Myself and plenty of others have felt Chelsea will have a really good season, and I still
believe that. A lot of that is on the back of not having
European football, having a new manager, the front three that they've got.
But losing Enzo Fernandez, who for me over the last sort of two or three years has been one
of the, the big players for Chelsea.
They've always had five or six really top players, but not a lot maybe around that.
And, they've let one of them go, and he's gone to Man City.
It's a huge fee. Of course, it is.
But it's, Yeah, they look a lot stronger now.
I would say Manchester City, and I would say they're gonna be the biggest challengers to,
Arsenal right now. When, when Arsenal, began the season, it
looked, Jamie, like it was gonna be them.
City haemorrhaged players.
Now you look at City's squad, do you think, actually, that's a proper squad now?
Oh, well, it, it is a really good squad.
There's, there's no doubt about that.
There's been a lot of turnover in players, even when Pep was there over the last sort of
12 months or so.
But, I think losing Rodri was a big thing, and I thought it'd be really difficult to recover
from that. But I suppose if you said at the end of last
season they would bring in Elliott Anderson and, and Fernandez, you'd say, "Okay, that's a,
that's a top midfield. They've paid top dollar for it, so it should be.
But, now I, I think that gives them the greatest chance besides any other team in, in
the Premier League of being the, the main challengers and maybe the only team who can
really wrestle this title from Arsenal.
How do you think it leaves Chelsea, Jamie?
Well, it depends what they do.
I know there's a few hours. I think there's been bids going, hasn't there,
for Lemine Camara, I think Kone from Roma as well.
So they, they, they're gonna bring someone in, I would imagine.
Now, they Those two players, I think, are slightly different to, Fernandez, who was more
of a number eight, more of an attacker, got goals.
Whereas they feel like more defensive type of players, a little bit like Caicedo.
But maybe that's the way the manager wants to go, and he wants two types
of those players in midfield.
We're still learning about how he wants to go about his, his team, Xabi Alonso.
So, listen, it's a, it's a big figure for them to bring in, but I'm sure that they'll spend
it and, and look to go again, Chelsea.
But, but they've lost a really good player there.