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Timo Werner said ex-Chelsea coach Thomas Tuchel influenced his exit and warned Christopher Nkunku that the Blues are complicated to play for.

Werner left Chelsea last August to return to RB Leipzig and has now explained his decision-making process while giving advice to Nkunku.

WHAT THEY SAID: "I wasn't part of the coach's plan anymore," Werner said of the reasoning behind his departure with Tuchel in charge. "You have to accept that and find a way to deal with it."

He warned Chelsea-linked team-mate Nkunku that the Stamford Bridge experience is very different from RB Leipzig, adding: "I can tell him about both positive and negative experiences, should he make the change. At a club like [Chelsea], you don't play like you do at RB Leipzig because there's more competition. [That's] not just on a sporting level, but also on a different level mentally."