Jacobs Ben on Cucurella to Real Madrid:”From Chelsea’s point of view. They feel…

🎙 Jacobs Ben on Cucurella to Real Madrid:
“From Chelsea’s point of view. They feel that Xabi Alonso needs to be embedded to determine, is it going to be a back three or a back four? Back three being Xabi Alonso’s preferred formation, and if so, it’s all about the left wing back.
Now, Chelsea do have Valentin Barco, who is capable of playing in that position, even though he thrives a bit further forwards, and had an excellent season for Strasburg. Geovany Quenda is joining from Sporting too, and he’s capable of being a left-wing back now.
Now it may be that they consider Quenda under Xabi Alonso’s formation as a deep-lying left-wing back, so effectively there’s options to fill the void left by Marc Cucurella, and yet I still expect Chelsea to scout the market and see whether there are any other starting left backs or left wing backs available.”