Two potential leaders for Chelsea next season named – “incredible person” and “born leader” | OneFootball

The London is Blue podcast always do really good match recaps, and today they’ve even looked ahead to Chelsea’s summer for a look at what might be coming down the pipeline to improve us next summer.

They focused one something we’ve discussed a million times – the lack of leadership at maturity in this squad. Presenter Nick Verlaney had a couple of ideas for how we could easily address that, including a move for a player we’ve been regularly linked to almost from the moment he left the club in 2022:

“Marc Guehi has been touted to return [to Chelsea], that will only happen if we make the Champions League. So I’m not counting on that at all. But he’s a leader. He’s a captain. He’s been captain of Palace for a while. Now he’s an England international. He’s an incredible person and leader, and I think would add a hell of a lot of steel to this team.”

We have to agree. He’s at a perfect point in his career where he’s mature and experienced and seems to have a great leader’s personality, but is still young enough to have room to grow and to have ambitions to go to the next level. We’d love to see him sign this summer.

Chelsea already have leadership upgrade booked in

Andrey Santos in Strasbourg training.

As a wildcard, they also mentioned a player already on the books who couldn’t have impressed the football world more, and will be joining us in the summer:

“And then someone who I think most people might have heard a little bit about is Andrey Santos. And look, you’re telling me: ‘Nick, he’s not a veteran. He’s 20, 21 years old, whatever he is.’ [But] he is a born leader.”

He may be young, but the evidence from his loan at Strasbourg this season is there. He knows how to lead.