Thomas Tuchel was about the knock-on effect of the club World Cup on the next season’s title race. “I think it will have a huge impact and it will give Liverpool and Arsenal a huge advantage in the following season not to be there,” he said.
What Tuchel did not mention is that, as a result, Chelsea is eligible for the club World Cup because of him. It feels a very different era considering that Enzo Maresca is the fifth man to manage them, since then – Graham Potter, Bruno Saltor, Frank Lampard and Mauricio Pochettino are the others – and that Reece James is the only player who is the field in Tuchel’s 2021 Champions League, his.
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Indeed, if some of the others get the medals from winners in July, this means that Chelsea has not done a unique double from the Europa Conference League and the Club World Cup. Their Champions League-winning captain Cesar Azpilicueta is now in Atletico Madrid, Antonio Rudiger at Real. At 40, Thiago Silva will be in the Fluminen defense. Jorginho completed a switch to Flamengo on time to play for his new club against his old one. Olivier Giroud, on the couch for Chelsea in 2021, could now play a similar role for Los Angeles FC, perhaps rising to score against the blues. Mateo Kovacic is said to have been in the Manchester City team, but for injury.
The Chelsea who qualified for the club World Cup had a different manager, different players, different owners and was in many ways a different club. At least they were serial winners, while the Conference League represented a late first trophy of the Todd Boehly/Clearlake Capital Era.
It was a time of permanent change, inventive accounting, large numbers and new theories. Perhaps the club World Cup is perfect for the new Chelsea, a parable of them. Certainly, the income – a guarantee of more than £ 30 million, the possibility of more than £ 100 million if Chelsea actually wins – could represent that newest lever they attract to pass PSR. This time they don’t have to sell hotels or the ladies team to themselves.
Perhaps it can also be transforming on the field. Chelsea is one of the two Premier League representatives in the tournament. They have not been close to the two best under their current property, even if the finish of the 12th, sixth and fourth at least represent the correct direction of travel after the horrist failure of their debut campaign.
Since the quarterfinals of the Champions League, they have not confronted the European elite when Boehly predicted a 3-0 win over Real at the Bernabeu. Instead, Chelsea lost 2-0, a result that they repeated at home.
Now a group with Lafc, Flamengo and Es Tunis could offer comparisons with the Conference League. Come second and they can be immersed in a last 16 meeting with Bayern Munich. Win the Pole and there is a potential quarterfinals against the new European champions Paris Saint-Germain, conquerors of four Premier League parties this season, in what would be a barometer of progress.
But Chelsea is Chelsea, they are also in permanent transition. The Maresca team was remarkable for omitting some of the higher profile signing sessions in the current regime, in Raheem Sterling and Joao Felix, and one of Tuchel’s Champions League winners, in Ben Chilwell, but also has four new signs.
It would have been at least six if they had got their way. Instead, Jamie Gittens is located in the Borussia Dortmund team, together with the Chelsea loaner Carney Chukwuemeka, after an offer on the winger was rejected. Mike Maignan stays in AC Milan after the late attempt by Chelsea to sign a world -class goalkeeper failed; For now, anyway.
So the potential debutant -goalkeeper is Mike Penders, the teenager who excelled for Genk. The three players who were bought this summer are Mamadou Sarr, Dario Essugo, who is perhaps a substitute for Moises Caicedo and who received Felix’s squadron number, and Liam Delap. The £ 30 million battle ram can take the utmost importance and looks the most likely starter. It can be an example of next season’s game between Delap and Nicolas Jackson for the place of the striker.
Another intriguing arrival is the recurring Andrey Santos, who excelled on loan for Strasbourg; Because Chelsea has collected young players, he can prove one of the few who has benefited from their vorarious approach to recruitment and quixotic attitude towards players development.
Go back to 2021 and Tuchel’s team that won the Champions League were substantiated by experience. Now the standard plan is to buy young; It sometimes means that it corresponds to the matching of deals long before players arrive. Chelsea bought Estevao Willian last summer. The teenager winger will finish his career in Palmeiras in the Club World Cup before moving to England. And Palmeiras may also be quarter -final opponents for Chelsea, together with Azpilicueta’s Atletico. As is often the case, the past, the present and the future of Chelsea are clashing.
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