Even after spending greater than $1.26 billion on signings since American investor Todd Boehly succeeded Roman Abramovich, Chelsea proceed to throw cash at their issues.
The Blues have struck an settlement to rent Mexican set piece coach Bernardo Cueva, who’s presently at Brentford, for a reported $1.1million payment.
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The 37-year-old is lastly set to affix Mauricio Pochettino’s backroom workforce to revamp their set items after the 2 west London golf equipment agreed on the compensation bundle.
In an announcement launched on Saturday, Brentford introduced Cueva’s departure and thanked the Mexican for his companies over the previous few years on the Group Stadium.
“Bernardo has executed a incredible job for us over the past 4 seasons,” Phil Giles, Brentford’s director of soccer, mentioned. “He leaves with the blessing and finest needs of everybody at Brentford.”
Cueva has performed a key position in Brentford’s current successes within the Premier League after surviving within the high flight for 3 consecutive seasons.
Of the 160 objectives they’ve scored since gaining promotion, 41 of them have come from set items. In different phrases, greater than 25 per cent of the Bees’ objectives have come from rehearsed strikes on the coaching floor which have been meticulously designed by him.
Ivan Toney durante un partido con el Brentford
A brand new starting for Cueva
After spells with Mexican facet Chivas, the Norway nationwide workforce and Brentford, Cueva will head to Stamford Bridge to assist design set-pieces for a Chelsea facet who’ve struggled on this division.
Regardless of boasting towering defenders akin to Benoit Badiashile, Axel Disasi and Levi Colwill, they’ve conceded numerous objectives from set-piece conditions, together with within the 1-0 Carabao Cup remaining defeat to Liverpool.
Between the three defenders this season, they’ve scored six of Chelsea’s 12 objectives from set-pieces. However with an professional like Cueva on the books, the Blues can be trying to get nearer to the 20 objectives scored by Arsenal, who’ve improved with their very own specialist, Nicolas Jover.
