Chelsea now have no 軍人 in their team of fledglings. Thiago Silva's 出発／死ing leadership 技術s will leave a 無効の... and he could even （人命などを）奪う，主張する to be in their modern best XI, 令状s KIERAN GILL

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Chelsea are not only losing a classy central defender in Thiago Silva. They are losing more prestige, more experience and more professionalism than you 恐れる they can afford in the 中央 of what we may 同様に call '事業／計画（する） 青年'.

Silva, now 39, has 確認するd he will leave when his 契約 満了する／死ぬs at the end of this season. He could have 出発／死d in January when clubs in his 母国 （機の）カム calling but he stayed, having agreed to help Chelsea through to the summer.

Silva 主張するd in his teary 別れの（言葉，会） that he will be 支援する at Cobham someday, most likely in a coaching capacity. He started his UEFA B licence two months ago and 経営者／支配人 Mauricio Pochettino has often 信用d him to 配達する speeches on his に代わって.

That 含むd at half-time of Saturday's 2-2 draw at Aston 郊外住宅. Chelsea were 追跡するing 2-0 at the time when Silva tried to 動かす his young team-mates into believing they could come 支援する. It worked, as they went on to earn the least they deserved in a point.

It を強調するd his level of 影響（力） as a defender so iconic that there were Chelsea fans on Monday happily admitting someone must be cutting onions in their 世帯s upon 審理，公聴会 the news. So iconic that he has a song 指名するd after him by AJ Tracey and Dave which some players choose to 成し遂げる for their initiation.

退役軍人 Chelsea defender Thiago Silva has 確認するd he will leave at the end of the season

In a tearful 別れの（言葉，会） message to 支持者s, Silva dropped a hint he would one day return

So iconic that he could easily （人命などを）奪う，主張する to be a starter in Chelsea's best XI of the modern 時代. If only we could have seen him と一緒に John Terry in that all-星／主役にする team.

Silva himself 成し遂げるd as reliably as ever at 郊外住宅 Park, only days after the sad passing of his grandmother, Dona Maria. It is now 不明瞭な whether he will wear the blue of Chelsea again, having 選ぶd up a groin problem に向かって the end of that 業績／成果.

Whatever happens, he will be at Stamford 橋（渡しをする） for the final game against Bournemouth on May 19 when Chelsea fan group We Are The Shed are planning a special 陳列する，発揮する. That will give the 支持者s their chance to show their 感謝 for the four years he gave them.

But as of next season, Chelsea's fledglings will need to 打ち勝つ not having this 軍人 by their 味方する. It will be 取り組むing and 封鎖するing and 長，率いるing （疑いを）晴らす danger for another club ? かもしれない Fluminense, the Brazilian 味方する who remain 利益／興味d in 妨げるing him from retiring altogether, while he will also have 選択s in England, Italy, Spain and, of course, Saudi Arabia.

Wherever he goes, Silva will remain ひどく 投資するd in Chelsea. His sons, Isago da Silva and Iago da Silva, are both in the club's 学院.?

Silva has been using the Professional Footballers' 協会 to fulfil some of the practical elements of his coaching course ? と一緒に Marc Cucurella, interestingly ? but there is the 可能性 of him using Cobham. Frank Lampard did that before going on to become 経営者／支配人.

It was Lampard who 調印するd Silva on a 解放する／自由な 移転 from Paris Saint-Germain in 2020. 初めは, the 計画（する） was for him to stay a 選び出す／独身 year, hence why he penned such a short 契約. But then followed another year, and then another, and another.

Silva may have played his last game for the club after 苦しむing an 傷害 against Aston 郊外住宅

Mauricio Pochettino's squad will 欠如（する） in experience next season - a 激しい loss for them

Silva memorably 解除するd the 支持する／優勝者s League トロフィー in 2021 and won several other accolades

It soon became 明らかな that, 同様に as his 防御の nous, his leadership 技術s were so 価値のある that they could not let him leave. Silva was not only good for Chelsea.?

They were good for him also, as he finally 解除するd that elusive 支持する／優勝者s League トロフィー which could not be won at PSG.

Chelsea will need to 演説（する）／住所 his 出発 in the summer. In a squad of starlets, he was their 専門家 in experience, and that is a 激しい loss to a changing room that relied on his 発言する／表明する at 郊外住宅 Park and many other 発生地s.