Chelsea play their second 5.30pm Saturday game in a row this weekend, aiming to wipe the Arsenal, as it were.
The Blues need to improve their game for the clash with the Gunners – they’re simply too predictable these days, with opponents having plenty of time to practise defending against the three-midget-striker system.
The team scraped through their home game against Newcastle – the unconvincing 2-1 scoreline proving less interesting than the ballyhoo surrounding teenager Callum Hudson-Odoi.
Bayern Munich are prepared to pay £35m despite Callum only making five starts for Chelsea, a figure which means Morrie Sarri now looks at the winger in a new light.
Against the Magpies, in a late 10-minute cameo, he began down the left, but was immediately switched to the right wing. “We want you to stay, we want you to stay-ay-ay,” the Chelsea choir sang to the 18-year-old, who will hold off making a decision about a move until June.
What might tip the scales in favour of a move to Germany is that Callum’s dad, Bismark Odoi, is his agent... and the Germans do admire their Bismarcks.
Meanwhile, Sheffield Wednesday’s 1-0 win over Luton in Tuesday’s FA Cup replay will send 6,000 Owls flying down to Stamford Bridge to fill the Shed for the fourth-round tie on 27 January, with ex-Blue Sam Hutchinson (Wednesday’s version of Cesar Azpilicueta) returning to his old club.
The views expressed in this blog are those of the author and unless specifically stated are not necessarily those of Hammersmith & Fulham Council.
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