Solly March for me - if only to prove the doubters wrong .... AGAIN.
Oooh, I forgot about WBG. I really, really want him to succeed. We've had to listen to thousands of plastic overseas (and domestic) Blues droning on endlessly about Cucurella, and Potter & his team, and Caicedo, and Colwill. It would be a delight if Billy had an outstanding season and made a mockery of the £8 million we paid for him. I want to see Chelsea fans FUMING again.Billy Gilmour. Sky is the limit for him, imho.
Welbeck, one of the greatest striker to ever player for the club. Why isnt he in your list?So many to pick from of course, but for me.......
1. Adringa (underestimated, had a better loan season than Mitoma at USG)
2. Joao Pedro (considering what RDZ has done to Mitoma and March, could be incredible for us)
3. Ferguson (a whole season of this fella now!)
Honerable mentions...
Buonanotte, Enciso, Sarmiento, Dahoud, Mitoma, Moder, Verbruggen, Gilmour
One of football life's great pleasures.I want to see Chelsea fans FUMING again.
I don't know: it's not that pleasurable at the moment, knowing that at some point they will stump up the right price for Caicedo and we will have to watch the inevitable nauseating reveal where he bullshits in the same way that Cucurella did about how much he's dreamed of playing for Chelsea (rather like when he once told the Ecuadorean media that he'd always wanted to play for Manchester United, and similar to that time in January when his lifelong aspirations of lining up alongside Granit Xhaka and Rob Holding were revealed). Also, the whole Colwill thing. I've always loathed Chelsea fans. They attract complete idiots like no other club, they really do.One of football life's great pleasures.
The gift that keeps on giving.
I am more thinking that although last season was very successful, we had a fair bit of disruption, we lost 2 key players in Bissouma and Cucurella, had a change of head coach after 6 games, then Mwepu forced to retire, sold our leading scorer in January, had to rest Caicedo after Arsenal interest, gave a little holiday to Mac Allister for winning the world cup, 1st choice keeper bailed out, regular apologies from PGMOL for getting major decisions wrong, and suffered an extra time and penalty defeat that was exhausting and demoralising in the congested end of season.
I am excited to see what De Zerbi can do with this bunch without most of that shit going on, but hopefully just a lot of extra cup games to contend with.
It felt like we got the rough end of shit officiating last season, I am hoping for at least greater equality of shit officiating.Don't think for one second that the refereeing will suddenly improve. Or that other clubs won't be looking at our manager. On the plus side, the European Super League legends of the EPL all have managers who are either well set (City, Arsenal, Liverpool, United), or new enough that they won't be firing them any time soon (Spurs). I mean, there's always comedy club Chelsea, but surely even Mr Toad won't come looking at Brighton managers again this side of 2030.
I'll probably confidently state that he's past it 2-3 times next season, and be proven wrong every time. Evergreen.Groß proving all the "we've outgrown him" doubters wrong. Again.
Knowing you’re going to do this, and be proven wrong, might it be prudent to not do it in the first place?I'll probably confidently state that he's past it 2-3 times next season, and be proven wrong every time. Evergreen.
You'd think wouldn't you? But many of us are like moths to a flame.Knowing you’re going to do this, and be proven wrong, might it be prudent to not do it in the first place?