Joel Penny

They went on that 11-game winning run and people were putting them in there.

I think the way that their squad is managed, one thing that they could potentially work with is stability, where they're only changing one or two around the edges and the same group is saying, look,

Let's go again one more time.

He needs to keep hold of Rodgers.

Yeah, that's exactly it.

No, but I think that they are ageing, but they probably do have the ability to say, let's give it one more go.

And whether they can do it in both competitions, I doubt it.

I think the last time they were in the Champions League, they got to the quarterfinals, but then they didn't qualify for the Champions League last time.

Whereas this time, this season, they were able to go deep in Europa League and do well in the Premier League.

I think it's going to be much harder for them next season, but I'm not ruling them out.

I think they can quite easily finish top three next season and be in a title race.

The funny thing about Chelsea for me, right, and yes, you can say Man United definitely benefited from having no European football.

What Man United also have is a much smaller squad than Chelsea.

Chelsea have got a lot of players.

And that's even before you think about the ones around on loan.

And they've all got to be happy.

And we've seen how many Chelsea managers have struggled to keep all those players happy.

And when you don't have European football, say they get beat and knocked out of the Carabao Cup early.

That means that all of those players, until it gets to January, have got to be fighting for one competition.

And you can say it might help them in terms of playing, getting them on the training ground, in terms of being able to work out who his best players are, etc, etc.