Chelsea's Colwill: CWC will be bigger than UCL

Chelsea's Levi Colwill has said his broadside are acceptable to triumph the Premier League and Champions League aft they won the Club World Cup -- a contention the defender believes volition beryllium bigger than the Champions League.

Chelsea came retired 3-0 winners against Paris Saint-Germain successful the Club World Cup last successful New Jersey connected Sunday with a Cole Palmer brace and a extremity from caller signing João Pedro securing the trophy for Enzo Maresca's side.

Colwill said Chelsea are looking guardant to gathering connected their occurrence and rubric of satellite champions.

"I said astatine the commencement of this tourney that our program is to triumph it [Club World Cup] and radical looked astatine maine arsenic if I was crazy," Colwill said. "So I'm going to accidental the nonstop aforesaid happening present going into the Premier League and Champions League.

"This is the biggest trophy I've ever won. I deliberation the Club World Cup volition beryllium bigger than the Champions League and we were the archetypal squad to triumph it."

Much of the sum of the caller 32-team tourney successful the United States has been dominated by low attendances, challenging weather and big last appearances, but Colwill has said the trophy tin beryllium a springboard for aboriginal occurrence astatine Stamford Bridge.

"It was a connection triumph and, successful the future, if we support winning trophies past everyone volition springiness america the emotion that we deserve," Colwill said. "But we'll lone cognize that successful helium future. I deliberation we're acceptable and we'll spot adjacent season."

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Since co-owner Todd Boehly announced his engagement with the nine successful 2022, Chelsea's transportation strategy has raised eyebrows among galore -- but Colwill believes that Chelsea present person a squad much than susceptible of consistently winning trophies.

"We're a squad and that's successful the Chelsea identity. You instrumentality unneurotic nary substance what," Colwill said. "I deliberation players similar John Terry, Frank Lampard, Didier Drogba, they started that and we're carrying it on."

"They were each astonishing players, the champion players who won a batch but we've got the champion players successful our squad -- young players for definite -- and that's our plan, to triumph the biggest trophies for Chelsea.

"We're decidedly susceptible of doing it. I deliberation we've shown that. Everyone said that PSG were the champion squad successful the satellite but we won 3-0."

Chelsea volition footwear disconnected their Premier League run successful little than a month, erstwhile they look Crystal Palace connected Aug. 17.