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Athletico [sic] won fair and square tonight. They played a brilliant second half. Tough to take yes, will we come be coming back stronger next year? Most likely.
I think we will sell 3 or 4 players (Luiz, Torres, Mikel, Courtois) to generate funds for a top striker. Add Lukaka to the squad and integrate some of the youngsters together with the likes of van Ginkel, Matic, Salah, Kalas and we've potentially got a very good squad.
I was hoping for us to be challenging for trophies this, definitely not expecting it so from that pov I think chelsea have overachieved this year. So far Mourinho has the benefit of doubt. He managed to have the club challenging for silverware whereas for the last 3 years we've been out of the PL title race and didn't have anything else to focus on but Europe. All in all not a bad run.
Final assessment is that we've improved on the last 2 years even though we didn't win a European trophy this year. C'est la vie, c'est la guerre, c'est la pomme de terre...