Football in England: Chelsea's attacking Liverpool and Manchester City

At the end of this Premier League season will be the master of Chelsea very close to be on English. Because the players of the clubs from the West of London will have to watch at the penultimate round, when Liverpool will be presented to the 25-pound trophy. Sporty is a world of difference between the two Clubs now. Although Chelsea has thrown the champion just before the start of the Coronavirus-lock downs at the beginning of March out of the FA Cup but in the League table, both clubs separate monumental 33 points. At the weekend, Chelsea lost against newly promoted Sheffield United 0:3. A setback in the fight for the Champions League places.

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For Chelsea, it was a transitional season. Fan favorite Frank Lampard is inexperienced as a coach, comparatively. Before the change to his previous club, he had collected with Derby County, only a short experience in the second League. To make matters worse, Eden Hazard was added prior to the season, the departure of Superstar to Real Madrid, could also be because of the world governing body Fifa imposed Transfer embargo is not adequately compensated. It was an Association of punishment, because Chelsea was a breach of the rules in the commitment of underage players.

it was Only in the last Winter transfer window, the club was allowed to take new players under contract, the International court of arbitration for sport had upheld Chelsea's appeal and actually up to this summer's applicable period of Ineligibility is shortened. Therefore, a placement among the top four Teams would already be a success. And you can decorate your season even with "Silverware", as they say in England: In the FA Cup they reached the semi-final; opponent is Manchester United, another out of shape a bit Adonis of English football. From the Champions League they are leaving, however, very likely, Bayern Munich has won the first knockout round, first leg 3:0.

to blow it All in all, something like atmosphere of departure into the corridors of Stamford Bridge stadium seems to be instead of in a bad mood again. The "BBC" wrote, at the end of June that Chelsea is working on something Big: "Not only on the place where Chelsea creates the Basis for an exciting end to the season, but also next to it. Exciting additions are on the way to strengthen a team that is already a mixture of hopeful young talent and battle-tested experience.“

in fact, it looks as if the club bring in, in order to reduce the gap to the table top again. Chelsea is in the Premier League Era since 1992, five times champion, in 2012, the Champions League and last summer, with Lampard's predecessor, Maurizio Sarri, the Europa League won. The claim of the known to be impatient club owner Roman Abramovich is high and also the Fans have become accustomed to success.

Abramovich seems to be Lampard to trust after all, so much so that he takes in spite of the loss of revenue due to the Corona-crisis money for additions in the Hand. And, after it had looked like in the past years, as if he had lost interest in Chelsea. The German striker Timo Werner switches for more than 50 million euros from RB Leipzig to London. All the costs such as salary and consultant fees included in the calculation, can be Chelsea for the Transfer of allegedly more than 100 million pounds of costs in part against the financed by the sale of Álvaro Morata to Atlético Madrid.