Iām going to surprise you by not launching an impasioned defence of our greatest ever player, or at least the greatest weāve had since Colin Bell, but i would point out that he has been exceptional every season for us bar the one where the squad to a man collectively downed tools (last year).
Kolarov had three or four fine games in the middle early on against poorer teams, but heās been appalling since. The defence have as a whole, Stones and Sagna less so than the others. Weāve conceded as many goals as Middlesbrough. Look at his attempt to catch Hazard for the third goal today. Prime example. The lad is pure shite.
I canāt quite work out the tone of your final sentence, so iāll assume itās sarcastic as that would make more sense. One point i would make is that Chelsea havenāt only made good buys to key spinal areas of their side, but Conteās swiftly improved players already there who were looking at best wildly inconsistant, like Pedro, or at worst like they were there to fulfil homegrown squad quotas, like Moses.
Iām not suggesting Pepās out of his depth, more that heās been let down by years of awful player recruitment before his time, and has walked into an unfit, top heavy squad, but iād be lying if i said i wasnāt expecting a little more from him. The two other main issues fans had with Pellegrini were a) that he insisted on a wildly high defensive line that regularly cost us soft goals, and b) that he didnāt positively change games from the sidelinesā¦
