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·26 July 2021

Chelsea boss Tuchel: Organising this preseason complicated

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Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel admits it's been a tough preseason to organise given the Euros and Copa America this summer.

Several senior Chelsea players were involved in both tournaments.


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Tuchel told the club's website: "Yes, and it gets more and more complicated these days, because there's almost every year a tournament. Two years ago was a Copa America, this year was a Copa America and Euros, and now in 18 months will come a winter World Cup – again a new challenge and we will try to find solutions while we are doing it.

"So it gets more and more demanding to prepare teams for a whole season because there is a huge link between preparation and not being injured, between preparation and performance, and between input and output; you can put it as easy as that.

"If we don't allow the players to rest enough and if we don't allow the players to have enough time for the input for a season, we struggle to see them perform at the highest level, and this is what we want to do, we want to perform for the people who love the game. We want to perform on a high level and it's complicated. This is not a cry for help and not an excuse but it's reality. And this is not like the optimal."

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