I mean I'm sure we're all desperate for Caicedo to fail, but for me he was pretty comfortably the second best DM in the league last year behind only Rodri, despite only being 21. He'll be very good for them, unfortunately. Whether collectively Chelsea can get their shit together enough for it to matter is a different thing entirely.
You can sort of see what Chelsea are attempting to do with the insane volume of promising youngsters bought, but for £1billion they really ought to have brought in a couple of proven top-level performers in their peak years, and Nkunku aside maybe, I can't see that they've signed any?? Sterling maybe, though I'd argue he's definitely post-peak now.
I mean Gusto, Colwill, Chukwuemeka, Jackson, Madueke, Burtsow, Mudryk all turned out for them today, and as promising/exciting as some of them may be they're not proven at the very top level are they? Their squad is insanely young/inexperienced now, so it's the type of situation where the manager will need lots of patience and space to do his thing, but he's not gonna get that is he? It's probably the worst environment for young players, with a trigger-happy owner, an enormous level of immediate expectation and relatively few senior pros to guide the team through any tough patches.
