Chelsea had loan offers for both Billy Gilmour and Tino Anjorin on transfer deadline day but Thomas Tuchel admits that he wanted to keep them after seeing them in training.
Gilmour was open to a loan move and is bidding to be part of Scotland's squad for Euro 2020, which will now take place in the summer of 2021.
However, Tuchel was impressed by the youngster, along with Anjorin, who increasingly found himself training with the first team under the previous manager Frank Lampard.
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“That was maybe the most comfortable transfer period in my life as a professional coach,” Tuchel told reporters.