Mateo Kovacic’s transfer to Manchester Metropolis was confirmed this week, and it’s time to mirror.
Kovacic was very very like marmite amongst the Chelsea fanbase, you had followers who both completely adored him, and followers who completely hated him, there wasn’t rather a lot between the 2.
It was all a bit bizarre and simply certainly one of many civil wars amongst Chelsea followers who seemingly love nothing greater than to take a seat and argue about our gamers all day on Twitter.
To be sincere, to me Kovacic was glorious on his day, however actually had some flaws. In a nutshell, technically he’s very good and the most effective ball carriers and press resistant gamers on the earth. However for a quantity 8, his lack of high quality within the closing third, lack of creativity, and being unable to contribute with sufficient targets and assists, simply wasn’t ok. When he was poor he was actually poor, when he was good he was actually good. He was additionally a defensive legal responsibility at occasions.
For a very long time he was my favorite participant at Chelsea. I simply completely love watching him glide previous gamers and making it appear like it was the simplest factor on the earth. I like watching gamers like that.
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None of us actually know what sort of contributions he had off the sector, and I suppose we’ll by no means know. However managers clearly beloved him, and final season felt that he was captain-worthy, though I didn’t agree with that call. However they should have noticed one thing in him. Rattling, Pep Guardiola sees one thing in him!
I really assume he can be unreal in Pep’s Metropolis staff, a possession-based staff stuffed with high quality round him, he’ll be capable of be expressive with out fear.
On the finish of the day, he wasn’t going to signal a brand new contract, and we now have simply acquired £30m for a participant who’s shortly heading to his 30s and within the final yr of his contract, I feel it’s a little bit of a no brainer this deal.
I suppose I’ll miss little bit of Kovacic for certain, and I do want him the perfect. I actually by no means hated him, or underappreciated him, and at occasions I did adore him. However I name it how I see it and it was the best time to promote him. Maybe many followers did beneath fee him, however I additionally assume many OVER rated him too.
I suppose we’re simply in that period, there may be by no means any center floor with followers nowadays they usually all simply wish to level rating for his or her agendas. Unhappy.
Goodbye Kova, thanks for the reminiscences.
