Mauricio Pochettino is inching ever closer to a return to English football with Chelsea. While it’s a move laced with narrative given his Spurs history, it’s also one that makes a lot of sense for Pochettino given some of the raw ingredients already in place…
Levi Colwill
As long as he doesn’t angle for a permanent move to the demonstrably superior Brighton where he’s spent a successful season on loan, Colwill appears all set to be a key figure in Mauricio Pochettino’s Chelsea revolution.
The path to the first team for talented academy grads hasn’t always been straightforward at Chelsea but a combination of the current bonfire of a squad and imminent arrival of a manager ready and willing to put his faith in the best of the club’s youngsters could well change that picture significantly.
Colwill is better placed than most to benefit despite operating in a position, centre-back, where youngsters generally find it hardest to break through. He’s good enough to do it, and has the significant advantage of being entirely blameless for this season’s assorted fiascos.
Mason Mount
Appeared to be heading for the exits with contract talks stalling but looks a very good fit for a position in the three of a Pochettino 4-2-3-1 where energy, pressing, intelligence and technique are key. Mount brings all those qualities and the requisite eye for goal. He could learn from Dele Alli.
Has always seemed like the sort of player managers love and it’s pretty easy to see him once again reasserting himself as a key player at Chelsea and for England under Pochettino’s tutelage. On which note, it’s worth noting here that just as a general point, Pochettino’s return to English football is very good news for the England national team. There was a spell for a while there where every other player to make their England debut had worked under Pochettino, and Chelsea – as ever – have as good a crop of English players as anyone. For instance…
Reece James and Ben Chilwell
These two definitely come as a pair here, so you get two for the price of one, because Pochettino’s football asks an awful lot of its full-backs who are expected to attack like wing-backs while never forgetting their defensive responsibilities.
Chelsea are blessed with a pair of the best in James and Chilwell, and a quick look at how Pochettino developed his full-back options at Spurs should dissuade either man from looking elsewhere this summer even if Real Madrid do come…
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