The captain, chief, and legend has spoken girls and gents, and it comes as no shock to listen to him saying principally what now we have all been saying, what the likes of John Obi Mikel, Frank Leboeuf, Frank Lampard, Jody Morris, Joe Cole have been saying, what prime pundits and journos have been saying, and hundreds extra have been saying.
In a nutshell, Chelsea’s struggles and lack of success to this point is because of an immature workforce that lacks leaders.
That is Chelsea’s present ‘management group’ in line with The Athletic…
Reece James
Enzo Fernandez
Moises Caicedo
Levi Colwill
“Uncle” Tosin
Marcus Bettinelli
OK, so now we have an damage inclined captain, who does seem like rising along with his vocal management abilities however has an extended strategy to go, Fernandez, who is de facto standing up now as a frontrunner granted, Caicedo, who’s extra a frontrunner by instance than the rest, Colwill, who hand ‘yapped’ at his personal followers final week and isn’t but mature sufficient, Tosin, who’s an honest squad participant however not more than that and I additionally don’t even see him that vocal on the pitch, and a goalkeeper who by no means performs so can’t be a significant chief the place it’s wanted, ON the pitch! May as effectively put him with the brand new Rugby chap, as neither can impact management the place it’s most necessary, in-game.
Simply examine this to Chelsea’s management teams of the previous. I do know we must always cease trying again and searching for nostalgia, and soccer has modified, blah blah blah. However there’s completely no cause why we can’t recruit to construct a greater management group and no cause that this has been ignored. There isn’t a cause why we must always not have added stability to our squad construct. It’s actually so easy to deal with, and everyone knows we’d like it.
John Terry factors to the age of the squad as a cause for Chelsea’s struggles:
“We’ve proven indicators of being a very younger squad this season, I say that by way of the performances the place you see a very good spell after which we’ve come off it.”
He additionally stated this on the the UCL, which is the precise mentality that should seep via the membership however has lacked.
“Pay attention, Champions League must be the minimal yearly for me.”
And that is proper, requirements ought to by no means slip it doesn’t matter what. I don’t care that we’re in a undertaking, this mentality wants to remain and that is why Todd Boehly initially noticed the worth of expertise in addition to youth.
A youth-led coverage is nice whether it is executed proper and has added stability with it.
Chelsea have apparently simply dropped one other £12.5m on a 17-year-old left again who will take part 2026.
In case you are persevering with to make signings like this, superb, nice, however if you’re doing this and nonetheless ignoring the right here and now, that turns into unacceptable. If we hear that finds aren’t accessible or PSR restricts us from shopping for elite gamers the place they’re wanted this summer season, then totally count on followers to be offended as soon as once more.
I keep, if Chelsea recruited with added stability and signed key leaders within the backbone with physicality and powerful mentalities and expertise, then we’d be taking part in Champions League soccer THIS season.
However don’t hearken to me repeating myself each week, hearken to the precise specialists I discussed above, as a result of these guys know find out how to win, know find out how to succeed, and know find out how to be in a constant and profitable workforce and know what that takes.
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