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For more reasons than one, the next couple of months is going to be extremely important to Chelsea Football Club. Their pillars from the Mourinho era, the likes of Lampard, Drogba, Essien and Terry, are no longer spring chickens and the club needs new go-to men. The purchase of Fernando Torres is likely to influence a lot of the strategy on the drawing board, and therein lies the problem (and the great scope, admittedly).
Chelsea are blessed to have two of Europe’s most phenomenal strikers in form of Didier Drogba and Fernando Torres. If I were the manager, I would look to play both of them together in my first XI. Another huge strength of Chelsea’s is their rampant wing backs. Ashley Cole is world class, and I would still put my faith in the marauding Jose Bosingwa and give him a good run of games. It doesn’t get easier than having to defend alongside Petr Cech, John Terry, Alex (or David Luiz) and Ashley Cole, plus Bosingwa can be a real handful for the opposition full back.
Are they the solution for the MISSING LINK?
In my midfield, I will still go for the guile of Lampard, the legs of Ramires and the meat of Essien. The missing link is the versatile dribbler with the ability to play the final pass. In world football today, the likes of Luka Modric, Kaka, Mario Goetze, Samir Nasri, Alexis Sanchez and Douglas Costa can be the solution for that missing link. Considering the financial might of Roman Abramovic, I will go all out to nab one of Douglas Costa, Alexis Sanchez and Mario Goetze as a long term buy. And to fill the gap right away, I will vie for Modric, Kaka or Nasri. With two such creative players in my line-up, I will then look to bring back Daniel Sturridge and hold onto Anelka. The latter with his experience can be a valuable squad member, waiting in the wings in case one of the main 2 gets injured. With a bench of Zhirkov, Mikel, Benayoun, Alex and Ivanovic, you must feel this Chelsea squad will have the weaponry as well as the gun powder to put serious pressure on not just Manchester United in the league, but Barcelona in Europe too.
However , before all this speculations and strategies begin, Chelsea must ensure that they find a suitable manager who can efficiently guide them to domestic and preferably European glory. With, Turkey’s draw against Belgium last night, Guus Hiddink’s position in the Turkish National team remains in doubt. This, however, is a good omen for Chelsea and provided if Roman can lure him back , we could be in for one very good season at Stamford Bridge. However, there are talks of appointing Hiddink as the Director of Football at Chelsea and hence in that case Chelsea’s options for a manager will remain limited to the likes of Hary Redknapp and Mark Hughes.
It is quite safe to say that Chelsea have their work cut out ahead of the new season and certainly the road ahead seems to be a grueling one. Glory or an EPIC disaster? Well, it certainly gonna be a riveting watch
Edited by Debjit Lahiri
