Liam Tharme

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1,662 appearances 10 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 5d ago

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The Athletic FC Podcast · Why have Chelsea changed their transfer strategy? · 6 Aug 2026 podcast

Now Chelsea, for all intents and purposes, don't need that profile as much. matched

You know, there's no reason why you can't have Caicedo or Fernandez do that or someone like Reese James either while that's rotating in from right back or playing in midfield, you've got technical matched

There, so you go, okay, I'm not entirely sure what kind of technical problem he's going to solve on on the pitch in that sense. matched

And then you've got the balance of saying to Tim's point about well, how do you structure the attack? matched

Because you've got three or four guys that can play number ten. matched

You've also now got the potential to have Jal Petro and Danny Wellbeck as a front two, which he's done in pre-season, and would actually probably get the best out of Jarl Petro, who was really good last year when he played with Danny Wellbeck at Brighton. matched

A really, really good combination because Wellbeck does a lot of running in behind, which opens matched

Pedro, who really I know he's a striker, but he likes to come defeat. matched

He wants the ball. matched

What's that? matched

He doesn't really want to be kind of channel chasing. matched

So I do think you can't really do both parts of that at once. matched

You either kind of have to build the forward line or the attack around your striker or around the Rogers De Palm of the number tens and something kind of has to give you otherwise you can end up with like a you know a four one five kind of shape and you then go, Well, that team is just gonna get completely run over in a you know in a league that's just physical. matched

I mean it's kinda demanding it's the Premier League. matched

Well, I think if your get out is that there's always been a plan in theory, but it's not worked in kind of action, then I don't know if you ever really had a plan, right? matched

You probably had more of a more of an idea. matched

And there are merits to it. matched

There's a lot of other clubs that have done similar stuff, but I think it's probably part of the plan, right, is assigning young players. matched

If that's your whole thing, and then you're going to give players a a a season, 18 months, and then they're out the door. matched

I think if you truly want to invest in young players, the additional point I put on top of that is Chelsea had a really good academy for a really long time, the premier academy in in England. matched

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