I think they bring in Mat Miazga to shore up the defense and CP to energize the offense, along with Hazard, of course. Hudson Odoi is given his chance and is unreal. They win the Europa League and qualify automatically for CL which they go on to win. Chelsea becomes to the pipeline for Americans and what is left is scoffed up by every other league on earth. Aliens come to Earth and want to help us solve our problems as a species and all is good.
I think your paragraph might accidentally be ordered from least likely sentence to most likely sentence, instead of the other way around. I, for one, welcome our new alien overlords.
I agree. He is not be part of the problem. Hopefully, who ever is the coach sees him as part of the solution. He is known for being a hard worker in practice. Every coach up to now has praised him for it. He will get his chances at Chelsea.
Staying healthy, probably yes. Great second half,not likely. BvB is out of Cup competition, and they will soon be eliminated from CL. There's only minutes left in the BL games. Unless Sancho, Guerrero, and Larsen stunk up the joint; CP will spend most of his time on the bench. Where he can recovers and stay healthy.
It's not just the British press and, in fact, they are late to this view. I was hearing in early January very strong expression of the current opinions about Sarri's performance as manager from the Grumpy Pundits on the SiriusXM FC show. They were unequivocal in their criticism that he has made huge errors in taking Kante, arguably the best central midfielder in the world, and running him in a position where he is not best in the world. Further, Kante was replaced by someone who was brought in by Sarri (Jorginho) and is a "he who cannot be substituted/replaced" despite being a player who consistently fails to track back defensively in a timely manner. The Grumps cited other major coaching sins, as well.
It's about a bunch of richly paid divas who have taken control of a club. Happened to Real not long ago, too. Zidane put discipline back and everything went wonderfully.
How many are at the end of the rainbow; how many at the beginning; how many at the prime of their careers? BTW, how many on loan who have not been given a proper chance to play? IMHO, you can only buy success so many times. Then your best age out replaced by aging out or up and coming. In Chelsea's case, I think they have more aging out than up and coming. Every season they don't catch it, it's gonna get worse. Other than Hazard, Higuian and maybe Pedro, who is in their prime?
This is kind of scary... There are lots of teenagers that have played tons of minutes over the last two decades that don't have these kinds of recurring injuries, so the idea that this is just what happens to young people playing a lot isn't reassuring to me. But we'll see! The prem certainly won't be LESS athletically taxing.
Plenty of players within the "prime age" range in Chelsea: Kanté (27), Jorginho (27), Drinkwater (28), Hazard (28), Azpilicueta (29), Alonso (28), etc. That they're not "in their prime" is all about being in Chelsea. Saying they "are not in their prime" is circular thinking: in other places, they were doing much better.
Well, the Chelsea business MO is to dazzle young kids with stars in the first team and make believe the're going to be part of it and then they turn out to be just merchandise to be sold with a couple of millions profit.
Worked very well for them! I mean barring the fact that loan rules are changing and they are facing down a long transfer ban, of course...
Yeah... I was projecting onto CP I suppose. I was hoping that career glory over an extra mansion or two would have been the motivation. Can’t see this version of Chelsea being anything but a disaster. Lucky to makes European league at this rate Literally any other club that was lateral, equal, or even a few select less than clubs would have been better.