The Athletic. to this very special episode of the Athletic Football

Podcast as we react to Chelsea's shock sacking of Thomas Tewkel

and with us for the show, the Athletics David Ornstein

and our Chelsea correspondent Liam Toomey.

David let's start with you you broke it how quickly is all this moved?

Well I think it's been moving mark behind the scenes quicker than any of us knew

because this was not a decision that was taken on the basis. the

no new because this was not a decision that was taken on the basis of last night's results against

Deanne Mosagreb.

The decision had already been made and it feels like it sounds like it was a little while in the making.

You could even trace the warning signs and alarm bells back to Chelsea's pre-season when senior people there seemed to have felt that Tukal was

acting in a detached way, that the focus wasn't there in the way that they expected it to be.

They've crunched the numbers and looked at the trends of gold scored, goals conceded.

In their first 50 days of ownership compared to their second 50 days of ownership, for example,

they've looked at his demeanor, his behavior, his connection with the players.

They appear to have taken soundings and feedback from the dressing room and this feels like it was broken

from the ownership's perspective and once they felt that they didn't see the reason to hang around. It would be better to make the call sooner rather than later.

They didn't feel he was developing senior players, let alone younger players that you know

you would more commonly hear about development around, but

players who were on the fringes were not feeling connected and integrated. Take Christian Pulisit,

for example, or Timo Werner, Romulikaku, both of whom have left and yeah it's

unraveled in a shock way to us in a spectacular way to the wider public but maybe not internally it seems that Thomas

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