Chelsea director Thomas Tuchel says he is defeated striker Romelu Lukaku has chosen to air his grievances with the club in public. ( 1:14 ) Romelu Lukaku ‘s future at Chelsea looks increasingly uncertain after the striker was dropped for the Premier League brush with Liverpool on Sunday, sources told ESPN. Chelsea director Thomas Tuchel made the decision following talks with Lukaku in the wake of a controversial interview conducted by Sky Italia three weeks ago and released Thursday. – Ogden: Chelsea, Liverpool in last-chance saloon to challenge City
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Lukaku said he was “ not identical glad with the situation ” at Chelsea with Tuchel preferring to play “ a different constitution ” to the matchless he expected. He added that he would like to return to Inter Milan while still in the prime of his career, having only left the Serie A side last summer in a €115 million ( £97.5m ) deal. Speaking ahead of the Liverpool peer, Tuchel told Sky Sports : “ The thing got besides boastful and besides noisy close to the peer so I decided to preotect the cooking of the match and that is why he is out. “ Of course we have spoken, twice. I have spoken to the chief players then we had to realise it is excessively close to the match. It is besides boastfully. We delayed the decision and while we are doing that we have to protect the planning of the match.

“ We have a big match of football to play. We need full concentrate which is hard enough to get without this decisiveness but that is why he is not playing. For certain it was a difficult decision to take. ” The day after the interview, Tuchel said that Lukaku ‘s comments were “ unhelpful ” and risked taking the focus away from a pivotal consequence in the Premier League championship race.

Sources told ESPN that Lukaku gave the interview without the club ‘s cognition, an dissemble that Tuchel and his staff have taken a dim view of. Lukaku was not believed to have any purpose of attempting to force a move away in January, but it remains to be seen whether his punishment — which could so far be accompanied by a fine — prompts a change of kernel. When asked on Friday how to get the best out of Lukaku, Tuchel replied : “ trail, trail, playing. train, act, aim, sleeping, eating good, discipline, play, sleeping, eating commodity, drink a lot of water, sleep, train and do n’t give interviews. ” Chelsea came from two goals down to draw 2-2 against Liverpool at Stamford Bridge on Sunday. The solution left Tuchel ‘s side 10 points behind leaders Manchester City .