World Cup 2018: 5 potential members of Belgium’s next golden generation

#2 Charly Musonda (Chelsea)

Musonda - spent part of last season on loan in Scotland

Musonda is somewhat of a mercurial talent. It is also fair to say that his career is at a crossroads.

His talent is clear for all to see. He is a tricky winger with pace, skill, and an eye for goal. But they say that sport is 5 percent skill, and 95 percent mind set. It’s that 95 percent that seems to be letting him down at this time, as suggested by the last two years of his career.

At the start of 2016, he joined Real Betis on loan, and impressed enough in his six months there to have that loan extended for the 2016-17 season. However things went backwards in the first six months of that spell, and he made just eight league appearances, before that loan was terminated in January.

He started the 2017-18 season at Chelsea, and was very much a fringe player there, but scored his first goal for the Blues in a League Cup tie with Nottingham Forest.

He joined Celtic on an 18-month loan in January, but once again, that didn’t work out, and it was cancelled just six months in. He has the talent to go all the way to the top, that’s why Chelsea have kept him, but he has to start showing he wants it.