Gallagher has learned to foul smartly and is improving on the ball under Mauricio Pochettino
He first joined Cobham in 2008 and didn’t make his club debut for 14 years. At 17, all his peers were getting professional contracts, but a mid-teen struggle with knee issues meant Gallagher was only offered a scholarship.
Yet this may be no bad thing. Before this season, Gallagher was shown a Premier League yellow card every 4.8 fouls, but this season it’s one every 17. He’s learning how to foul smarter, more tactically, a hallmark of great pressing midfielders. Here is an industrious midfielder within the great English tradition reimagined for the modern game, a talent developed and realised through hard graft and a desperation to succeed. Here is Conor Gallagher, human Polyfilla, relentlessly pressing and attacking space like it insulted his mother, perhaps Chelsea’s best player so far under Mauricio Pochettino.
In a footballing age where 18- and 19-year-olds taking top clubs by storm is not so much normality as expectation, Gallagher has had a linear progression seen far more often 20 years ago. The Blues sent him to Swansea instead, where he managed seven assists while helping Steve Cooper’s side make it to the play-offs. He then spent 2020-21 with another side fated to relegation, West Brom, but had his first taste of Premier League football under Slaven Bilic and later Sam Allardyce.
Every coach Gallagher works with appears to be almost instantly won over to his merits. Pochettino appointed him captain in Reece James and Ben Chilwell’s absence, while Gareth Southgate took him to the 2022 World Cup amid an incredibly strong field.
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