do you want this to work in the future? Because we need to carry you with us. You are the emotional owners of this club.”