Thomas Tuchel has admitted for the first time having to consider players’ vaccination status during the transfer market.
The Chelsea boss is still out here on the club’s US tour without N’Golo Kante and Ruben Loftus-Cheek, both of whom have yet to take the Covid vaccine, rendering them unable to travel. 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.” Pressed on whether a player’s decision over taking the vaccine has come into his thinking, he added: “Yes, it has to.”
