Do you ever get that moment when you are sorting things out at home, and you suddenly find something that is better, more valuable and a bit classier that you thought?

Depending on what age you are, that might be going through photos on your smart phone and spotting a classic picture you had taken that you had swiped over too quickly. If you are much older you might be leafing through your music collection and you find a tune that went straight over your head years ago, but on listening with more sophisticated ears, you realise it is a classic. You owned it and yet you had no idea because it was buried deep down in the rest of your collection.

I was thinking along these lines during the pre-season games when Thomas Tuchel was clearly sifting through the multitude of players at his disposal. At the time I wondered if he was just flicking through nonchalantly or in fact sifting meticulously, looking for some valuable hidden gem that he might uncover.

I am guessing most of you are ahead of me by now, but whatever search method he used he clearly spotted something shiny that caught his eye. On Saturday the rest of the Premier League got its first glimpse of Tuchel’s trawling and Trevoh Chalobah sparkled with one of those league debuts that players dream of, and that headline writers become giddy at the thought of.

Don’t you just love those moments when a player apparently arrives out of nowhere and startles with his performance. Of course, Trevoh didn’t come out of nowhere if you are a student of the game outside the Premier League, or if you are a committed Chelsea addict, but if you are an ordinary fan who doesn’t follow Chelsea, this looked for all the world like the unveiling of an overnight sensation.

I think we all love those moments when we get the first true viewing of a new talent, and they are seared on our minds. Remember Billy Gilmour against Liverpool when the scrawny kid controlled the midfield against one of the great teams in Europe. It doesn’t have to be a debut, just a moment very early in a player’s career when you find yourself looking at the supporter sitting next to you and the wide eyes of both of you say everything.

I was at a game the other week when precisely the same thing happened, up in Scotland. Celtic’s new player Kyogo Furuhashi scored a hat-trick, could have had six and had all the hallmarks of a world-class striker. I watched and listened as it quickly dawned on the fans that they were witnessing a moment that would be talked about for years.

For Trevoh there will be ups and downs, there always are. However, his start-of-season statement has been phenomenal, especially when you consider this is not any old team he has muscled his way into over the period of a few weeks; this is the European Champions and many people's favourites to be Premier League title winners.

When you consider his reaction after hammering in that 25-yarder to underline his arrival, you can tell there is no way that Trevoh is going to get carried away. Neither should anyone else just yet, but we are allowed to be very excited by the occasion. Those moments are why we love the game.

On top of that it was another dominant display on the field throughout the team and in the technical area as well. You almost felt sorry for Crystal Palace as they were blown away in every department. They have made more changes than anyone else and it was without doubt a great time and place to meet them, but it was the perfect start to the campaign nonetheless. Other up-and-coming games will not be similar Saturday afternoon walks in the park, we all know that, but it looked very similar to most of the campaign under Thomas last season, which is very encouraging.

We also have yet another fabulous option now that Romelu Lukaku has joined the club and is raring to get on the field and on the scoresheet. The most intriguing thing about the return of our old boy is how much he has adapted in the intervening years. I am thinking less about his time at Everton and Manchester United and more about his Italian sojourn. Thomas Tuchel has been clear about why he wanted the Belgian and it is hard to doubt that he knows exactly what he is doing. Anyone who can do what Thomas did in six short months, finishing with that call for Kepa to go in goal for the penalties against Villareal, either knows exactly what he is doing or is the luckiest man alive. I suspect the former!

A little while back I made the point there are an incredible number of players at Chelsea who can grab the headlines on any given week. And that there are any number of players capable of being the most important player by the end of the season. We have just added Romelu to that extensive list, so good luck if you have had a bet on who is going to be Chelsea’s Player of the Year for the coming season. It is impossible to gauge. I could maybe whittle it down to a short list of about 14 likely candidates just now - that is the mark of how high the quality levels are.

It was interesting to see how much Man City missed Kevin De Bruyne at the weekend. Our squad is so strong that we coped admirably without N’Golo Kante, Thiago Silva, Romelu Lukaku and Hakim Ziyech! Each of whom could be a gamechanger for us when playing.

Maybe it would be stretching it a bit to suggest Trevoh Chalobah could be in the running for Player of the Year if he kept up this standard of early-season form. That would be unfair pressure, anyway. It is, however, a huge lift when you come into the team young, then the Chelsea fans immediately take to you as one of their own. For that reason, nothing is impossible for any player at this club. I remember a youngster coming into the team many years ago, who totally unexpectedly got a place in the side and then went on to win Player of the Year that season. Modesty, however, doesn’t allow me to mention his name!