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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Nick Purewal

Chelsea: Nobody wants to touch ‘cursed’ No9 shirt, jokes Thomas Tuchel

Thomas Tuchel has insisted Chelsea did not deliberately leave the No9 shirt free with a future new signing in mind.

Chelsea's No9 remains vacant after Romelu Lukaku's return to Inter Milan on loan, and Tuchel said none of the Blues' current stars wanted to take the shirt.

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