The season in not even finished and the media and the fans are already starting to speculate how the teams could look like next season.
Here are some of my thought’s about how Chelsea could line up next season.
I personally don’t think that Chelsea will change very much, we have one of the best if not the best squads in the world at the moment. We have the perfect combination of youth and experience and if you look at the Chelsea team you see that only four players are older than 30. Next Season that maybe will be even less because the likes of Drogba will retire, and Cech will maybe leave. Also John Terry still hasn’t got a new Contract (I’m sure he will get the contract until the end of the season).
But are there other players who could leave in the summer? I think there are really only Cech and Mikel who could possible leave.
Are there players to come in? Yes, I think there will be some new faces next season. Chelsea will need a second Goalkeeper, maybe a defender (Should take one from youth than buying someone), a defensive midfielder (Should also take from youth or someone who is on loan), 1-2 offensive midfielder’s and a striker.
Many Chelsea fans would love us to buy Varane from Real Madrid or Pogba from Juventus, but I think that we should give our youth a chance. We have the best youth teams in England and we are not giving them enough exposure in the first team.
Goalkeeper: Cech is likely to leave in the summer as he wants to play first team football and Courtois is Chelsea’s number one. But who could replace Petr Cech? Chelsea would have only Courtois and Blackman between the sticks and it would be wise to buy a good, cheap Goalkeeper like Schwarzer to be our second choice.
Defenders: If everyone from the defence stays than Chelsea will have, Terry, Cahill, Zouma (CB), Ivanovic (RB&CB), Azpilicueta (RB&LB) and Felipe Luis (LB). There is also Nathan Ake and Andreas Christensen from our youth so that means 8 defenders would be in the Chelsea squad if everyone stays and 8 defenders is enough.
Defensive Midfielder: If Mikel leaves someone will I think someone from our youth should replace him. My favourites to do this would be Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Nathaniel Chalobah or Marco Van Ginkel who is on loan at AC Milan. I would prefer to see Loftus-Cheek as a replacement for Mikel, when I see him playing I always see Yaya Toure and Matic in one.
Attacking Midfielders: At the moment Chelsea has only 4 offensiv midfielders, Hazard, Oscar, Willian and new signing Cuadrado. Normaly there should be 5-6 players for the positions LW, OM, RW. So Chelsea would need to bring 1 or 2 players into the squad, but the question is who? Will it be someone who is on loan (Atsu, T.Hazard, Traore, Piazon, Moses, Salah) or will it be someone from the youth (Brown, C.Musonda, Boga, Baker) or will Chelsea buy someone? I would prefer to take one from the youth and one who is on loan, and my favourites would be Atsu who is on loan at Everton and Isaiah Brown.
Striker: Didier Drogba, the Legend, every Chelsea fan loves him but he is 36 years old, and next season he will be 37. In the last few games we could see he has what he was before, the only thing he still has is his strength. The best thing for Drogba and Chelsea would be to retire at the end of the season and make the place free for a new youth player. In my opinon, and I know 90% of the Chelsea fans think the same way, Patrick Bamford should be in the squad. He could be the perfect replacement for the legend, Drogba. Chelsea would then have Diego Costa, Loic Remy and Patrick Bamford, what more do you want??
Let us know what you think, and who should Chelsea buy or who should we let leave and what should change.
