‘I’m really confident’ – Romeo Lavia names three future stars at Chelsea
Romeo Lavia has picke out Tyrique George, Josh Acheampong and Shim Mheuka as three possible stars of the future at Chelsea.
Aged only 21 himself, Lavia has shown several เล่นเกมคาสิโน UFABET ทันสมัย ฝากถอนง่าย flashes of brilliance since joining Chelsea in a £53million move from Southampton back in 2023.
But it’s been far from plane sailing for Lavia. Having misse practically the entirety of his debut season through injury, the midfielder has hampere by fitness problems again this term, managing just 12 appearances in all competitions under Enzo Maresca.
There are hopes Lavia could be welcome back into the fold over the coming weeks, though Maresca is yet to put a timescale on his possible return to first-team action.
Despite his frustrating start to life at Stamford Bridge, Lavia was this week named as one of the EA SPORTS FC 25 Future Stars, along with the likes of Lamine Yamal, Benjamin Sesko, Leny Yoro and Endrick.
The Belgium international sat down to discuss his selection – and a range of other topics – with the Rising Ballers YouTube channel and reveale which of Chelsea’s young players could be on that list in the future.
‘Let me think… Ithink Tyrique George, I see Josh Acheampong,’ Lavia replie.
‘You guys probably don’t know him… well you probably do know him… Shim [Mheuka], good striker.
‘Yeah, I would say these three. I’m really confident in their abilities.’
Lavia went on to lift the lid on his own ambitions for the future, both on and off the pitch, and his desire to ‘give back’ to the footballing community.
Off the pitch I want to give back to the community in general because I think, as footballers, we can do a lot more. That’s definitely one thing that I have in my heart,’ he adde.
‘Obviously the people that are following us all the time… sometimes when we’re playing games and it’s raining and it’s bad weather, we think, “These people are there and they’re singing and they’re behind us all the time”, so it’s just giving that love back as much as I can.
‘On the pitch [I want to achieve] a lot. I’m aiming for the highest so every title that is there for me to grab then I will go for it. All the trophies I can think of, I’m going for it.’
While Lavia described playing against Cristiano Ronaldo as the ‘highlight’ of his career thus far, he picke fellow countryman Kevin De Bruyne as the ‘toughest’ opponent he had ever faced on the pitch.
Asked whether Ronaldo was the toughest player he had come up against, Lavia replied: ‘The toughest? Probably not because we’re not directly against each other.
‘The hardest I would probably say Kevin De Bruyne because I’d been with him for a full year at Manchester City in training, watching his moves, and then I moved to Southampton, played against him, thinking I know him… I didn’t know him!
‘That was probably the toughest opponent I’ve played against, yeah.’