21. Ben Chilwell

[Strike 7,217]

He hasn’t been starting and I didn’t see a big clamour for him to be a regular. He’s got a good motor but that can be replaced at left back by Maatsen Cucurella Colwill

[milka 3,346]

John Terry also started  as a LB  .  

Having the same players injured for the 3rd season in a row is boring.

[lucio 5,418]

unlike james, he isn't good enough to keep around with this kind of injury record, sell

[DH1988 1,273]

Odd one, he was a good outlet for us before he got injured during Tuchel's reign but sadly I do think he needs to go. Doesn't attack well, doesn't defend well anymore.

[Fulham Broadway 16,849]

won’t be returning from injury until the start of December at the earliest.

That is according to a report from Football.London.

[James 5,199]

 

[lucio 5,418]

He’s another who should be sent packing. Picking fights with teenagers as our captain , complete embarrassment. Shite player , slow , unimaginative, basically a nothing player who’s just making up the numbers in the Xi , should never have been signed. Epitome of mediocre English players 

[Sir Mikel OBE 4,919]

37 minutes ago, lucio said:

He’s another who should be sent packing. Picking fights with teenagers as our captain , complete embarrassment. Shite player , slow , unimaginative, basically a nothing player who’s just making up the numbers in the Xi , should never have been signed. Epitome of mediocre English players 

Harsh but true.

 

[robsblubot 3,504]

I can understand the frustration with him, but let's sign a LB before sending him anywhere first?  😅

Otherwise we will end up with Cuccu and will then have the manager move Colwill back to LB.

[Strike 7,217]

3 hours ago, lucio said:

He’s another who should be sent packing. Picking fights with teenagers as our captain , complete embarrassment. Shite player , slow , unimaginative, basically a nothing player who’s just making up the numbers in the Xi , should never have been signed. Epitome of mediocre English players 

Shocking to see him pick a fight vs a teenager and play the rest of the game on a yellow. He's supposed to be the senior member of this team and he let everyone down yesterday. But I disagree he should never have been signed etc. He literally was the LB in a CL winning team few years ago. 

Edited February 26 by Strike

[TheHulk 1,856]

Should've been sold in the summer to City, another bang average Englishman.

[lucio 5,418]

An absolute must sell. Unforgivable exiling maatsen but giving this nothing player more game time

best thing about chilwell is his constant injuries so he doesn’t stink up the whole season 

[Mário César 975]

I like him but he needs to go 

[Special Juan 27,429]

We sold Maatsen to keep this bloke here-all you ask is to play one basic pass, he couldn't even manage that

[Vesper 28,807]

23 hours ago, Special Juan said:

We sold Maatsen to keep this bloke here-all you ask is to play one basic pass, he couldn't even manage that

one of the worst plays of the season

[Vesper 28,807]

Ben Chilwell included in Chelsea’s 25-man Premier League squad

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5679600/2024/09/13/Chelsea-ben-chilwell-squad/

Ben Chilwell has been included in Chelsea’s 25-man squad for the 2024-25 Premier League season.

The England international, 27, was told he was surplus to requirements at the west London club, having not played since the club’s pre-season tour in the summer.

Head coach Enzo Maresca had previously said players on the fringes of Chelsea’s squad “will not get any minutes” if they remained at the club beyond the end of the transfer window. Raheem Sterling was also part of that group before completing a loan move to Arsenal last month.

However, after failing to find a “solution” before the various deadlines around Europe passed, Chilwell has been included in the 25-man group submitted to the league and will soon return to first-team training with the rest of his team-mates. He trained individually at Cobham on Friday.

“We will sit with him and find solutions,” Maresca said. “He is probably going to be back with us (training). We will see.

“At the moment, he is not training with us. The reason why he (was) training apart, is because the idea was for him to leave.”

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Chilwell signed for Chelsea from Leicester City in August 2020 for a fee in the region of £50million. He has gone on to make 106 appearances in all competitions, scoring nine goals.

He starred under Frank Lampard and Thomas Tuchel in 2020-21 as Chelsea won the Champions League before an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury the following November restricted him to just 13 games.

Persistent hamstring issues hampered him in 2022-23 before another in 2023-24 saw him sidelined for much of the first half of the campaign.

He ended last season making just 21 appearances before missing out on a place in England’s squad for the European Championship.

[Vesper 28,807]

Chelsea: Enzo Maresca hints at Ben Chilwell U-turn after suggesting defender should leave

Left-back made first appearance since April during Carabao Cup win over Barrow

 

https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/maresca-chilwell-Chelsea-fc-latest-news-premier-league-2024-b1184605.html

 

Enzo Maresca has hinted Ben Chilwell could still be set for a role at Chelsea this season.

The Blues head coach publicly suggested the England international may be better served finding a new club over the course of the summer, with Marc Cucurella and Renato Veiga preferred at left-back in his system.

Chilwell spent part of the summer training away from the first-team squad at the club’s Cobham base but a move away did not materialise despite links with Turkish clubs.

Maresca then brought the 27-year-old back into the fold for the 5-0 Carabao Cup victory over Barrow on Tuesday night after including him in Chelsea’s 25-man squad for Premier League competition.

When asked about potentially turning to the former Leicester defender during the season, Maresca said: “Yes, in the moment we need him, why not? I said already many times and I will say again that, as long as Chilly is with us, he is a Chelsea player. And if we need him, we give him a chance and minutes."

Pressed further on whether he regrets telling Chilwell to find a new club, the Italian added: “We all make mistakes. Probably yes; probably no. I am here to take decisions. Sometimes they are good decisions and sometimes they are not good.

"The only thing I can say is that there is not any bad intention from me. It is just to see things and try to think about the best things for the club."

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Edited September 27 by Vesper