Olise news is a weird one. Agreed terms and had the RC triggered, but we backed off due to some sort of breach or unwillingness to go through the rigors of a case with little time left in the window and much work to be done. Wonder what the specifics mean in the case of "tapping".
Funny, he cleared all the Palace stuff from his instagram and looked to be prepping for the move. News sparks, Olise returns and agree's the extension (with a RC). The fact that he chose us over City makes me feel like if we did go back in for him next summer it will be all but a formality to bring him back to Chelsea.
Let him have another full year at Palace to hone his craft and we'll come for him after he makes that genuine star leap.
Other than that.
Sold Lewis Hall who pushed for a move to his boyhood club Newcastle.
They've now 3/4ths of the best backline in Europe.
Hall - Botman - (x) - Livramento will cause serious problems. Their proscouting in general is phenomenal.
Lastly Ben Chilwell is still a terrorist.
(sarcastic comp title)
The positions and spaces he was finding himself in against Liverpool was great, but in our final form it should be our version of Mitoma/Mane/Martinelli/Giggs/Bale/Robben/Sane etc making those runs and receiving those passes. He was extremely wasteful. No close dribbling or ability to beat a man, no playmaking, zero ball retention. The right idea by Poch, but with that profile maximized we win that game comfortably. It should be a wide winger in those spaces. It's not like he was participating in any sort of defending anyways. Completely isolated Colwill on an island against Salah.
My hope going forward is in the fact that Poch did have Sterling on the right for the first time for Chelsea, away from Ben Chilwell, and he had maybe his best game since the transfer. When Mudryk came on, he also had him on the right opposite Chilwell. It seems that he understands that a winger cannot thrive beside Chilwell since he's a glorified winger / second striker himself. The only locking up he does is towards any attacker on his own flank.
Can't wait til he leaves my club. The next virus to hopefully be defeated. And then we go up a notch.
Anyways up the Chels.