Sorry, had to get that out, and probably should have done so a few months ago.
In any case we are now at the start of a new campaign and we have to start all again and time will tell if Chelsea can go back-to-back. They have the team for it, although there may be issues up front despite have two of the best strikers to call upon. Diego Costa and Falcao are both world class finishers, but Costa was injured last year more than he was not and Falcao has had a bit of a form slump recently, as well as his own injury issues. It may be that Loic Remy will start a fair number of games and have a good opportunity to show his worth. Meanwhile in the midfield not much has changed from last year, although the wunderkinder Ruben Loftus-Cheek has been given a spot in the first team and hasn’t been loaned out, which (despite Mourinho’s recent comments) tend to point to the fact that Chelsea and Jose think that Loftus-Cheek is a big prospect for Chelsea and may be the first youth player to stay at Chelsea since John Terry. It will be interesting to see how the squad goes, whether they can lift to the same level again, and whether they can manage to have an European campaign worth writing about as well, or whether fatigue will mean that only one campaign will end up being the focus again
Elsewhere in the premiership interesting times have a been a happening. Arsenal have started to get a squad that is looking dangerous, City and United are also looking threatening, but Liverpool appear to not be able to hold on to players. Elsewhere in the table all teams appear to be able to now get in some decent players, as it appears that the EPL is now the league of choice of many top players, as opposed to the Spanish or Italian leagues (other than the top 2-3 teams.) Even newly promoted AFC Bournemouth have managed to sign an international player in Ivorian Max Gradel. This is showing the the EPL is a very deep league with no real easy games for anyone, even the top clubs, and to win it (as Chelsea will do again) takes a lot of hard work and no shutting off, because who ever does lift the trophy at the end of the season will be the team who does the most work and earns it through blood, sweat and tears.
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