Another new feature: from this phase of the league, the three European Cups are no longer connected to each other. No Europa League team will therefore be transferred to the Conference League. In other words, the winner of this fourth edition is necessarily among the 36 already present. And how can we not turn our gaze towards Chelsea? The Blues are the absolute favorites of this edition. Numbers never lie.
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Just the value of the numbers perfectly illustrates the enormous gap between the Londoners and the rest of the qualified. Together, Chelsea players are worth €948.2 million according to the specialist site Transfermarkt. And those of the 35 other clubs combined? €1.352 billion, more than €32 million less than what Todd Boehly and his partners have already spent on the transfer market since their arrival at Stamford Bridge in 2022 (€1.384 billion)…
Romeo Lavia is not on Chelsea’s list. He can integrate it later.
Still according to Transfermarkt, the 17 players who have the highest market value in this competition play for the Blues.
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Now recovered, Roméo Lavia, like Cole Palmer and Wesley Fofana, was omitted from Enzo Maresca’s European list for the league phase. The trio could indeed be reinstated to the list from the knockout phase. In the case of the Belgian, the decision was taken, by the Chelsea coach, for the “protect”. Its absence means that at present only one of our compatriots active abroad is involved in the competition: it is Alessandro Albanese. The former Ostend player represents… HJK Helsinki.
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There will obviously be all the Belgians from La Gantoise and Cercle Bruges too. While the Groen en Zwart welcome the Swiss from St Gallen this Thursday (6:45 p.m.) at the Jan Breydel, the Buffalos will be entitled to a prestigious opening duel as they will immediately go to the den of Chelsea (9 p.m.) .
It seems like nothing, Wouter Vrancken’s men are not approaching this Conference League like Tom Thumb. Far from it. Among the clubs involved, Gent have the third highest UEFA coefficient. Only Chelsea (96,000) and Copenhagen (51,500) have done better than the Buffalos (45,000) on the European scene in recent years. If Fiorentina, LASK Linz or even Betis Sevilla also have their cards to play, the Conference League will certainly still introduce us to unknown stadiums, such as those of NK Celje (Sln), FC Noah (Arm), FC Larne ( IdN), FK Borac (BH), Pafos (Chy)…
