Thomas Tuchel grew tired at repeated questions aimed at him regarding the war in Ukraine ahead of Chelsea's FA Cup tie with Luton Town.
The Chelsea boss has been constantly asked his view on the matter due to the club's Russian oligarch owner, Roman Abramovich, but the German eventually lost his cool.
"How often do I need to say it? It's horrible, of course, it's horrible, there cannot be any other opinion about it," he said at his press conference.
"Everybody in Europe has some noise in their head that nobody likes. Maybe it's the same for you, but you still try to do your job as good as possible and it's the same for us.
"Listen, you have to stop. I'm not a politician. You have to stop, honestly," Tuchel said.
"I can only repeat and I even feel bad to repeat it because I never experienced war. I'm very privileged, I sit here in peace and I do the best I can but you have to stop asking me these questions. I have no answers for you."
Tuchel insists that matters regarding the owner are out of his hands.
"We try to be calm, and we are calm in the centre of a storm or of some noise around us that we cannot control and we are not responsible for it," he said.
"In the end it's best to focus on what we love and what we do, and this is sports. And I think we have the right to focus on sports, the players have the right to focus.
"This is what we can do for the fans - to distract them, to entertain them and do what we do with a maximum effort and a maximum commitment."
迪普
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Where were FIFA/UEFA when USA killed generations in Iraq?? Its well known they had no real reason to attack. What about the others -Afganistan, Vietnam etc?. They decided to push a week Russia for years on post 1991. NATO surrounds Russia from different sides and now they decided to integrate Ukraine aswell. As far as I see it NATO was stepping on Russia neck, Putin didn't have much Choice. If the government of Ukraine cared about peace they wouldn't have tried to proke Russia like this. You deploy USA troops,Missiles under Putin's nose and expect anything else?? What NATO, EU are doing has nothing to do with peace and everything to do with who the opposition is. Everytime US goes to war they earn billions in weapon export. Everytime!! After Iraq war Us companies got a huge contract from the largest oil rig off the cost of Mexico, which was previously state owned by Iraq. There are thousands of such examples. I feel sad for the suffering of people in Ukraine. The US based social media giants are doing all they can paint a "Victim" picture and people are following like sheep. China did the best by banning all these methods of brainwashing, thus you don't hear the largest population on earth getting angry on the wrong party. Mayb we need a way more bipolar world with a new world order. Kindly stop targeting Putin only. Target Biden,Boris, Zelensky and all others, that's if you care about peace.
Savage909
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EUFA and FIFA bringing politics into world of football what a shame, Ukraine and Putin war are political affairs, let them go settle their issues and leave football alone
Cotcenotu
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kamaludinho
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zothanmoya
27
correct he is not a politician, why only Ukraine n Russia what about middle east,where is everyone when US invade middle east
cobimpr
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Yes, please don’t bring politics to the world of football, to the world of sports, to the Olympic! We don’t like war at all! Me don’t like to say this but, most of the wars everywhere after World War II, USA involved, and looking at Middle East, they are the culprit. TBH, even this war at Ukraine, it was in some way, instigated by USA! Shame of them!,