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Myself and plenty of others have felt Chelsea
will have a really good season, and I still

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believe that.
A lot of that is on the back of not having

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European football, having a new manager,
the front three that they've got.

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But losing Enzo Fernandez, who for me over the
last sort of two or three years has been one

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of the, the big players for Chelsea.

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They've always had five or six really top
players, but not a lot maybe around that.

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And, they've let one of them
go, and he's gone to Man City.

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It's a huge fee.
Of course, it is.

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But it's, Yeah, they look a lot stronger now.

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I would say Manchester City, and I would say
they're gonna be the biggest challengers to,

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Arsenal right now.
When, when Arsenal, began the season, it

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looked, Jamie, like it was gonna be them.

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City haemorrhaged players.

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Now you look at City's squad, do you
think, actually, that's a proper squad now?

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Oh, well, it, it is a really good squad.

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There's, there's no doubt about that.

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There's been a lot of turnover in players,
even when Pep was there over the last sort of

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12 months or so.

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But, I think losing Rodri was a big thing, and
I thought it'd be really difficult to recover

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from that.
But I suppose if you said at the end of last

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season they would bring in Elliott Anderson
and, and Fernandez, you'd say, "Okay, that's a,

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that's a top midfield.
They've paid top dollar for it, so it should be.

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But, now I, I think that gives them the
greatest chance besides any other team in, in

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the Premier League of being the, the main
challengers and maybe the only team who can

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really wrestle this title from Arsenal.

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How do you think it leaves Chelsea, Jamie?

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Well, it depends what they do.

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I know there's a few hours.
I think there's been bids going, hasn't there,

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for Lemine Camara, I think
Kone from Roma as well.

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So they, they, they're gonna
bring someone in, I would imagine.

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Now, they Those two players, I think, are
slightly different to, Fernandez, who was more

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of a number eight, more
of an attacker, got goals.

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Whereas they feel like more defensive type
of players, a little bit like Caicedo.

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But maybe that's the way the manager
wants to go, and he wants two types

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of those players in midfield.

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We're still learning about how he wants
to go about his, his team, Xabi Alonso.

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So, listen, it's a, it's a big figure for them
to bring in, but I'm sure that they'll spend

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it and, and look to go again, Chelsea.

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But, but they've lost a really good player
there.