Chelsea boss Tuchel denies Pulisic rift 

Thomas Tuchel insists there is ‘zero problem’ between him and a ‘very positive’ Christian Pulisic.

Pulisic’s father Mark posted then deleted a tweet on May 1 lamenting the USA forward’s “sad” situation at Stamford Bridge.

Pulisic senior insisted the 23-year-old loves Chelsea, his teammates, and London, with any mention of Blues boss Tuchel conspicuous by its absence.

“I’m not concerned if a father does not say that a player loves a manager,” said Tuchel.

“It’s a normal thing (for a player to be frustrated). But like every manager, we have our reasons to choose a line-up and we have our reasons to go for players in the first XI.”

Competition

“And you will never see on this kind of level of competition happy faces from players who are not selected.Between me and Christian exists zero problem. He had a fantastic training week so far.”

“He is in some matches a huge impact from the bench, and for him for everybody else there’s absolutely nothing to do with any tweet or any reaction from agents or fathers or whatever.

“I didn’t even know about it because I didn’t want to get affected by it, in my judgement, because it has nothing to do with it.

“The players in the end are responsible to be in the team and stay in the team, “I would do my very best to make the right judgment.

“Am I always right? For sure not. Is it always fair? For sure not. But this is also what you sign up for in a club like Chelsea.

“And I haven’t experienced the same reaction from Christian lately, it was actually the opposite: he’s been very strong and very positive in the last weeks.”