Romelu Lukaku for Chelsea FC: Thomas Tuchel admits he wants a target player… ‘but not at any cost’

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Lukaku has told Inter Milan that he wants to leave the club to join Chelsea if they receive a suitable offer after the Italians turned down the Blues’ opening €100m bid.

Tuchel described Lukaku as a “fantastic player” and admitted that the European champions lacked a striker who could catch the ball.

“He’s a great player but he’s an Inter player and with all due respect I won’t talk about him.

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“Not everyone but I can imagine a lot of players want to come and join [Chelsea] But we do not comment on it!

“I think with Olivier Giroud out we can use a player who is used to playing with his back to goal, and his strength is to keep possession from long balls so we can add that direct style of play to our group,” Tuchel added.

“This is the quality of a player who is not Tammy [Abraham]Timo [Werner] or kai [Havertz] So this is a profile that we don’t have in the team and that can be useful, but not at any cost and not frenetic or in a panic no matter what happens we will be competitive and have confidence in our guys that we can still develop and that we have young players in the offensive part of the game We demand that they need improvement.

“We are comfortable and well aware of our situation at the same time.”

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Chelsea lacked a focal point as Hakim Ziyech scored twice in the draw with Tottenham who fought back from 2-0 down with goals from Lucas Moura and Steven Bergwijn.

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