Chelsea head coach Thomas Tuchel says there isn’t a coach in world football who wouldn’t want Tottenham Hotspur talisman Harry Kane in their side. Chelsea are in the market for a new number nine this summer. Erling Haaland is top of the club’s agenda while a move Inter Milan star Romelu Lukaku is an option. A deal for Kane is something of a pipedream, although it’s one Tuchel would almost certainly welcome. Speaking ahead of the Blues’ final Premier League game of the campaign against Aston Villa,
Thomas Tuchel said: “If you find any coach around the world who would not like to have Harry Kane in his team, call me again. I would like to speak with the guy and hear about his ideas of scoring and attacking. Everybody loves Harry Kane but let’s be very, very clear. He is a player for Tottenham. He has a long-term contract and we will not get involved in any press conference with any disrespectful comments about that.”
Jorginho’s second-half penalty took him to seven goals in the top flight this term. No member of Tuchel’s squad can better that figure. It’s a somewhat concerning statistic, especially when considered Kane has 22 goals in the Premier League during the current campaign. Tuchel accepts Chelsea have lacked a prolific goalscorer this term but believes that may be partly down to the fact that a forward, such as Timo Werner, does not take penalties for the Blues.
Thomas Tuchel said: “Is that what we want? Jorginho our top scorer? No. Not because we don’t like Jorgi – he deserves all the fame and all the praise – but, of course, we don’t want him to be our top scorer. But turn it around: if we let Timo take all the penalties he could have seven more. Mason [Mount] scored from a penalty already and Jorgi has also missed. Timo missed [too]. So he could have had another ten more goals and we have a very different discussion with the exact same performance. A lot of top scorers in Europe use penalties to improve their numbers to score. That’s not with Timo. He is not that type of player. We try – in general we don’t need to hide – we try to improve our statistics offensively. First of all, we do that with the guys who are here.”
