Despite the final bad loss of the Fa Cup, Frank Lampard led the Bleus to the 4 most sensible and Champions League in a first season in command.
Lampard had minimal expectations this season to succeed in the four most sensitive.
Chelsea coaches of yesteryear were fired for not earning a league name or being inspired by the Champions League.
On the other hand, the prohibition of movements and the loss of Eden Hazard meant that Lampard’s first season would be a good fortune if he were among the four most sensible.
But the warmth is now on.
Chelsea has already taken significant steps for Timo Werner and Hakim Ziyech at Stamford Bridge, which is doubly impressive, as the pair cost less than 90 million pounds together.
Kai Havertz, one of Europe’s most coveted young musicians, is also expected to be enrolled in a hype in the near future.
As SunSport’s idea earlier this week, those 3 players are all flexible strikers who open all sorts of odds for Lampard next season.
But, and it’s still very important, what about the defense?
Chelsea’s defensive unrest has been documented this season and Lampard has never discovered a solution, with a new left-back and at least a central a must.
The 4 central ones – Antonio Rudiger, Kurt Zouma, Andreas Christensen and Fikayo Tomori – have primary flaws, lack leadership and are consistent in their inconsistency.
Neither left-back Marcos Alonso nor Emerson Palmieri can and both have connected to the exit door.
Let’s not even start with the doorman, Kepa must be replaced, and with a great monetary loss.
The final fa Cup defeat once back revealed Chelsea’s porous defence and lack of leaders.
But will Chelsea get players in the unique positions, and will it stay in line with the FFP, once Werner, Ziyech and Havertz’s moves are over?
Chelsea has teamed up with a lot of defenders to solve those problems.
Although top recruits are needed, it will be difficult to pay for Kalodou Koulibaly or José Giménez, as well as for a left-backer like Ben Chilwell.
Some enthusiasts have even introduced the scene to sell N’Golo Kante, a valid world-class talent, one of those in his position, to fund moves for other players.
It would also be a big mistake.
Here are nine players, six centre-backs and three left-sided players, who have not yet been on Chelsea’s radar, can be a little cheaper and more cunning for the Blues.
He plays for the extremely obsolete Clarets, so there will be “not smart enough for Chelsea” calls.
But the difference between Tarkowski and Christensen is that one watches the game while being useless and error-prone, the other is simple and the most sensible point in genuine defensive skills such as scoring, playing and winning their non-public battles opposed to the aggressor.
Possibly not the most productive with the ball and, at 27, some might think it’s too old for Chelsea to invest.
But Gary Cahill joined the Blues at one age and had the same questions about his ability to take the plunge. We all know how it happened.
If you’re still not convinced, look at the statistics.
Tarkowski placed in the top five in the Premier League in air duels won, clearances and game-lined blocks.
It is relatively low, measuring 6 feet and 1 inch, but has won nearly 75% of its air battles during the season and has been a risk in the opposition area with two goals and two assists.
Of course, there would be a tax for an English player, especially with Harry Maguire’s exorbitant fees last summer, but if Chelsea can negotiate a fair fare, it would be the investment.
Bought for 19 million pounds just two summers ago, the price of Turkish alien has at least doubled in this period.
But rightly so.
The former Freiburgian star is a tough defense with all the characteristics to be a dominant force in the level.
Don’t judge him for his behaviour after the blockade, his form suffered like the rest of the Leicester team, but Soyuncu had a brilliant season before that.
He is deceptively fast, strong, incredibly owner and vocal in the back.
Leicester sold Harry Maguire for 80 million pounds last summer and his loss was not felt at all at King Power.
The biggest logo that opposes Soyuncu is his temperament, however, it’s anything he hopes to grow.
However, foxes are in no hurry to sell and would get really high costs.
Football is a team game and being a central defender is having a complementary spouse by your side.
Think of some of the big defensive couples in the Premier League – Tony Adams and Sol Campbel, John Terry and Ricardo Carvalho, Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic – and their contrasting skills.
Zouma is arguably Chelsea’s number one central defender, following the alarming fall in Rudiger’s form.
The harsh Frenchman has many strengths, but two apparent weaknesses: his leadership and his organizational capacity.
Dunk’s two biggest attributes are precisely the two features that lack Zouma’s gameplay.
