Bashir Humphreys has ended up playing a lot of preseason minutes for new manager Mauricio Pochettino due to injuries at the back, and he’s really impressed.
His interview on the Chelsea website reveals that it’s not just the games that have been tough – training sounds like hell:
“This is the first pre-season I have done fully, for one reason or another. I always heard things about what pre-season was like, like you do this and that. But this is it,” Humpreys said in quotes on the club’s official website.
“In terms of getting bullied in training everyday, it is a mental challenge,’ he said. ‘Especially within the group, to keep that mentality strong because no one really wants to do it. It isn’t stimulating, it’s not fun.
“Like hurt ball [also known as murder ball] is so hard, harder than the running we’re doing but it is more fun and stimulating. Yesterday, doing box-to-box running, it was a mental challenge. In that way, this is real. I am finding it so, so tough.”
While we don’t want anyone to get hurt (and we’re sure this is all being played up a little for the media) we have to admit this sort of thing really works on us. We saw players looking far too comfortable and pitifully unfit last season, and whipping them into shape is the least we expect from the new coaching staff, especially given their noted expertise in fitness and sport science.
Bash will be learning a lot here, and while he will probably go on loan once the tour is done, whichever club he joins, it looks like he will be finding himself fit and ready for the new season.
Hi really want to go and work in Canada
I like it hard. Premiership is harder than what you think.
Thats the fact
He should stay ans be part of the team. He will learn a lot from Seniors like Thiago, Trevor, James and Chilwell. Him going on loan will not be bad but he should stay.
They will be better that last season.
It sounds like he don’t know what it takes to be a winner. When the legs are gone and you have to find that metal strength to make that vital challenge and win it. That’s what it takes to be CHAMPIONS AGAIN. So you better love it or leave it
You’ve got a very misleading headline on this.
Whatever that is happening in that pit should be accepted the club need upright minded players but loaning the young lad will not help the club for now
To become champion again in the premiership require the fittest of the fittest in other to lift the trophy.
Potechinno’s very impressive and we are expecting a lot from him. Hongera
Potechinno’s very impressive and we are expecting a lot from him. Let him sign Mbampe .Hongera
To be a winner you need to work harder