Timo Werner says he felt 'forgotten' by Thomas Tuchel at Chelsea and knew Romelu Lukaku partnership was doomed to fail

Timo Werner has blamed Thomas Tuchel for his failed Chelsea stint, saying his good moments were quickly forgotten.

Werner joined the Blues in 2020 after taking the Bundesliga by storm with Leipzig, but after two seasons, he was straight back there.

The £50million move didn't quite go to plan, with Werner criticised for missing a number of big chances, he and Romelu Lukaku were shipped out last summer after their purported dream partnership failed to come to fruition.

Werner ended his time at Stamford Bridge with 23 goals in 89 games, and was able to call himself a Champions League winner for his part in their 2020/21 triumph.

Despite his profligacy in front of goal, Werner won over many Chelsea fans with his non-stop running and hard work, but he claims countryman Tuchel wasn't such an admirer.

"I had a very good first six months at Chelsea, which was what the supporters and club expected of me," he told The Sun.

"I scored the goals and played good games. When you come from the kind of success I had in Germany or with Chelsea - playing nearly every game in the first season, winning the Champions League in 2021, scoring in the semi-final against Real Madrid, making a lot of goals.

"Then all this gets a little bit forgotten by the manager, it was not really fair. That was also a reason I had to move back to Leipzig, to get the enjoyment again.

"I didn't feel that any more but you need it to be successful. In the end a manager likes some players more than others - it's completely normal and you have to accept that. Maybe yes, in the end I just wanted out."

Tuchel left Chelsea in September as one of the club's most successful coaches, but his transfer activity certainly let him down.

The then record signing of £97.2m Lukaku convinced many it would trigger a perfect partnership with Werner, but the Leipzig man was well aware that was never going to be the case.

He explained: "The biggest problem was he [Tuchel] put a striker like Lukaku in front of me in the second season after I won the Champions League by nearly playing every game in the first squad.

"That was the toughest moment for me to get a player, a very good player, in front of me for 120million euros.

"Romelu was a big striker and had to play after costing so much and I didn't feel honoured enough. Maybe that was also a reason why I had ups and downs."