BUDGET CUTS

Tuchel is resigned to lower spending with Roman gone

- Matthew Dunn

THOMAS TUCHEL has been left shopping to a budget as realities of new ownership kick in.

Money is there for the Chelsea head coach to spend as part of the Todd Boehly takeover but there are already signs that it now has to stretch much further.

The impact of Roman Abramovich’s departure from Stamford Bridge is still being felt as the new regime starts to pick up the pieces of what two decades of the oligarch’s rule has left behind.

It was always predicted the departure of Abramovich would leave a huge financial mess to clear up – instead, the main victim has been time as the new club hierarchy is having to pick up the pace after the club drifted through the final months of the season.