CAN BIELSA SPARK DORMANT STRIKER?

Chris Dunlavy

a fresh take on football

JOSE Mourinho was approaching the end of a typically surly media briefing when he was asked which Chelsea prospect had the best chance of a first-team breakthrough.
It was April 2015, and Patrick Bamford had just collected the Championship Player of the Year award after scoring 19 goals for Middlesbrough.
The striker seemed an obvious choice. He was 21, burnished and confident after three successful years on the road. Better yet, the impending retirement of Didier Drogba left a perfectly-formed ho...