This has not a good season for the unity of Chelsea regardless of Benitez’s recent statements. The scandals and the lack of cohesion within the club have left the Blues dreaming about hearing the Champions League anthem during week nights. Although they are still in the race to win the FA Cup and the Europa League trophy, both players and fans seem really disappointed with what the upheaval of this season. For a club as big as the one from Stamford Bridge the Premier League title and the Champions League trophy are the only things that really matter. Just when things were beginning to settle in and scandals seemed to be forgotten, a new controversy hit the news-stands.
According to Dailymail.co.uk, it looks like two of Chelsea’s players who are both currently on loan had a dispute regarding the same woman. Kevin De Bruyne and Courtois are now the subject of all tabloids across Europe because according to rumors, Atletico’s goalkeeper got involved with his teammate’s girlfriend who allegedly moved to Spain to be with the young Belgian. Caroline Lijnen left Germany by saying even though Kevin is playing for Werder Bremen, she is unhappy with living there.
The rumors that followed her moving to Madrid referred to some explicit pictures Caroline sent to Courtois from her Facebook account and also said that De Bruyne is devastated. This piece of news is quite the hot subject for tabloids considering this is not the first time Chelsea has had to deal with image problems caused by a similar love triangle that involved John Terry and Wayne Bridge. All this happened in 2010 and led to an unpleasant series of events for England’s captain who was held responsible for what happened.
In recent reports it seems that even with the situation looking a lot like the one that took place three years back, both De Bruyne and Courtois have managed to get over this incident and sort things out. This statement was issued by a Belgian FA spokesman who even mentioned that the two players can even joke about the incident and that things were just fine when the two were together at the recent Belgian national team match against Macedonia.