Thomas Tuchel will not be solely constructing a squad this summer season to try to problem on the prime once more, I imagine he’s constructing a squad, or extra particularly, a midfield, for the longer term.
We all know Chelsea’s points, we’ve got an ageing midfield pair of Jorginho and N’Golo Kante, who’re each now into the ultimate 12 months of their contracts and displaying no indicators of extending.
We now have different gamers akin to Conor Gallagher who if he doesn’t break in for normal soccer this season, will most likely push to go away. After which different midfielders akin to Ruben Loftus-Cheek, who’s extra now used as a utility back-up, and Mason Mount, who’s performed as an attacker anyway.
So if you have a look at it, you solely have Mateo Kovacic as the one midfielder whose future appears strong at Chelsea.
Because of this we’re seeing experiences of Chelsea pushing so laborious to signal Frenkie De Jong from Barcelona, as a result of Tuchel and the membership, are constructing for the way forward for their midfield.
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I imagine we can even see a reignition of Thomas Tuchel’s most important midfield goal Declan Rice come once more subsequent summer season, if not earlier than, and it has a really feel that Tuchel is taking a look at him and De Jong to switch Jorginho and Kante.
If you happen to heard Matt Regulation of The Telegraph speaking on the London is Blue Podcast right now, you’d have heard him trace at this.
Regulation says that Chelsea “have checked on sure midfielders this Summer time however they aren’t obtainable so these gamers might get placed on the backburner till subsequent Summer time.” He says we’ve got tried issues that haven’t been reported within the press. Fascinating certainly.
This factors in direction of Chelsea engaged on the now, for the longer term. I’m positive that Tuchel is having nightmares over what occurred this summer season dropping two key defenders Antonio Rudiger and Andreas Christensen as free brokers, and he doesn’t wish to see the identical factor occur subsequent summer season with two key midfielders.
