Chelsea used to have a team of untouchables. Now the list is short: ✅ Thiago Silva ✅ Reece James ✅ Raheem Sterling ✅ N’Golo Kante...? Who else will step up, asks SJohnsonSport
manager earlier this month, Thomas Tuchel was asked how many of the senior players are playing at their best level.
“Not a lot at the moment,” he replied. “Obviously they are underperforming individually. A lack of determination, a lack of hunger and a lack of intensity to actually do the things that we need at the highest level. We are clearly not where we want to be.
Tuchel’s answer brought back memories of Jose Mourinho when he talked about the number of untouchables in his first team at Stamford Bridge. He named nine during a press conference in December 2006. On that esteemed list were John Terry, Frank Lampard, Didier Drogba, Claude Makelele, Michael Ballack, Michael Essien, Ashley Cole, Ricardo Carvalho and Petr Cech. The only positions the Portuguese manager said he wouldn’t include were right-back and, notably, striker, despite the £30.
It got one thinking. Based on Chelsea’s start to the 2022-23 campaign, how many of this squad could be granted the same status as its predecessors? This is a more challenging task than it seems because it is hard to ignore the performances and contributions people have made for the club in previous years. But it is a struggle to pick more than four names right now.
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