Chelsea look to have landed one of the signings of the summer, if Jorginho is able to remain consistent throughout his debut campaign.
The Italian, signed from Napoli for a fee in the region of £50 million according to the Mirror, has looked fantastic for his new club in pre-season so far, posting some highly impressive passing statistics.
Jorginho has already started to show why he was one of the most coveted midfielders in Europe, and Chelsea could seriously be on to a winner with him starting alongside N’Golo Kante every week.
The Blues have a player on their hands that is rare to find these days. He has the ability to completely dictate the flow of a game, and is frighteningly accurate when picking a pass, as illustrated by his remarkable stat of having given the ball away just once in 180 minutes of football.
He is a player that has been cut from the same cloth as Sergio Busquets, who is one of the very best holding midfielders in world football.
Jorginho still has a few years of development before he reaches the dizzy heights set by the Spaniard, but there would be no surprises if he went on to reach a similar level.
Teams are going to find it nigh-on unbearable trying to contend with Jorginho and Kante in the middle of the park. Both can pass the ball with incredible accuracy, and both are relentlessly industrious when out of possession – the Frenchman is famed for such trait, of course.
Trying to get the ball off them is going to be difficult in itself, but then there’s the challenge of trying to keep it away from them as they come snapping at the heels hunting down what they believe should be theirs. Good luck, midfielders of the Premier League, you’re going to need it.
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