One former Chelsea striker has been explaining this week why the current Blues owners will be laughing their heads off at everyone right now.
Chelsea have gone from being a very toxic club with the fan base in depression, to now being called serious title contenders this season being just two points behind Liverpool in second place in the league, even if the head coach Enzo Maresca wants to keep playing that down.
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Former striker Chris Sutton has been praising the club this week, and he believes that they are doing so well right now that the owners will now be laughing at all their previous critics, and there were many.
Sutton speaks
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Sutton in his playing days for Chelsea
“Do they have the squad strength and depth? Absolutely. They’re able to play two different teams, one in the Conference League and one in the Premier League. That’s a bit of a luxury. I suppose people will look at their team and think, do they have the necessary experience? Maybe not, but they have the quality, they have young, hungry, talented players who are on a roll,” says Sutton, pulling out an old famous quote from one of his predecessors as a BBC pundit.
“Someone once famously said, you don’t win things with kids. Well, they are a really talented group. And when you look at the likes of Man City falling away, you look at Arsenal and I always think there’s more to come from them. Liverpool and Arne Slot have surprised everybody and I think they have because of the change of manager and they’ve been excellent.
“But Chelsea are in there. They changed their manager too and they’ve been excellent. The consistency was coming under (Mauricio) Pochettino at the end of last season but Maresca’s come in and he’s shown that he’s got an iron fist. He made that decision over Raheem Sterling early on for which he took a fair bit of flack, but he’s been proven right. They have a brand of football, a style of play with the likes of Cole Palmer and (Noni) Madueke. They’re on absolute fire and they’ve got a lovely balance to the team so I’m not going to rule Chelsea out as non-challengers,” Sutton states firmly, leaving Tribal Football with one final question; were Todd Boehly and Eghbali right all along?
“I think that’s a really interesting point. They were taking all sorts of flak, but maybe, just maybe, there was a method in the madness and they’re laughing their heads off at us all. The whole plan did seem excessive, you know? There was nothing particularly new about buying young players and develop them, a lot of clubs have been doing that. In fact, most clubs try and do it that way. It was just the nature of the spending. We’ve never seen anything like it, but yeah, they’re probably laughing their heads off right.”
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Chris Sutton working as a pundit for the BBC. (Photo: Richard Sellerrs/Sportsphoto/Allstar via Getty))
Behad Eghbali at a Chelsea match.