Quote from: Inwestour on Today at 07:39:51 AM

Quote from: JeffBrad12 on Today at 02:32:26 AM

Your wish seems unreal after Chelsea's horrific performance against Manchester City's young squad. I'd rather take 10th as the possible for Chelsea to finish in the current season. Chelsea played poorly in the pre-season games. The match against City showed Chelsea's weak defense and poor form. These are their main problems.
They never really replaced Thiago Silva and Rüdiger. Signing an elite CB needs to be their priority this window; none of the ones they have are good enough.

Also, Chelsea conceded four goals against Manchester City. This was due to their failure to transition back to defense after losing the ball in the buildup. This is a drawback of the inverted fullback system.

Let's make an adjustment for the fact that it was a friendly match, to judge Chelsea's form when the official championship starts, but it seems to me quite obvious that Chelsea will not be a competitive team in the Premier League, they have too many problematic positions and there are many questions about both defense and attack. Most likely, these teams will solve different problems in the new season, City will lead the table, and Chelsea will try with all their might to be closer to the Champions League zone.

Adjusting to the facts in friendly matches of other teams might be easy, but in my opinion not with Chelsea at the moment where it would be difficult for us to see the match as just a friendly match, Manchester City in that match fielded a young squad which they probably won't part of the main squad next season, but in contrast to Chelsea, it might be difficult not to say that they did not field their main players in the friendly match because the majority of Chelsea current players are young players, in the last few friendly matches, Chelsea suffered defeats and I think we still It takes time for us to see Chelsea develop under Maresca and also their current young squad, ranking in the top 10 next season will be very realistic for them to get if we look at the comparison of strength and performance they have with their rival teams.