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Charting a blueprint: recasting Chelsea’s one billion spending spree (1/5)
#1 SQUAD BUILDING SQUAD BUILDING 101 Naming a team on the week end is at the interface of: training and squad building.Get players to play together, and these players are remunerated for their exploits (including foul throw-ins). Every club has a spending limit, if not absolute, in terms of how much they can spend in…
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Charting a Blueprint: recasting Chelsea’s one billion spending spree.
Introduction to a 5-part series Charting a blueprint: let’s recast Chelsea’s one billion spent since the takeover. The angle of this take will be at the intersection of squad building, player analysis and coaching. Player analysis: the set of skills to compete in games, how good is it, does it align with the demands of…
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Lesley (parler): Ugochukwu vs Newcastle
Chelsea Twitter decided to have one, in the hugely frustrating 4-1 defeat to Newcastle. 8 goals in 2 games before the International break seemed to give postive signs that Chelsea was finally on the right track, mostly in terms of ability to put the ball into the net. However, the team is struggling to stay…
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✨👀 Striker Focus: George ILENIKHENA
Gifted Expertise Offers Remarkable Guidance Efficiently That shot ended up in the Atlantic Ocean What would’ve destroyed a 16 year old striker’s confidence forever (losing 1-0) Did not deter George Ilenikhena, who scored *that* goal moments later First time, top bins, curtains. Thank you very much. One of the evergreen truths of scouting (or cheat…
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Defending 1v1 with Fikayo TOMORI
was roast dinners man madders the main man This week, a clip of a training practice England worked on during the international break went rounds, involving Italian Serie A champion Fikayo Tomori and on form “roast dinner” entertainer James Maddison. Let’s have a closer look at some of the key features of Tomori’s defensive sequence…
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Alex MATOS: Swashbuckling Midfielder ⚔️🪨
📼 Manchester City’s EDS vs Chelsea U21s – September 22, 2023 Chelsea signed Alex MATOS (2004) from Norwich City where he joined from Luton in 2016 “forward who can play all across the front” in his own words, when signing his professionnal contract in October 2021 He’s been deployed in midfield 5212 for Chelsea’s PL2…
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PL2: Southampton U21s – Reading U21s (6-0)
Premier League 2 is now an unique 26-team seed. What could possibly go wrong Premier League 2 is now an unique 26-team seed, with no relegation. It remains to be seen how much context it will bring as the last step before first team matters, and whether the amount of games without much at stake…
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Conor GALLAGHER: Baller Extraordinaire
more like conor galla8her amarite “u rate that bum gallagher” BUT WHY ? Conor Gallagher has been on the receiving end of criticism from large and lousy sections of the fanbase. Possibly for what he represents as Chelsea academy product, which is what it is, id est not something to pay attention to, let alone…
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Introducing… The POCH BOX 📦
My #Newsletter for 2023/24 Introducing… the POCH BOX I have the project to create a newsletter with one particular angle: the coaching and football-related material that Chelsea is going to post on social media. Clubs obviously don’t lift the lid on core training practices, but there’s always a certain amount of content we can see,…
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What Went Wrong for Thomas Tuchel at Chelsea?
Last year, I published the biggest interactive article I’ve ever produced (and probably will), covering the second spell of Tuchel’s time in charge of Chelsea. I like to brainstorm using mindmaps, and I thought it was a good idea to allow the reader to jump in and out, hence why I used the PREZI platform.…
Sébastien Chapuis 