We are on the brink of another season. May seems like an era ago.
Since then, clubs have sold and bought players. New, promising managers have arrived with a suitcase of visions, and have started unpacking them into pre-season. Fans and football writers spend their days sighing, and speculating how these changes will impact the next season’s storyline. Will the heroes remain heroes? Will the underdogs rise?
Except at Stamford Bridge.
Through six managers in seven seasons, the story has remained almost the same. Chelsea is a club in chronic transition; they just make it into the Champions League every alternate season and wins the odd trophy by the skin of their teeth. We know this with near-certainty.