Despite several high-profile departures from Stamford Bridge, Chelsea are just as strong as last season, says Willian.
The Premier League champions allowed long-serving captain John Terry, influential midfielder Nemanja Matic to leave the club in the summer and have agreed to sell striker Diego Costa to Atletico Madrid.
However, Antonio Rudiger, Alvaro Morata and Tiemoue Bakayoko have been brought in to replace that trio, meaning nothing has changed at the club, according to their Chelsea’s Brazil forward.
“These players are great players, we miss these players, but Chelsea always try to bring players with quality,” Willian told Soccer Saturday.
“I think the players that arrive have the quality to play here and the squad and the team are still strong. And we have to push till the end of the season.
“It is difficult to talk about that because of course when you lose players like that, it is bad. But we have great players here and we have to be happy if you are here, or in Manchester or Madrid.
Sometimes in football it is not important the way you start, it is the way you finish
“You have to try and always play the best football on the pitch.
“It is the same, nothing changes. Of course the players change, but the way we play, nothing changes, we always train in the same way, we always have a plan to come to the game, nothing changes.
“We have to look forward. There are more games coming and we have to be ready.”
