Credit where due but this side relies far too heavily on Eden Hazard. No real game winners in their squad outside of him and it really shows just how poor the English league now is. A shame really to see all the top players just wanting to be in Spain.
Don't think it'll take anyone too much to catch these really. They aren't all that.
You are wrong, without Costa they wouldn't have won the league, they didn't have a proper striker last season and came 3rd. I don't think that they won the league because of one particular player as Fabregas, Costa, Courtois, Matic, Terry played a major role. It's really amazing what Terry did this season, probably the best defender in the league and he was not even on the bench under Rafa. Only positive in all this is that United will not win the league.
Fair point, although I'm not saying Eden won it on his own. I'm saying that they wouldn't have won it had they had a player inferior to him in his stead. Without Costa I think they'd have made do and still won it with Remy and Drogba. Without Courtois they'd have Cech etc. John Terry is a fabulous defender and would be my pick for defender of the year but there were numerous games when it was tied up at 0-0 and Hazard magic won the game.
No one really has those "world class" players in this league anymore.
We used to have Steven Gerrard at 25 odd, Luis Suarez, Fernando Torres. That's just at Liverpool. Then there was Cristiano Ronaldo, Van Nistelrooy, Robben, Tevez, Cantona, etc etc.
My point is that the current standard of the league is extremely poor and even 5 years ago if Chelsea had this same side and everyone else had their teams of 5 years back I don't think Chelsea would win it.
