Chapter 363: The state of the team
At this time, the media released the news that Chelsea's supercore Jones, who was at odds with his mentor, and that Costa had a hard-fought last-minute winner of the last round of the game to defeat Arsenal to reach the League Cup final.
Only a small number of media believe that Jones and the coach have no problem, that Chelsea are at the top of their game, and that there is no team that can pose a threat to Chelsea.
In any case, this matter is still very concerned by fans, and if Jones and the coach are at odds, it will be a big blow to Chelsea, Kodic's excellent coaching ability has been fully proven, plus Jones is in full shape, winning the championship is a matter of course for Chelsea, but if there is a problem between the two at this time, I am afraid that Manchester City will take the opportunity to surpass Chelsea.
However, most of the media are still optimistic about Chelsea, as long as Chelsea do not make too many personnel changes in this transfer period, and there are no problems with Kodic and Jones, then the title is not far from Chelsea.
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"Don't you know, look at this!" Jones turned his head to look at the TV that Kodic was pointing at, and looked at the content of the TV, and Jones couldn't help but laugh.
On TV, the football match between Arsenal and Chelsea was being broadcast, and the picture was the picture of the referee blowing the whistle for the first half. The picture in the upper left corner of the TV clearly tells the score, 2-0, and then there is the picture of Jones and several people laughing and chatting.
How could Kodic, who is a Chelsea coach, be happy with this picture, Jones stood up, turned off the TV, and after thinking about it, Jones explained to Kodic: "Coach, this is because at that time I saw that Arsenal had a problem, and I also knew that the coach must have seen it, so I explained to Hazard that we will definitely be able to pull it back in the second half, so there is this picture!" ”
Kodic was stunned: "What! You see what's wrong. ”
"After Arsenal scored, they didn't dare to continue to attack, they only knew that they defended, and attack was our strength, so we came back in the second half!"
Although Kodic was still a little unhappy in his heart, he still said: "Well, don't do this next time, your words and deeds have been paid attention to by the media, and now this matter has made the media spread something." ”
"Yes, I see, Coach." Jones nodded in reply.
"Then I'll go to training first."
"Go ahead."
After Jones left, Kodic's brow did not furnish, and Kodic then gathered his team together for a meeting!
Chelsea's match with Arsenal in the second leg of the League Cup semi-finals was really a twist and turn, although it did not reverse Arsenal 3-2 in the end, but it lost Willian, who has been in excellent form recently, and Barkley, who ushered in Chelsea's debut, performed well on the field and scored the equalizer goal, but he was also injured again!
Kodic did not start Michy Batshuayi, but let Kodic, Pedro and Willian form a front attack trident, but just half an hour into the game, Willian was injured and could not hold on, at this time Kodic did not replace Batshuayi, but gave Barkley the opportunity to make his debut.
Willian's injury has been added to Chelsea's injury, with Cesc Fabregas and N'Golo Kante also missing out on their former club due to muscle injuries, while previously injured Gary Cahill and Danny Drinkwater have both been on the bench and have struggled to help when the team fell behind in the second half of the game and needed to step up their attack.
For William's injury, Kodic still breathed a sigh of relief, because the situation is not serious, but now his attacker is either injured or in poor condition, so he still needs an attacker!
There are still 4 days to go before the end of the winter window, and the intensive recruitment work is still underway, but it is still not possible to find a suitable striker in the transfer market.
Carroll, Benteke and Crouch were not finalized at the beginning, and there was no substantial contact with the clubs of these Premier League strikers until Dzeko made up his mind that Chelsea originally wanted to buy Emelson and Dzeko in a package.
Chelsea offered the two players €50 million, including €10 million for both players, but Dzeko has refused to join Chelsea for Roma club and personal reasons, and now the last possible arrival at Chelsea is Arsenal's Olivier Giroud, who are willing to sell French striker Olivier Giroud to Chelsea for £35 million if Arsenal can successfully buy Aubameyang.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang left Arsenal and Borussia Dortmund are also looking to sign Chelsea's Michy Batshuayi to fill the void, but Kodic does not want to sell Michy Batshuayi and is ready to go on loan to Dortmund.
The deal is actually a three-way deal, with Giroud going to Chelsea, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang going to Arsenal and Michy Batshua's going to Borussia Dortmund.
After talking to Jones, Kodic has calmed down his mood and focused his thoughts and attention on his work, he has come to the Premier League from Germany for so many years, he has suffered so much and still persevered, and now that his work has just taken a big turn, he naturally wants to do a good job.
During the meeting, Osiy came to inform him that a player was considering leaving, and Kodic was a little surprised at first, because Chelsea are on good momentum and can win at least one title this season, but when you think about it, there is a lot less surprise.
It is not surprising that Michy Kodic wants to leave Batshuayi, who did not have any place in Chelsea's forward range last season, and this season, Chelsea's striker has more time than he has had in Jones, Costa, Hazard, Pedro, Moses and even Segura.
Jones is the core of the current team, Costa and Hazard are the absolute main strikers, Batshuayi has become a substitute with Pedro, Moses, Segura, 4 people, of which Pedro has played well, Moses has also played well recently, and Segura is the coach's pro-disciple.
Even if he has a title to win this season, it has little to do with him, so Batshuayi wants to leave, and Batshuayi can see that the manager doesn't care much about him, and in this situation, he knows that his future at Chelsea is bleak.
However, now, the player himself is more determined, and Kodic really can't get more playing time for Batshuayi, Kodic was now trying to send him out on loan, in that case, it is better to sell him directly to Dortmund.
Kodic gave Osi's instructions that if Dortmund made a suitable offer, he could naturally let him go, and if there was no suitable offer, he would not have to make a move for the time being.
Kodic gave the decision to Batshuayi himself, since he wants to go, then, it depends on whether he can make a suitable offer from Dortmund, Kodic will not put obstacles in the way of this transfer, after all, Batshuayi has not offended himself.