{"id":8578,"date":"2022-02-06T09:01:10","date_gmt":"2022-02-06T14:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/02\/06\/chelsea-drop-reece-james-return-hint-despite-tuchel-comments\/"},"modified":"2022-02-06T09:01:10","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T14:01:10","slug":"chelsea-drop-reece-james-return-hint-despite-tuchel-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/02\/06\/chelsea-drop-reece-james-return-hint-despite-tuchel-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea drop Reece James return hint despite Tuchel comments"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chelsea have dropped a big hint regarding when we could see Reece James back in action.<\/p>\n

James has been out of action for some time now, but is seemingly closing in on a return.<\/p>\n

As per The Athletic<\/a>, Reece James has travelled to the FIFA Club World Cup after being named in the club\u2019s squad.<\/p>\n

The Blues\u2019 first clash of the Club World Cup sees them play on Wednesday the 9th<\/sup> of February with a final then expected a few days later on Saturday the 12th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

So, with Chelsea only set to play two games at the CWC and the last being on the 12th <\/sup>at the latest, it appears that James is expected to be back fit by the 12th<\/sup>, otherwise he surely would have been left at home?<\/p>\n

What Thomas Tuchel said about Reece James<\/h2>\n

However, James\u2019 inclusion in Chelsea\u2019s CWC squad does come after some contradictory comments from Tuchel regarding James.<\/p>\n

Speaking<\/a> ahead of Chelsea\u2019s FA Cup tie on Saturday, Tuchel claimed that James would not travel with the club for their upcoming mini-tournament:<\/p>\n

\u201cReece is not in team training yet, so he\u2019s not available this weekend. And he will not travel with us to Abu Dhabi because he\u2019s not back in team training.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m too long a manager to have big feelings for injuries, and not to get overexcited by pure dates that are maybe out there when a player can come back.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know you can have setbacks and it can take a long time sometimes, it depends, and the injury was a big injury and I felt it straight away.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe diagnosis was straight away that it\u2019s a big injury, and from there we need to be patient. It\u2019s a hamstring, it\u2019s always tricky and he\u2019s a very physical player.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd unfortunately he then caught the flu and that was a setback in the last few days of his process in coming back to the team.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut we are patient. We would love to have him back tomorrow of course, but it\u2019s not happening and we have to be patient.\u201d<\/p>\n

It will be interesting to see what happens with James in the coming week.<\/p>\n

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Chelsea have dropped a big hint regarding when we could see Reece James back in action. James has been out of action for some time now, but is seemingly closing in on a return. As per The Athletic, Reece James has travelled to the FIFA Club World Cup after being named in the club\u2019s squad. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[13,14],"class_list":["post-8578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-sport","tag-football","tag-soccer","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}