🚨🎙️| Thomas Tuchel reacts to Manchester City’s financial breaches during his time at Chelsea.
🗣️“If what has now been established about Manchester City happened during the period when we were competing for the Premier League, then of course you have to look back and ask questions.
In the 2021/22 season, Chelsea were competing at the highest level and we believed we had a team capable of challenging for the Premier League title. We finished third, but Manchester City were the champions. Chelsea should have been the team lifting that Premier League trophy that year.
At the time, nobody could tell us that the team we were competing against had been found guilty of financial breaches covering the same broader period. We simply prepared for the competition, followed the rules and tried to win football matches.
Now, after the findings, I think it is fair to ask whether the competition was truly equal. If the rules were broken in a way that helped build or maintain a squad capable of competing at that level, then clubs who competed against them deserve answers.
Chelsea should have had a genuine opportunity to fight for that Premier League trophy. I cannot change what happened on the pitch, but if those breaches had a sporting impact, then the consequences should not simply stop with a fine.
If Manchester City gained an advantage during the period we were competing with them, then the Premier League has a responsibility to examine what that meant for the clubs who finished behind them. Chelsea should not simply accept that everything that happened during that period was completely fair.”