The Club World Cup won’t stop Chelsea.
The Lev Yashin snub for Edouard Mendy - overlooked despite being the best keeper of 2021 - won’t hurt Chelsea.
Last Sunday's Premier League draw at home to a Manchester United side they should have slaughtered won’t bother Chelsea.
Nor will the loss of Romelu Lukaku, Mateo Kovacic, Ben Chilwell or anyone else in the Chelsea squad who has been in the wars lately.
In fact, it's getting to the stage where the only potential obstacles to the Blues building on their Champions League success is themselves.
Theirs is the best defensive record in the top five leagues.
Their £100million striker, Lukaku, has been missing for their five wins from their last eight games. They drew the others, easing past Southampton on penalties, suffering an off-day at home to Burnley and succumbing yet again to their hoodoo against United which has seen them fail to win any of their last eight in the Premier League..
But the truth is, Chelsea have arguably the best-balanced squad in the top flight. They are flying because they have a solution for every problem.
They can generally find a route to the three points - be they in the Premier League or the Champions League - because they have multiple points of attack.
It doesn’t have to be pretty but it generally is. The fluidity of their attack means you can never quite tell where the sucker punch will come from.
We learned from last Sunday that despite the hysteria suggesting Jorginho is the third-best player in the world, he isn’t in the same time zone at Chelsea as N’Golo Kante - who would not have let Jadon Sancho smell the ball, much-less whip it off his toes to race clear and score last Sunday.
So no, Chelsea don’t need to worry about fixture congestion when the Club World Cup looms into view in February.
This time around the tournament is held early in the year, not the busy December period.
It does clash with the Africa Cup of Nations - which ends on February 6 - meaning Chelsea could be without keeper Mendy and winger Hakim Ziyech if Senegal and Morocco have good runs.
But Kepa Arrizabalaga has his confidence back under Thomas Tuchel and Chelsea have any number of players able to play in Ziyech’s position.
Add to that the fact that the European Champions have the quality in their squad to beat UAE champions Al Jazira, Oceania representatives Auckland or Asian champions Al Hilal to a prize that has only ever had two English winners - Liverpool two years ago and United in 2008.
They’ll take nothing for granted. Chelsea’s players who’d hoped to conquer the world in 2012 were left disconsolate after being humbled by Corinthians.
But this is a Blues squad capable of conquering Europe, coming first in perhaps the toughest Premier League title race there has been for some time and maximising the very expensive sum of the parts at Stamford Bridge.
In that regard Tuchel’s job so far has been massively underrated. Good head coaches get it done. Elite head coaches make it look easy.
Tuchel does that, cruising through press conferences with his customary verve and courteous responses to even the most banal of questions.
PSG's Qatari owners must wonder how on earth they contrived to let the guy leave Paris when he rocks up in London and wins the one trophy they’d give their collective right arm for.
Not only that, he looks a terrific bet to do it for a second time next summer.
"We've won it all!" Chelsea's fans routinely sing home and away. This season they really could do just that - all in the same campaign.
In fact, whisper it quietly but if they finish top of their Champions League group after Matchday Six and PSG end up second in theirs, Tuchel could even have the rather satisfying chance to put his former club out of the competition.
And no, they won’t stop him either.
