It wasn’t so long ago, when Chelsea Noni Madueke winger acted nonchalant, rejecting reigning questions suggesting that he didn’t even know what it was.
The incessant questions surrounding the hopes of the blues to win the Premier League are undoubtedly gross, but these are days that supporters wish to have impregnated in 2025.
A 3-1 defeat to Manchester City Saturday means that the Enzo Maresca team won only one of their seven previous league outings. They are in sixth place in the table and barely on the right track to rely on the only indifferent season of Mauricio Pocsettino at the club.
The Blues, protagonists of the recent transfer windows, have so far resisted of splashing the money in order to upgrade on an already inflated team. However, their disappearance during the last month exhibited a bad team building, with a higher staff necessary to put the Maresca team on the right track.
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Pocket Abandoned Robert Sanchez in favor of Djordje Petrovic last season, but Maresca quickly placed his faith in Spanish after succeeding the Argentinian.
Sanchez worked like the number one in Chelsea this term, with most of the start of Filip Jorgensen to arrive in cup competitions after joining the Villarreal club in summer.
Brighton’s former goalkeeper produced some excellent performances between the sticks, but he is never too far from a blatant error. According to Sky SportsSanchez committed a spouse in the championship of five errors leading to goals this season, with his equal in this regard, Arijanet Muric of Ipswich, losing his number one status against Christian Walton in Portman Road.
While Maresca suggested that there will be no drastic changes between the sticks despite the horrible watch from Sanchez to Etihad, the Italian admitted that his goalkeeper plays “far, far,” wish.
It is clear that Spanish is not the number one of the Premier League, but Jorgensen has not yet indicated that it would be a separate upgrade. Maybe an external addition is required.
After joining the club in summer, Chelsea chose to lend Renato Veiga to Juventus for the rest of the season. There is no option or obligation to buy outright, but it would not be a surprise to see the merchants of Clearlake move the former defender of Basel per summer.
Veiga is an interesting profile that offered a certain value in the cutting competitions, but Maresca did not trust him in the Premier League. Marc Cucurella started 19 of the 23 Chelsea championship games, Veiga accumulating only 181 minutes in competition.
With Ben Chilwell out of the grid under the Maresca watch, the Blues suddenly have a shortage of options on the left back. Unless Chilwell suddenly scares himself into the manager’s thought, the central defender of first choice Levi Colwill will work as the sub-study of Cucurella.
Chelsea would run out of position by not giving a replacement of Veiga.
Given the large number of players who have joined the club in recent years, it is remarkable that Chelsea is deprived of depth to a few positions.
The midfielder was a distinct position of force during their prechristmas pump, but the persistent concerns of Romeo Lavia mean that Maresca’s favorite options were put in the ground. No chelsea player has played Premier league Minutes this season that Moises Caicedo (2,035).
The boss insisted that he does not require reinforcements of midfielders, but Kiernan Dewsbury -Hall, Carney Chukwuemeka and Cesare Casadei – Chelsea’s current depth options – could all leave the club before the deadline.
With Lavia ready for weeks on the sidelines due to muscle injury, the blues cannot allow all their midfielder options to book. However, it is clear that Maresca does not trust the people mentioned to perform in the Premier League – not even the old Leicester Pal Dewsbury -Hall.
It is difficult to determine what Alejandro Garnacho would bring to this Chelsea team that they did not already have. He is a more disposed shooter than the large current options of Maresca, but is he a player that the blues should unleash 60 million pounds sterling given their needs elsewhere?
If they strengthen their front line, they must focus on acquiring a ruthless objective. When we think of the best Chelsea teams of the contemporary era, they were led by a advance with a clinical touch. Think of Didier Drogba and Diego Costa. Good luck to sign a player of this ilk in the last days of the window, but Nicolas Jackson begins to show that he may not have to be the main man of the club.
Jackson scored 14 goals in the Premier League last season, but underperform his expected goals of 4.6 – per Fbref. The promise presented in the last mandate was built during the first half of 2024/25, but the former striker of Villarreal is in the middle of a drought to which he rarely seems to escape. He did not score in eight games.
The 23 -year -old should not be completely abandoned, but Chelsea must consider reducing their losses with the unfortunate Christopher Nkunku and acquire a reliable goal to reduce Jackson’s burden.
