Callum Hudson-Odoi is another Chelsea player who’s future is up in the air before the end of this window.
It looks like the winger wants to go out on loan or be sold in order to get more regular game time than he is being handed at the club right now, after missing out on the squad altogether on the opening game of the season, and then when he does play, largely being asked to play as a wing-back.
It will certainly be one to keep and eye on as we enter the final weeks of the window, and Thomas Tuchel admits that ‘everybody is for sale’ in his squad. In the same breathe though, he says that nobody is for sale. But he’s pointing towards the situation with Hudson-Odoi and other players in his squad, still being open right now.
In words released via the official Chelsea website, Tuchel said:
“In general nobody is for sale, and everybody is for sale. It depends in the end on what the player wants, how bad the player wants it, what we think, and who is ready to pay a certain amount of money, and then maybe everybody is for sale.
“Callum competes, he had a long-term injury and long-term problems to overcome so that’s from where he suffered. I think he has still a long way to go to live up to his potential because the potential is huge.
“Having Raheem [Sterling] in can maybe give him the extra boost to step and see what is needed on these kind of positions to reach the level that he wants to reach and that he can reach. At the moment he’s our player and he needs to fight and fight.”
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