I’ve written articles lately talking about our naive recruitment and the truth that we’ve got ignored confirmed high quality and expertise in our squad construct, one thing that SO many different followers, pundits, professionals, former gamers, and former Chels have additionally highlighted so much.
This has drawn a lot consideration {that a} #ChangeTheModel motion was began by Chelsea followers this week too. And this motion is principally saying the identical because the above and the beneath….
Nonetheless, are Chelsea’s determination makers lastly coming round and can they handle this situation in the summertime? If the most recent hearsay is something to go by, maybe they’re…
Florian Plettenburg of Sky Germany reported on Wednesday this week that Chelsea are as soon as once more monitoring Ivan Toney from Brentford forward of a doable transfer to signal him this summer time. He additionally says that his price shall be round £30m-£40m.
So if Chelsea are excited by Toney once more, perhaps they’re realising they want extra confirmed expertise?
This reassures me and offers me hope, not simply because I’m a fan of Toney and would fee the signing if we did handle to deliver him in, however purely as a result of it could imply we’ve got put this daft under-25 rule to mattress and we are literally taking a look at addressing our most urgent situation on this squad.
Like I stated, I fee Toney, and I truly suppose his profile is among the most suited profiles out of all of the strikers linked to what we want. We’d like a link-up striker, one who may also be a goal, is aware of the place the web is, and has as high mentality, confidence, and expertise of enjoying on this league.
This transfer at this worth can be supported and favored by the vast majority of the Chelsea fan base, at the very least I feel it could, I don’t like to talk for the entire fanbase.
Toney has solely been concerned in 13 video games for relegation battling Brentford this season and he has give you a objective involvement in virtually half of these sport. He’s scored 4, and received 1 help. In case you add his England objective then he has 5 targets and 1 help in 14 appearances since coming back from his ban this season. Think about if he was put in a extra attacking staff like Chelsea, with the quantity of probabilities we create (normally – not all the time), and the way we favor to play on the entrance foot. Even our counter attacking chaotic type at instances would swimsuit Toney. I’ve little question he would rating double the quantity of targets if he’s in a greater staff.
Toney is an actual centre ahead and performs in the same solution to Harry Kane when it comes to how he drops in to become involved in construct up as nicely, creating area and room in behind for gamers with tempo similar to maybe Nicolas Jackson if he performed as a large striker, Mykhailo Mudryk together with his tempo, or Noni Madueke who can be direct and on the entrance foot, to take advantage of. Cole Palmer and Enzo Fernandez’s imaginative and prescient would have a subject day with somebody like Toney to goal for, and Malo Gusto and Reece James would even have somebody to select on crosses. When we have to go lengthy from the again, Toney is sweet at hold-up play too.
He additionally has one factor in his thoughts, and that’s to attain targets. Within the Premier League this season, he’s taking an unimaginable 3 pictures per sport. It’s unimaginable as a result of it’s for a staff like Brentford, who’re largely below the cosh quite than attacking. He’s additionally successful a powerful 3.6 aerial duels per sport.
Evaluating that to Jackson, who has 12 targets and three assists in 41 appearances in all competitions (home and worldwide) thus far this season, and general is taking simply 1.9 pictures per sport and successful simply 0.9 aerial duels per sport, you possibly can see what we’re fully lacking by not having the profile of somebody like Toney.
Is Toney good? Nope. Are any of our choices accessible good? Nope. Each signing is a threat. I simply suppose it’s necessary to scale back that threat as a lot as doable by signing somebody who’s confirmed and stuffed with self-confidence. I don’t wish to hold speaking about how somebody is enjoying badly as a result of they’re a ‘confidence participant’ – how about simply cease signing confidence gamers!? Make no doubts, whether or not they may settle right here or not, and signing somebody with PL expertise goes alongside solution to lowering that doubt.
I’m definitely not Toney or no person, and I’m completely open to different choices and can be proud of different choices too. However I’d even be very comfortable if we managed to get Toney this summer time for round £40m (I feel it may be a contact greater than that although, particularly if different golf equipment are available too).
He’s 28-years-old, an England worldwide, luggage of confirmed goalscoring expertise, and he has management and captaincy expertise, which is definitely in all probability crucial factor we have to herald that I haven’t even talked about.
He ticks SO many bins. Get it performed.
