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Chelsea Mic'd Up: The Official Chelsea FC Podcast

S1:E32 - Herculez Gomez Talks Pulisic/Best Player in Concacaf?

Chelsea Mic'd Up: The Official Chelsea FC Podcast

Chelsea Mike'd Up

Chelseafc, Premierleague, Sports, Chelsea, Soccer

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode of Chelsea Mike'd Up, (13:45) USMNT great and ESPN pundit Herculez Gomez joins Michael Ryan Ruiz and Chris Wittyngham to discuss his thoughts on Christian Pulisic's first season at Chelsea, who is best out of Pulisic, Alphonso Davies, Raul Jimenez, and Keylor Navas as best player in Concacaf, and watching football played behind closed doors. We also discuss (0:45) N'Golo Kante's departure from Chelsea training, (6:40) the latest Project Restart news, (31:15) what we've learned from 3 Bundesliga match days, and (35:10) the latest transfer news and rumors.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Coming up on this week's edition of Chelsea Mic'd up, lot of Chelsea news and notes and Golokante has left training.

0:07.1

What does that mean for Chelsea? Also, latest transfer news and gossip and we'll talk to another US men's national team player

0:14.3

Hercules Gomez making his Chelsea miked up debut all that and more on this week's

0:19.3

episode let's go. Sow. Man I got swag.

0:24.0

I've been a blue shirt chasing a bag.

0:26.0

Chris Whittingham, my neutral observer friend, we were very excited last week to see fun pictures of Angola Conte with hair at the training facility at

0:36.2

Cobham. We were all very excited at the prospect of finally having a fully fit

0:40.4

in Golocante which is not something we've been able to say really all year, but

0:44.6

in Golokante decided to leave training after going to just one training session, and this story is complicated.

0:50.7

The good news is he's being met with overwhelming support which is not something typically when I was growing up and the highest paid player in franchise history decided I don't have a negative test and he's not just fearing Corona we'll get into all that the fans would usually

1:06.2

rebel against this player that is not the case it speaks a lot to how likable and Golokante is the

1:12.1

utmost professionalism he approaches his job.

1:15.5

He has a full support of the club, which also helps.

1:19.2

Definitely understanding the times like these, you love to see a club like Chelsea standing behind their player.

1:24.4

But in Golokante leaves training and it's complicated because he has a family history.

1:29.6

Many people learn that he had a younger brother, died suddenly, his father died suddenly, and

1:36.0

one of the things that was reported, I think I saw this in the athletic Chris, was

1:39.8

in Golokante had a bit of a scare at Cobham too, passing out after a training session.

1:44.1

Now all the tests didn't reveal a coronary disease that he was fearing that's in his family,

1:49.8

but you start stacking all of these things up and you keep in mind that the mortality

1:55.0

rates for people with coronary diseases who contract COVID not looking great that

1:59.6

is a pre-existing condition I can understand the caution that in Golokante has approached this whole thing with and the decision for him to leave training.

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