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I wonder how long will Maresca get pass (after winning CWC, which was great) for his strange decisions.

Some people are confident we will beat Bayern with easy cause of their high line... I am not confident at all - Maresca has terrible record vs top clubs, wining only one game vs PSG (ok, that was great win) and maybe you can add the win vs hangover Liverpool. Other than that not only we couldn't beat Arsenal, City, first game vs Pool, but we were poor in those matches. Bayern defense is not great, that's true. But their attack - Kane, Gnabry, Olise and Diaz vs our shaky defense - ouch.

Murray-Cambpell has signed new 2-year contract, wonder whether he is better or worse than Anselmino https://www.chelseafc.com/en/news/article/new-contract-for-harrison-murray-campbell

Current defense situation (positions are fluid): LB: Cucurella, Hato RB: James, Gusto CB: Chalobah, Tosin, Acheampong, Badiashille, Fofana (fitness issues), Colwill (basically out for whole season), Anselmino (young, not proven), Murray-Cambpell (young, propably not good enough) Bomb squad: Chilwell, Veiga, Disasi, Gilchrist As you can see, numbers are here, but some fitness/qualities concerns are also here.

he was constantly injured in first half of the season

So if everything goes according to rumors (not caring about bomb squad), some positions are fluid: CF: J Pedro, Delap LW: Gittens, Garnacho AM: Palmer, Simons, RW: Neto, Estevao MF: Enzo, Caicedo, Lavia, Santos, Essugo LB: Cucurella, Hato, CB: Colwill, Badiashille, Tosin, Chalobah, Fofana, RB: R James, Gusto, Acheampong GK: Sanchez, Jorgensen, Slonina Out: Nkunku, Jackson, KDH Loan: George, Anselmino Not counting GK it gives us 23 players for 10 positions. Considering Fofana, Lavia and R. James health it's pretty good depth. However even with a lot of games I think some of the forwards will be unhappy with playing time - how to properly split game time between Gittens, Garnacho, Simons, Palmer, Neto and Estevao, also considering that Enzo and Santos can play AM?

He left the second game with muscle injury, but there wasnt any info whether it's serious.

Madueke? Sterling and Chilwell sales are much more difficult.

No way we will go with those CBs, Fofana is playing 10 games, and Badiashile is terrible. That would leave us with Colwill and Tosin only (and Hato who is not ready to be CB in PL)

Yeah, and you know whole story is bullshit

Barcelona bought Joan Garcia

fun fact - Rogers is one year older than Simons.

So: ST: J Pedro, Delap LW: Gittens, Simons, RW: Neto, Estevao, George AM: Palmer, Enzo So 8.5 for 4 positions, I am not sure how much George will be trusted, and also how much will Enzo play AM (depending on Lavia health, and Santos/Essugo development).

So, if Nkunku, Jackson and Guiu (loan) are to left, our attacking options will be: ST: J Pedro, Delap LW: Gittens, Simons, RW: Neto, Estevao, George AM: Palmer, KDH, Enzo So, counting Enzo as half, we have 9.5 players for 4 positions. Seems reasonable as KDH and George won't see much playing time.

I haven't watched too much of Xavi Simons - is he really what we need? Won't we have another 'Nkunku/Felix' problem - he won't displace Palmer as 10, so we will try to shoehorn into another position, where he won't be so good?