Levi Colwill in awe of £110k-a-week Chelsea player that is nearly perfect

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Chelsea’s Levi Colwill has shared the huge admiration he’s got for teammate Thiago Silva.

Levi Colwill, who’s just 20, is a talented young defender that has entered the Chelsea first-team dressing room this season.

The Blues academy graduate should find it easier integrating into a very young and inexperienced squad of players, with only a few exceptions to that.

Remarkably, Thiago Silva is the only outfield player aged over 30 in the main squad. It doesn’t prevent the 38-year-old centre-back from playing a key role in the starting XI still, though.

Colwill has admitted he does take very close notice of what Silva does alongside him during games. In fact, he’s said he’s nearly perfect in everything he does.

“When he does anything on the pitch, for a split second, I try to analyse it and take it in because most of the time everything he does is perfect,” Colwill told Olivia Buzaglo, as quoted by her Instagram.

All of Chelsea’s players should be looking to Silva as the example, especially the young defenders.

Silva, who earns £110,000-a-week (Spotrac), definitely feels like an important figure at the club both on and off the pitch.

The veteran Brazilian turns 39 this month and can still perform in the Premier League. It’ll be interesting to see if he’s still in the best XI once Benoit Badiashile returns from his injury, though.

On top of his playing ability, Silva must be a huge presence away from the pitch.

Football.London’s journalist Scott Trotter reported on X recently that Silva was on the touchline shouting instructions towards teammate Marc Cucurella to help him during the recent cup fixture against AFC Wimbledon.