Chelsea boss Mauricio Pochettino can scrap switch strategy after Fulham win
Chelsea must be trying to reject any mortgage strategy that arrives from Salernitana for Andrey Santos following one other effective pre-season displaying towards Fulham. The Blues ran out 2-0 winners over their west London rivals to win the inaugural Premier League Summer Series and Santos was proper on the coronary heart of a strong staff show from Mauricio Pochettino’s new-look aspect.
Having already caught the attention towards Wrexham, the Brazilian is now starting to have a look at house in Chelsea’s midfield – one thing that was not anticipated of the participant this quickly in his Stamford Bridge profession.
Santos consists on the ball and does not look to drive issues. At the identical time, he’s additionally able to turning defence into assault and his forward-thinking footballing mind might now show to be a serious asset for Chelsea.
Initially, he had regarded destined to depart on mortgage however now the tables have turned. It’s not a formality that he can be heading away from Chelsea this summer time as in the intervening time, there will not be many apart from Enzo Fernandez that carry extra to the desk in midfield.
Strasbourg are his most certainly vacation spot however in Italy there was indications that Salernitana could possibly be about to make their curiosity recognized.
Yet there is no such thing as a motive why Chelsea must be trying to rush into a call and on the idea of his pre-season performances, Santos should keep on the membership this summer time.
He is greater than as much as the duty of competing for a spot in Pochettino’s aspect transferring ahead and if he is getting minutes within the Premier League, there is no such thing as a higher place for his improvement.
Pochettino made it clear he’d been impressed by the previous Vasco da Gama starlet throughout his opening 4 weeks on the helm.
“We will see what happens in the next few weeks and when we come back to England we will decide the future of these young players who maybe have a future here, some can maybe be part of the squad,” he defined after Santos impressed in the course of the 5-0 win over Wrexham in North Carolina.
Santos is a unique participant but when Brighton proceed to play hardball over Moises Caicedo, Chelsea want to search out options.
As it stands they don’t have any intention of paying the £100m that can be required to signal the Ecuador worldwide and Chelsea are nonetheless wanting numbers in the course of the park.
They have misplaced Mason Mount, N’Golo Kante and Mateo Kovacic and are but to herald any senior midfielders apart from children Santos and Cesare Casadei.
If Pochettino goes to embrace the membership’s youthful switch coverage, he must be trying to fast-track Santos straight into the staff.
He has undoubtedly been amongst Chelsea’s finest gamers in pre-season and may that proceed, he may even be pushing for a begin towards Liverpool.
Chelsea are going through a free hit this season as no person is absolutely anticipating something of them following final season’s disaster.
What’s vital for Pochettino is assembling one thing for the long run that stands the membership in nice stead to compete for trophies within the long-term.
Players like Santos are going to be integral for the membership’s future and so they might have a midfield answer for 10 years in the event that they get the mixing course of proper.