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Huddersfield review

Huddersfield 0 - 3 Chelsea (Kante, Jorginho, Pedro) This weekend saw the return of premier league football, with Chelsea starting their campaign against Huddersfield. Going into the match there were many questions on the lips of Chelsea fans; Would any of our world cup stars start? What was the back four going to look like? Would Kepa make his debut? Will Hudson Odoi and Loftus Cheek get starts? Well Chelsea lined up in a way that most did not want, but had predicted. Sarri's 4-3-3 was on show with Kepa making his start in goal. The back four consisted of Dave, Luiz, Rudiger and Alsonso. Getting the nod in the middle were Kante, Jorginho and Barkley with a front 3 of Willian, Morata and Pedro. My initial thoughts and the thoughts of many Chelsea fans were; Where is Hudson Odoi? Not even featured on the bench many feared the worst but soon it was revealed that the youngster picked up a knock in training thus was not in the match day squad. PHEW. The game: A breakdown Overall...
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Chelsea's transfer business; How did we do?

Its all over So at 5 o'clock yesterday the transfer window for the English leagues slammed shut. Thank god for that! The transfer window is a stressful ball of lies, hopes, expectation and misery at the best of times and this year was no different. With the introduction of the shorter window to ensure no transfers took place once the season has started, combined with this year being a world cup year it was always going to be a high speed roller coaster of a summer. After finishing 5th last season the transfer market was always going to be hard to read and with the managerial circus that followed I was certain that we were in for a shocking summer. Looking back on it now I can't believe we have got to where we are. But lets go back to the beginning. I am going to work through our transfer business over the summer in terms of key signings. I could go through each outgoing however with our loan army we could be here until January.  Sarri Signs Yes, I am going to co...
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