Chelsea have may played their last league game of the season, but football never sleeps.
First there’s the small matter of the Champions League final, coming up this weekend, then after that we’ve got the tasty prospect of the European Championships, delayed from last summer, on the agenda.
The squads are starting to be announced, and we expect plenty of storylines to come with Blues either making it or missing out – even this morning we’ve seen an unexpected callup for Cesar Azpilicueta for Spain.
Chelsea fans from outside the Europe won’t have their own nation in the tournament to support, but they will have no shortage of Blues out there to watch. If they fancied a wager they could use their kelbet bonuskod to wager on France maybe, with N’Golo Kante and Olivier Giroud key men in a super squad of epic proportions.
Then you’ve got Italy, with Emerson and Jorginho stepping up. Mateo Kovacic for Croatia, Andreas Christensen for Belgium
We’re a Teutonic team too now – and not just because of our manager. Timo Werner, Kai Havertz and Antonio Rudiger could make up 1/3rd of Jogi Low’s starting XI this summer.
Of course, we will be backing England. Mason Mount looks sure to start for Gareth Southgate, but plenty of others like Ben Chilwell, will be hoping they’ve made enough of an impact in recent to assure themselves of a starting place. Reece James has been brilliant for months now, and will surely be on the plane, if not in the starting XI.
If we sign Declan Rice, we could add another potential England starter to the mix before he’s even pulled on a Chelsea shirt.
If you’re after something really niche to back, why not put a fiver on a Billy Gilmour inspired Scotland making it out of the group? You’d get good odds on that, we reckon.
The only slight hole in our armour is a lack of Portuguese players. They look to be among the favourites, but the number of Blues hailing from the Atlantic nation has declined since the Jose Mourinho glory years.
Given they’re in the painful looking “group of death” with France, Germany and Hungary, they must be pretty long odds in any case, despite their excellent pool of talent.
Whoever wins it, we expect some great games and some exciting football along the way – and you can be sure there will be Chelsea players involved from start to finish.
