Every word Thomas Tuchel said on Charlotte vs Chelsea, Sterling, Koulibaly, Broja, Colwill, more

"No it's not decided yet. We have one more training session. We had two intense training sessions yesterday and decided to do one more today before we travel to Charlotte, and then it's all about the next and the next step and the next step in pre-season. It's always like this.

"The focus is on our team. We had an intense match against Club America and now and now we will focus on that match to improve when we are playing against Charlotte. The meeting will be tomorrow – analyzing with the team will be tomorrow – and then we will focus a bit more on tactical issues because all the focus was on the physical versus Club America."

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"We are a bit torn and I have to speak to him, to be honest, about what we do tomorrow. We will decide later in the afternoon. He has done some training sessions with us but he is still in a very individual programme, so no double sessions on the pitch.

"He trains with the team but, of course, as you can imagine there are players who are in their third week of preparation and at a completely different level of foundation physically. That is not a good match for him to straight start with a team and straight away play. I don’t want to rule it out completely but it is very likely that he will not play, we will not see him on the pitch.

"I’m happy because he is a calm guy and you can see his quilt on the pitch, his leadership. He has a certain personality that you feel when he is there and he is good for us."

“It will be a bit easier this season because we have five changes and it’s very likely we will use most of the changes for offensive players because they are the positions you can normally have a