We may all still be on a bit of a high from Sunday night’s absolute masterclass against Paris Saint-Germain in the Club World Cup final, and you know what, I love this for us.
And we have a few weeks more to savor it, too, with the squad off to a well earned, if quite short three-week vacation before we all reconvene at Cobham to begin some rather abbreviated preparations for next season. Yes, next season starts in about two months, with our opening game against Crystal Palace coming up August 17.
So that’s not much time to rest and recover, especially with another long and grueling season on tap, followed by yet another major summer tournament, this time the more nationalistic, more established, but still probably very, very hot edition of the World Cup.
But if we can carry this momentum into the new season, and truly build some consistency and steady excellence from it — and not run out of energy along the way — we might yet prove that this summer was not a one-off. Any team can win once; true winners win repeatedly.
That attitude used to define Chelsea as a football club. And though much has changed in the last few years, we’ve managed to hold on to that idea, whisper it in Cobham’s dark corners and in hushed tones when no one was watching. And now, now we can shout it to the world once again.
“I said at the start of this tournament that our plan is to win it and people looked at me as if I was crazy. So I’m going to say the exact same thing now going into the Premier League and Champions League. [...] I think we’re ready and we’ll see next season.”
-Levi Colwill; source: BBC
LFG.
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