Again, many other people will say ‘not smart enough for Chelsea’. But the same other people want to think about Gary Cahill and have an effect on him at the club, even after Terry’s departure.
It’s amazing that no other club has been connected to O’Connell.
But things far less elegant than Chris Wilder’s swords.
O’Connell has one thing no one else has: a left foot based on herbs.
The left-wing centres are an absolute rarity in the Premier League and Chelsea’s 4 centrals have a top preference for playing on the right side.
But signing a player just for that would be ridiculous; Fortunately, O’Connell is a very good advocate with a wide diversity of passes, wonderful physical attributes and just entered his heyday.
Sheffield United also plays an offensive style, so his performances are not overtaken through the game on a team that finds himself deep in his own half.
Chelsea knows firsthand how dominant it can be.
In this surprise defeat at Bramall Lane, O’Connell surely dominated Tammy Abraham, won all air duels and pocketed Chelsea No. 9.
He was so smart that day, and Abraham so bad, that the striker hasn’t started a match since.
The youngest plant on this list and also the one that has the maximum to prove.
The foreigner of France U-21 had a brilliant first season at Claret and Azul, but he did not depend on that this last campaign.
The brilliant one-week performances were scored through full clangers seven days later.
Among the players in this group, it is the one who has the maximum potential, given his age, his maximum physical profile and his technical talent.
But it’s the riskiest option, given its overall lack of consistency.
Hammers teammate Declan Rice appears to be Chelsea’s main target: Diop would be less expensive and has reveled much more recently as Premier League central defender.
The Polish power station is getting stronger this season.
It was terrible the first few months, but Ralph Hassenhuttl knocked him down.
Bednarek has a giant length and a tough competitor.
He fails when he’s in possession of the ball and takes some other leap into this branch to live up to it.
But an advocate’s master plan is there for everyone to see, and he has plenty of time to improve.
Leicester’s defence Ben Chilwell is the first target.
However, from that moment on, Chilwell’s transparent merit over Everton’s left-back is his age: at 23, he is 4 years younger.
Former Barcelona Digne is great for Chilwell offensively and defensively.
It is much more consistent and would be MUCH less.
Only Liverpool star Andy Robertson can boast of being a left-back in the Premier League than the Frenchman.
And Trent Alexander-Arnold, a teammate of the Robertsons and Reds, had more assists as defenders than Digne’s seven.
It has the speed to pass up and down, is aware of defense and in individual situations.
It also has facilities and dead ball situations.
Chilwell has the chance of a player bigger than Digne, but that may never happen.
Is it worth going out?
The Algerian is well known on those shores, but he is a very competent player in a smart Gladbach team.
Even at his best, Bensebaini is not an elite left-back, possibly still an elite.
But where Chelsea lately have two imperfect left sides with styles very similar to alonso and Emerson’s, Bensebaini’s arrival would benefit.
The ex-defense of the Rennes is much more of Azpilicueta’s taste, a defensive stopper capable of enclosing the extremes.
If Lampard stayed like Alonso and got on Bensebaini, he could simply rotate the pair, just like he does with Azpi and Reece James, to offer other answers to the opposition.
Alonso may play in matches where Chelsea face groups they like to deepen, while Bensebaini can take that position when Chelsea wants to be more defensive away from home or against the best.
It’s perfect, but there’s no greater shortage in world football than elite sides.
The Dutchman has a potential.
He is already making waves in the Eredivisie and has risen to the Dutch national team.
Ajax and Paris Saint-Germain are connected to a player that many expect to be one of the most productive in the coming years.
At his age, Wijndal has a lot of everything.
It is incredibly fast and absolutely comfortable to have the ball on your feet, falling quite in the midfield.
His overlapping game has provided 8 assists this season, thanks to an exact first crossing.
Wijndal has the team to become a wonderful player.
However, players your age can make mistakes and Wijndal has some flaws in his game.
He’s too aggressive, which can pay dividends, but when he’s wrong or wrong, a shot leaves the rest of his team exposed.
There were some examples where his lack of concentration and slow reaction time allowed the guy he scored to quit and have a chance to score.
But if Chelsea need to follow the trail of young people and potential, it turns out that Wijndal has as many as any left-back in world football.
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