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Thomas Tuchel has placed great faith in John Stones and Djed Spence while ignoring several star names in attack Thomas Tuchel said that whittling down his 55-player longlist gave him “a certain edge”. There were some tough phone calls and some decisions inevitably caused outrage. But there was a pointed remark from…
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