Chelsea has to regret selling Cobham “Star Boy”

Enzo Maresca quickly implemented his system on ChelseaAlready showing clear patterns that Italian wants to play his side, building through a third of a slower pace, holding players in the immediate vicinity and wanting to stifle the teams in his half.

The importance of wings in this system is huge. They are often given the most freedom to be direct with their actions, wanting something to happen.

In the ideal world, these wide players can go in both directions (inside and out) to spend an opposition return range of different problems during the game.

Ideal Maresca’s wing is one that can consistently beat his man in isolation 1V1, bring balls in a box with various techniques such as cutting and trimmed crosses to the back post, but also has the ability to threaten the goals, cut inside and obtain shooting.

The Blues may have had a perfect player for this system until 2004. A certain Arjen Robben was a wing player who could beat his man to head for the line, but more importantly, he owned one of the most dead weapons when cutting inside and shooting on his left leg.

Chelsea Career Ajen Robben in numbers

Chelsea was signed by Robben back in 2004, and the Dutch wing player joined the Blues from PSV Eindhoven for a Fee of around £ 12m.

Dutchman Made 106 appearances for Chelseascoring 19 goals, offering 21 assists and a total of 6,632 minutes played.

He developed some of the signature moves, cutting inside from the right wing, having the possibility of bending the ball into the end left corner, cutting on his stronger left foot.

It was seen in his early days in Chelsea, but it developed even more in their years in Real Madrid and Bayern Munich after leaving London, they became one of the best in the world.

Robben would succeed in the Marecan system, constantly put in 1V1 isolation to attack a full back with a license to be creative and changed his actions between attacks on the line and movement inside.

As is happening, Chelsea seems to have already sold someone who could provide that same two -way threat from the wing back in 2023.

Chelsea may already sell a new Robben

Chelsea sold a specific Callum Hudson-Odoi to the Nottingham Forest in the Summer Transition Window 2023/24.

Tickle trees just paid only calm £ 3 million to insurance for young wing serviceswith potential accessories of £ 2 million to bring a total of £ 5 million. It is safe to say that the Deal bit the Chelsea at the back, after remains its shape at new heights. Now, 2025, a graduate Cobham is in the form of his career.

Indeed, since moving to a city town, Hudson-Odoi has made 61 appearances for the clubAchieving 13 goals and providing four assists, seven of which came 2024/25.

Although his per 90 metrics are generally reduced, playing on the lower side of possession, his efficiency apparently increased, and the 24-year-old has now had a 0.14 goals/crack ratio, showing an increase in efficiency.

So, where does a comparison come from?

Well, like a great Dutchman, Hudson-Odoi now makes him a protective sign of cutting inside. Right leg – unlike Robben’s left – he had a great joy by chopping inside on the left and twisting the ball into the end right corner.

As a result, it is probably that, given its form and a small fee of £ 3 million, Chelsea will regret the sale of their academy “Star boy“As described by the forest teammate and former Chelsea defender, Ola Ain.