The performance at the 2025 Club, especially in the final against PSG, pushed Chelsea's confidence to the maximum. With this bar, is the Blues enough to annex the Premier League?
Chelsea “won all”, as their fans sing after the FIFA Club World Cup 2021 championship against Palmeiras. The tournaments have been invented and recurred since then, and despite an unprecedented volatile stage of the structure of club ownership and transfer policy, Chelsea also won those tournaments.
After winning the Conference League, UEFA's third-class club tournament, Enzo Maresca's team shocked at MetLife when defeating Luis Enrique's powerful PSG with a score of 3-0 to win the Club World Cup expansion.
With the depth of their squad and resources compared to other clubs in the Conference League – Maresca often gain “lavish” when making 11 changes for the group stage matches in the middle of the week last season – to some extent, Chelsea participating in this tournament from the beginning is a shame. The championship seems to be the only acceptable result.
However, in the US this summer, there is no such expectation. Failure 1-3 in the group stage before Flamengo seemed to have confirmed that Maresca's teachers and students were not a potential champion candidate. But the Blues took the most of the favorable knockout round and in the final match, they really played the great play against the team considered the strongest on the planet at the present time.
“It's a bit surreal. The boys are excited and hope that can lead to better things in the future,” Levi Colwill told Sky Sports. “For fans, they have the right to show off to every other club in the world. As a club, we have won everything – that's proud.”
Colwill probably underestimated the fluctuations of boasting rights, but for “better things in the future”, it is really worth asking: Can Chelsea be able to win the Premier League next season?
Regardless of the progress in the past month, there is still a huge gap that needs to make up for the last team to win the Premier League in the 2016/17 season. Chelsea did not win the Champions League until the last week of last season, when Colwill scored the only goal in a stressful afternoon at Nottingham Forest.
In fact, Chelsea is 15 points behind the Liverpool champion, the team can reduce the gas in the last 4 matches. The appearance of Florian Wirtz, Jeremie Frimpong and Milos Kerkez shows that Liverpool has been shopping impressively. Protecting a Premier League championship is not always a walk; Man City is the only club to do that since Sir Alex Ferguson's MU has achieved that achievement in the seasons of 2007/08 and 2008/09.
Most of the boastful rights that Colwill mentioned is currently focusing on Arsenal and the clear aversion of the North London team when it comes to winning the title. Chelsea is 5 points inferior to last season, partly because Mikel Arteta's students focused most of the end of the season in the Champions League. The Gunners was the runner -up for the third consecutive season and in the last two seasons, Chelsea was 26 and 40 points behind Chelsea. Arteta will be in a pioneer in Liverpool challenging next season.
Then Man City, the team dominated the era and was the champion of 6 in 9 Premier League seasons under Pep Guardiola. That context clearly explained why City's 5-2 victory over Juventus in the Club World Cup group stage was considered by many observers as evidence that Guardiola's team may have “returned” after a bad 2024/25 season according to their standards.
Failure in the round of 16 teams after extra time against Al Hilal certainly did not match the scenario, and although City had good shopping and had a priceless return of Rodri, they faced the bulky squad under the new sports director Hugo Viana.
There is a reason to believe that Chelsea can ride Club World Cup and narrow the gap with all three top teams of last season. They have an attractive schedule at the beginning of the season, with four London derby matches that can win. Then MU at Old Trafford.
The amount of additional work in the US is what you feel can affect Chelsea over time, but with a squad that is both young and thick, they know their strengths. Although Palmer has done its role in New Jersey, Joao Pedro and Liam Delap both need to do better than a erratic and hot -tempered Nicolas Jackson.
Enzo Fernandez and Moises Caicedo are worthy of the transfer amount of more than £ 100 million. If Romeo Lavia can maintain physical strength next season, Maresca has a really formidable combination in his middle line.
The defense where players like Gusto, Marc Cucurella and Trevoh Chalobah all made significant improvements but still the weakest link. Solving the block in front of the goal, at least, the Blues has the right to dream!
