I would go with Cathcart over Britos simply because Cathcart has played in more matches. I know Britos began the season serving a suspension but didn't help matters by getting sent off on his début. Since Britos came into the first team fold from mid-October he's been very good. But overall Cathcart deserves PotS.
I just hope ighalo doesnt win it. You can make a case for half a dozen players though really. I think gomes will win it, but I'd prefer an outfield player wins it. Keepers arent proper players...
The Chelsea academy is built as a revenue stream rather than creating future Chelsea players . Ake will be for sale if we want him you would think , or even on loan for another year . He's good but not good enough to get in Chelsea's 1st team for a long while .
Wasn't it stated somewhere that the reason they hoard loads of players is that the combined loan fees they received help keep them in check for the UEFA FFP rules? So if someone think Aké won't necessarily make it, I'm sure we would be able to buy him this summer. If we do bid for him no doubt the Pozzo's would start quite low.
Ake has been superb this season. If he continues the way he is going he will be a world class defender in 3 or 4 years time. POTS for me is a toss-up between Gomes, Watson, Cathcart and Ighalo.
I know Igahlo and Deeney have been great for us this season, and will be even better if they both stick around, but for a newly promoted team to have the 3rd best defence surely means the POTS award has to go to a defensive player. Which one? Now that's a bloody tough question. Just realised this thread has gone slightly off topic.
Plus they're struggling for right backs. Sounds like Geoff Cameron will play there and some of their fans don't rate him in that position.
I have no problem with Ake, as I have said a few times. But he is not the player people say he is. Bigging him up after today (Stoke at home) would be equally ridiculous in my opinion, and this is not the only game in which he has shown naivety and an element of poor decision making alongside the obvious talents he also, undoubtedly, possesses. He's is good enough for us, but not a good game today, and I continue to believe we have a potentially better alternative, and that we will possibly have even better next season. Who knows how Holebas would have played today, but he would have struggled to be as ineffective as Ake in this case.
