Reece James facing Chelsea crossroads as he targets return after injury hell [Video]

If Rio Ferdinand is right, Reece James’s phone will have been buzzing off the hook for much of Wednesday morning as England’s players chased the low-down on their new manager Thomas Tuchel.

“I know for a fact these players will be sitting there ringing each other,” former England defender Ferdinand explained on his social media channel Rio Reacts. “They’ll be calling all their mates that played under him. ‘What was he like?’. That’s what the conversations will be.”

For James, who won the Champions League under Tuchel at Chelsea, an England recall may just have gotten a little more likely, but remains, for now, a long way off. The aim, as it was at the start of the summer, is more straightforward: “I have one goal. My goal is to stay on the pitch.”

In the same international break as Tuchel was signing his new contract with the FA, James – who has not started …