Tuchel Opens up on who will stay in his squad and who will leave .

 Thomas Tuchel is giving

 everyone an opportunity to 

impress at Chelsea but, with the 

likes of Tammy Abraham 

and Danny Drinkwater generating

 exit talk, concedes that certain 

members of his squad "want 

to maybe leave".

The Blues secured a top-four finish 

in the Premier League and savoured 

Champions League glory last season, 

with a German tactician drafted in midway

 through the 2020-21 campaign making an 

immediate impact.

Tuchel is now casting an eye over bloated 

ranks that have welcomed back an army 

of loan stars, with some big decisions needing

 to be made on who stays and who goes 

before the summer transfer window closes 

on August 31.

Tuchel has told the Blues' official website 

on having loanees back and senior stars 

that have been short on regular game time:

 "I have never had that before.

"That was new, I was not scared about it,

 but I was curious to see how the mentality 

is because don't forget, some of them leave 

their families behind, some of them want 

to stay in their loan clubs, some of them 

have not that possibility.

"Some of them have done two or three 

pre-seasons here already. Some of them 

want to look absolutely for the chance 

to stay, some of them want to maybe leave. 

They're humans, they're not robots and that's

 why we have to accept it's not the easiest 

situation also for them.

"But what I’ve experienced every day 

is the complete opposite – it’s a very positive

 group, hardworking, full of desire to learn, 

hungry in every training session and ready

 to go.

"It's such a good mix with the five or six

 guys who were with us here in the last 

half-a-year. I'm absolutely happy because 

it's so much easier than I thought, it's 

so easy and so nice to be the coach of these

 guys. There are possibilities for all of us 

and this group deserves our full attention, 

and they get it.

"I don't judge on where you come from 

or what your history is, or what you earn 

or what your status is. I'm in charge of this 

group so they get my 100 per cent. I give

 my everything, they give it back, they

 make me smile, I give even more, that 

makes them smile, they give even more.

"You try every year to create a certain 

atmosphere where everybody is happy 

to come, everybody feels valued, everybody

 feels confident but everybody knows at the

 same time what is expected from them 

and then you have to live up to your talent.

"These guys are full of talent and now it's

 on us to push them to their highest level

 possible. Then we will decide is this 

in the moment good enough for us, does 

this help us, is it better for the player to 

go on loan or get sold. This comes as the 

last step in this give and take."

A number of exits have already been 

sanctioned at Stamford Bridge, with 

more seemingly on the cards.

Among those to have been offloaded are

 Fikayo Tomori and Olivier Giroud, 

with an England international defender and 

a World Cup-winning striker now tied to 

Serie A giants AC Milan on a permanent

 basis.

A steady stream of talented youngsters 

have also been departing for pastures new, 

with Marc Guehi, Lewis Bate and Myles 

Peart-Harris linking up with Crystal Palace, 

Leeds and Crystal Palace respectively.

Victor Moses is another to have departed 

west London, with the Nigeria international

 staying on at Spartak Moscow, while loan 

spells at Norwich and Hull City have been 

sanctioned for Billy Gilmour and Nathan 

Baxter.

There are more deals to be done, with 

Abraham generating plenty of speculation,

 Drinkwater, Tiemoue Bakayoko, Davide

 Zappacosta and Michy Batshuayi still 

some way down the pecking order while 

Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Ross Barkley 

spent last season elsewhere.