This was due to Tchouameni having played 10 games for Monaco in the Champions League group stage and Europa League first knockout round, after the French outfit finished third in their Champions League group. In the Champions League, Tchouameni made seven appearances for Chelsea, all coming from the bench, but made a total of 17 appearances in European competition throughout the 2021/22 season. Saul is another dimension to transform the team into world-beaters.Aurelien Tchouameni's stats in the 2021/22 season for Chelsea. More depth and more strength in the centre of the pitch will make Chelsea dominate on all fronts this year. Saul will work hard and if any manager can take him to the next level and improve him either in the defensive sense or the attacking sense, it will be Thomas Tuchel. He will be dying to get his hands on the Champions League having played all 120 minutes in the 2016 final against Real Madrid. Not only did he help Atletico dominate La Liga last year but he has won two Europa Leagues and a UEFA Super Cup.
More than anything, Saul joins Chelsea as a winner. They would however miss the Italians passing ability, with Saul only averaging at slightly below the league median in La Liga last year. Where Chelsea would benefit is in a burst of speed in comparison to Jorginho’s lack thereof. This would most likely suggest that he would be a rotation for Jorginho, who occupies a similar role. This helps his team play out from the back. Saul likes to sit quite deep a lot of the time and tends to occupy space in between his own centre backs. The only issue, and it’s a big one, is that he struggles to put the ball in the net, having a high expected goals and very few goals scored (only two in the whole of last year). He obtains skills similar to Frank Lampard in his ability to run off the ball and pop up at the right place at the right time. This one is consistent in both areas of the pitch and will fill in where necessary. Much more fitting for him is the term box-to-box midfielder. Saul isn’t a world-class defensive midfielder or a world-class attacking midfielder. If Chelsea take up their option to buy at the end of the season, however, a youngster may not get their chance to play next year.
The arrival of Saul will enable Chelsea to protect the Frenchman. With Kante struggling more and more with injuries as years go by, he needs to be protected. Jorginho admirably played on before Trevor Chalobah came on to play in a central defensive midfield role (a position he played on loan at Huddersfield Town). Problems arose last time out against Liverpool when they went down to ten men and both Jorginho and Kante suffered injuries. The reality for Chelsea is that they only have three central midfielders. Both left to gain valuable match experience in an attempt to rejoin the first team next year.
Two young midfielders, Billy Gilmour and Conor Gallagher, also departed on loan. The arrival of Saul Niguez was a necessity for Chelsea as manager Thomas Tuchel does not trust backup midfielders Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Ross Barkley.
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