04/08/2022
What Tino Livramento and Thomas Tuchel have said about Chelsea transfer amid buy-back clause.
LIVRAMENTO "Maybe one day, but I'm just enjoying my football at the moment at Southampton, that's where my head's at right now," Livramento said ahead of the last meeting between the clubs in October. "[I am] Just trying to pick up as many points as possible and improving individually.
Tino Livramento has impressed this season for Southampton since leaving Chelsea, although the Blues do have a buy-back option as part of the deal agreed last summer
"Yes of course he was highly rated," Tuchel said of Livramento back in October ahead of the sides' first meeting. "We did everything to keep him here, to show him his future and his possibilities to compete for a position in our team.
"He decided to go, that was his decision and you sometimes have to accept. There are not hard feelings because we can show him possibilities and then it is on the player. He was of course competing with Reece James and Cesar Azpilicueta on the right wing-back position.
"I think it was an ideal position to fight because the group wasn’t too big. There was a big chance for him to make it all the way. He decided to go and it’s fair enough, we wish him all the best. We saw the potential, he decided to go another way and fight for a place at Southampton.
Tino Livramento is set to come up against his former club Chelsea once again tomorrow (Saturday) as the Blues visit St Mary's to face Southampton.
