by PrezIke » Sun Aug 17, 2014 2:07 pm
what's funny about seemingly everyone in the media picking chelsea is that i keep hearing that we are effectively the same team while they got SO much better, they beat us twice, and we barely won.
interesting, because even forgetting about the signings we did make, several of our key players were injured for significant portions of last season. i believe i read last season that our primary first eleven were barely on the pitch together for a few matches.
kun, komps, nasri, silva were all out for big parts last season. after arsenal i think we were most affected by injuries.
if we had them together more i think we would have been further ahead of our rivals in the table. if we can keep our players fit this season, we will automatically be better not even considering the additions we made.
some of their signings also have some question marks. costa had one top season and oh yeah, STUNK UP THE JOINT, with spain. if he gets hurt they could also be quite similar again. fabragas can be argued to be in decline, or at least not where he was two years ago because can't really see barca selling, or he wanting to leave if he was the same player they bought.
we shall see, but it will be fun to silence the critics when we go top again.