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@kazani
Chelsea have dropped 17 points from winning positions this season, with 15 of those coming at Stamford Bridge, this is more than any other side in the league.
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@kazani
Mamadou Sarr will arrive in London tomorrow after Chelsea recall and can train with the first-team straight away.
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@kazani
Napoli not lost at home since December 2024 vs Lazio & have gone 25 games since then without defeat. Chelsea’s turn to try tonight
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@kazani
No release clause. No interest in leaving.
Cole Palmer stays at Chelsea for the foreseeable future.
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@kazani
Just to be clear upfront
I rate Enzo Fernández very highly and think he's been excellent over the last 18 months.
That said, if PSG came in this summer with a £100m offer, I'd take it, and here's why.
Most of us want to see Palmer and Estêvão playing together. To make that work, you're almost certainly looking at a 4-2-3-1. The issue is that Enzo is at his best in a 4-3-3. Structurally, that pushes you toward choosing Palmer or Estêvão rather than accommodating both.
From a balance perspective, a double pivot of Caicedo plus someone like Wharton, Anderson, Bouaddi, or Smit fits the shape better. I don't think Enzo is ever going to be athletic enough to consistently function in a pivot, especially in the way this team wants to play.
This isn't an indictment of his quality - far from it. It's more about fit. In our system, he creates trade-offs that ripple through the rest of the XI.
I'd be happy to be proven wrong, but based on how Rosenior seems to want the team to function, that's how it looks to me right now.
Aside from my points, we'll miss his overall mentality no matter how much it is attempted to be dismissed as an important quality. He offers us so much. Mentality, leadership, goals etc. It's a risk.
If Rosenior finds a way to play Enzo and it not effect Palmer and Estevao then brilliant. Obviously would prefer that outcome.
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@kazani
2000+ words on Liam Rosenior's Strasbourg – their tactical identity, his standout strengths as manager & what to expect.
https://londonisblue.beehiiv.com/p/liam-rosenior-tactical-analysis-strasbourg-25-26
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@kazani
Interesting read about Chelsea’s U18 coach, Hassan Sulaiman. Calum McFarlane is joining Liam Rosenior’s first-team coaching staff, which leaves the U21 role vacant. Instead of promoting the U18 head coach to the U21s, his assistant, Harry Hudson got promoted to become the U21 coach. As a result, Sulaiman remains with the U18s while his assistant was promoted ahead of him.
It’s worth noting that Hassan Sulaiman has been part of Chelsea’s youth setup since 2008.
Apparently, everyone who was promoted has links to Joe Shields and the Kinetic Academy. Hmmmm!
https://x.com/i/status/2009609620688699405
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