Michael Scofield™️

The curse of Chelsea number 9

The Premier League is currently in the Mikel Arteta era — The era of compact, physical, frustrating mid-blocks. A few seasons back, every club even the newly promoted sides were focused on perfect build ups and dominating possession like Pep. Now, the best-performing teams in the league are the ones built around compact, well-drilled mid-blocks. Arteta effectively gave inferior teams a tactical template on how to match up with and frustrate bigger sides. He’s the only coach to have successfully implemented this mid-block approach at a big club while still competing for titles with it in recent seasons. To some extent, Arteta is responsible for how high the Premier League’s floor has become this season, and how capped the ceiling looks, a blessing and a curse.

Chelsea are behind Liam Rosenior and sympathise that he has come into a situation where the squad is said to be ‘knackered’ and has not had appropriate time to implement his ideas. Summer target lists are underway with all eventualities being considered, as Chelsea feel UCL qualification will likely come down to fine margins in May. There is no current suggestion that the model will be changed. Chelsea also feel that contract statues with many current stars wanting more money is further proof that it would not be wise to chase signings that would be looking for a high base salary. The club want players to be together as a team and earn their money. There is not an appetite to create an entitled and unhealthy culture and the cost to risk ratio is high. Directors are working within the financial restrictions and the model put in place by Behdad Egbhali. There may be an odd exception but generally this is what I’m told. The club are open to spending high transfer fee’s but not salaries straight away. 1/3…

🚨 Most expensive signings in Chelsea FC history.

You have a £300m budget to fix Chelsea this summer. How do you spend it?

🔵🚨𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆: 𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐋𝐒𝐄𝐀 𝐇𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐌𝐔𝐍𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐅𝐅𝐄𝐑 𝐓𝐎 𝐁𝐔𝐘 𝐒𝐀𝐈𝐃 𝐄𝐋 𝐌𝐀𝐋𝐀(19)! 🇩🇪🔥 He is 6’2 LW He Has That Workrate and Smell for goal A “Robben” type winger🤩 Chelsea Are Ready To Pay £42M😳

Wesley Fofana is always in the public spotlight for bad reasons , paid huge money for him , can barely play 2 straight matches , always injured , always doing something on camera or posting weird stuff on the internet. He should be first to move out of the club this summer. Overrated player

The stupid thing about this tie is Chelsea are going to end up with as many big chances and a better xG. They have conceded maybe 1 really quality goal and the other 6 have been gifts from a defensive standpoint. It's simply not good enough at elite level.