The captain, chief, and legend has spoken girls and gents, and it comes as no shock to listen to him saying mainly what we now 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 masses extra have been saying.
In a nutshell, Chelsea’s struggles and lack of success thus far is because of an immature staff that lacks leaders.
That is Chelsea’s present ‘management group’ in response to The Athletic…
Reece James
Enzo Fernandez
Moises Caicedo
Levi Colwill
“Uncle” Tosin
Marcus Bettinelli
OK, so we now have an damage susceptible captain, who does look like rising along with his vocal management expertise however has a protracted strategy to go, Fernandez, who is actually 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 a good 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 properly put him with the brand new Rugby chap, as neither can impact management the place it’s most vital, in-game.
Simply evaluate this to Chelsea’s management teams of the previous. I do know we must always cease trying again and looking for nostalgia, and soccer has modified, blah blah blah. However there’s completely no motive why we can’t recruit to construct a greater management group and no motive that this has been ignored. There is no such thing as a motive why we must always not have added steadiness to our squad construct. It’s actually so easy to handle, and everyone knows we’d like it.
John Terry factors to the age of the squad as a motive 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 mentioned this on the the UCL, which is the precise mentality that should seep by 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 mission, 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 performed proper and has added steadiness 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 in case you are 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 time, then absolutely anticipate followers to be indignant as soon as once more.
I keep, if Chelsea recruited with added steadiness and signed key leaders within the backbone with physicality and robust mentalities and expertise, then we might be taking part in Champions League soccer THIS season.
However don’t take heed to me repeating myself each week, take heed 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 staff and know what that takes.
