Cahill just like John Terry??

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Gary Cahill was Chelsea’s hypothetically perfect signing. Juan Mata was also a hypothetically perfect signing. What I mean by this is that the signing makes sense on basically every possible level.

On the 16th of January 2012, Gary Cahill finally completed his move to Chelsea Football Club. To most, including myself, he seemed like the perfect signing for Chelsea. A few problems in defence for the Blues and so in came Cahill.

Right, let’s go through the reasons why Cahill was the hypothetically perfect signing for Chelsea.

1) Only £7 million. Gary Cahill was linked with every top club in the Premier League in the Summer Transfer Window but due to unsatisfactory bids from the interested clubs, he couldn’t complete his move away from Bolton. With Cahill on his last year of his contract, Bolton knew that unless he changed his mind, Gary Cahill was off in January- and for a pretty low transfer fee. In January, the most Bolton could acquire for this Sheffield-born centre-back was in the region of £5-£8 million. Chelsea came knocking, Cahill got talking, the transfer deal started moving.

2) England International. Gary Cahill had made 7 International appearances for England prior to his move to West-London. In three of those appearances he had a starting place alongside Chelsea defender, and then captain of England, John Terry. These two looked good next to each other. Gary Cahill’s game looked quite similar to that of John Terry’s as he showed his dominance in the air, comfort with the ball at his feet and commanding nature with his communication. Promising partnership for England, future partnership for Chelsea. In my opinion, ‘G.C’ is a pretty good nickname abbreviation for Gary Cahill- just like J.T.

3) Technical ability. As I mentioned in the above paragraph, Cahill is comfortable with the ball at his feet. In Villas-Boas’ system, centre-backs require good technical ability in order to play out from the back. Although AVB has now been sacked, Cahill’s technical ability will still be a significant advantage in the years to come for Chelsea.

4) 26 years-old. Peaking age with his best years ahead of him. John Terry is almost exactly 5 years older than Cahill, at 31. This age gap is near perfect because it gives Cahill the chance to settle in at Chelsea, learn things from Terry and eventually take over the responsibility in the heart of the defence; Terry’s not going to play till his mid-30s due to his regular injury occurrences.

5) Communication. Cahill has only been at Chelsea a short period of time, yet his comments in the media and his body language and vocalised manner on the pitch, shows that he is a winner and will give his best to the cause (his angry reaction to Man United’s equaliser at Stamford Bridge speaks a thousand words). Gary Cahill does a lot of pro-active finger pointing- just like J.T. You see several footballers these days finger-pointing to prepare an excuse, not Gary Cahill. I have a feeling Chelsea fans will hear a lot more of Cahill’s up-beat, honest talk in the media in Chelsea blue, (aswell as his rather unique running style).

Cahill’s personality and footballing ability is generally extremely positive. Chelsea will be very happy with this acquisition and will hope Cahill continues to improve, aswell as help the club achieve vast quantities of success, over the coming years.