Chelsea manager, Enzo Maresca, recently noted that the likes of Raheem Sterling, Trevoh Chalobah and others wouldn’t see a single minute of action for the first-team, and they’d be well advised to seek alternative employment in the current transfer window.
It was as direct an instruction as it’s possible to be.
There’s no grey area in what Maresca said and it leaves no room for doubt, which could be taken as a positive in that he could’ve just left them to rot on the sidelines. At least this way, the players are being given the opportunity to get out.
However, it’s a ‘bomb squad’ tactic that doesn’t sit at all well with Stan Collymore. So much so, that he’s not far off advocating that players sue their current employers if something similar keeps happening.
Chelsea’s ‘bomb squad’ criticised by Collymore
“Football back in the day effectively mirrored the army in terms of training methodology and behavioural methodology. Often football teams would literally go and train at army camps […] the whole thing was about team discipline,” he said to CaughtOffside for his exclusive column.
“The Army is very closely aligned to football in the sense that playing football in front of 50,000 people is quite an extreme thing to do just as being in the Army is extreme.
“Football apprentices had to spend seven or eight hours sweeping the stands and it felt like a punishment. You got punished too if you didn’t clean the dressing rooms properly, or if you didn’t clean your pros kit properly.
“The bomb squad, as it was known across football, was another example of that. ‘If you don’t do this right, you’re going to get the army discipline treatment.’
“Of course, things have changed greatly and for the better, so that we now are very aware that if you sign an employment contract, you should be signing an employment contract for the duration of that contract and be what you were bought as, which is a senior professional footballer.
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Author : Jason Pettigrove
Publish date : 2024-08-30 10:46:34
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