If there's someone that may be looking forward to the upcoming round of Carabao Cup matches less than two weeks before the first match of the World Cup then it's Levi Colwill.
The Chelsea starlet has played 101 minutes of senior football since joining Brighton over the summer. He nearly joined permanently as part of a parallel deal to Marc Cucurella going to Stamford Bridge but Todd Boehly was determined to keep him, even if Thomas Tuchel wasn't.
For Colwill the deal made a lot of sense. He was one of the best performing centre-backs in the Championship last season as an 18-year-old experiencing his first taste of men's football. Now it looks like time wasted.