New owners sack EPL manager after six games

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Thomas Tuchel has been fired by Chelsea lone 1 period into the play and conscionable days aft the nine concluded a Europe-high spending spree of astir $446 cardinal successful the transportation window.

The determination by Chelsea's caller ownership, fronted by Los Angeles Dodgers part-owner Todd Boehly, came a time aft the squad amazingly mislaid to Dinamo Zagreb 1-0 successful its archetypal radical lucifer of the Champions League.

Tuchel, who has been a frustrated and prickly fig aft matches this season, said "everything is missing" erstwhile helium summed up Chelsea's show against Dinamo and complained that his players "lacked hunger."

Chelsea has mislaid 2 of its archetypal six games — to Leeds and Southampton — successful an underwhelming commencement to the Premier League that has seen the club's caller signings neglect to gel.

"As the caller ownership radical reaches 100 days since taking implicit the club, and arsenic it continues its hard enactment to instrumentality the nine forward, the caller owners judge it is the close clip to marque this transition," Chelsea said successful a statement.

Tuchel was successful complaint for a twelvemonth and a half, winning the Champions League lone six months into his tenure. Chelsea faded successful the 2nd fractional of past play — Tuchel's lone afloat run astatine the helm — and was eliminated successful the quarterfinals of the Champions League earlier finishing 3rd successful the Premier League, 19 points down champion Manchester City.

That came successful a play wherever Chelsea was changing ownership aft Roman Abramovich was forced to enactment the London nine connected the market aft being sanctioned by the British authorities for what it called his enabling of Russian President Vladimir Putin's "brutal and barbaric invasion" of Ukraine.

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That led to Chelsea's merchantability for 2.5 cardinal pounds ($4.27 billion) to a consortium fronted by Boehly, who rapidly made himself president arsenic good arsenic interim sporting manager successful complaint of transfers.

Raheem Sterling, Kalidou Koulibaly and Marc Cucurella came successful for large fees during the offseason, earlier the last days of the transportation model saw Chelsea walk 75 cardinal pounds ($128 million) connected French centre backmost Wesley Fofana and past bring successful Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang from Barcelona to plug a spread successful its striker options.

Aubameyang cited playing nether Tuchel earlier — astatine Borussia Dortmund — arsenic a payment of the determination and was handed a debut against Dinamo, which proved to beryllium Tuchel's past crippled successful charge.

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