It was confirmed earlier this week that Romeo Lavia will not play for Chelsea again this season after suffering a fresh setback.
The Belgian, who joined the Blues for 52m in the summer, featured for just 32 minutes this campaign due to his injury struggles.
"It's a really difficult situation and he is sad and he can't be happy. But I think sometimes these things can happen," Mauricio Pochettino said about the midfielder, as quoted by London World.
"He arrived with a problem from Southampton and he couldn't train with us. He recovered and trained and after that. It's really sad because when a player arrives he wants to play. Yes, it's really difficult situation for him. He's sad. He's not happy because he only plays 30 minutes.
"For a new player arriving at the club. It's a thing that sometimes happens in football. When the club signed him, he arrived with problems from Southampton.
"He could not train with us in the first months. When he started to be ready to prepare, he suffered a problem in his feet. And then he recovered, played only 30 minutes and got injured.
"From December, we didn't have the possibility to train with him because he was never available or really close. After December, four months, never we had the possibility to train with him. Really sad news."
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