• Chelsea took 29 players on their preseason tour of the United States, despite allowing 12 first-team players to depart in this summer transfer window

• “That is why I need to make clear we don’t need a bigger squad. We need 22, 23, 24 players and that’s it. I’m so sorry because maybe the decisions will be tough, but we need to build a good, balanced team if we want to compete for big things.”

“We need players in the same positions who have to fight for their places and it’s something we haven’t had that over the last few years.

It’s a shorter article but this one particular seems to be something that is important to Mikel. That competition should hopefully fuel us to another successful season!