The captain, chief, and legend has spoken women and gents, and it comes as no shock to listen to him saying mainly what we have now all been saying, what the likes of John Obi Mikel, Frank Leboeuf, Frank Lampard, Jody Morris, Joe Cole have been saying, what high pundits and journos have been saying, and hundreds extra have been saying.
In a nutshell, Chelsea’s struggles and lack of success up to now is because of an immature group that lacks leaders.
That is Chelsea’s present ‘management group’ based on The Athletic…
Reece James
Enzo Fernandez
Moises Caicedo
Levi Colwill
“Uncle” Tosin
Marcus Bettinelli
OK, so we have now an harm susceptible captain, who does look like rising along with his vocal management abilities however has an extended option 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 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 an important 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 necessary, in-game.
Simply evaluate this to Chelsea’s management teams of the previous. I do know we should always cease wanting again and in search of nostalgia, and soccer has modified, blah blah blah. However there may be completely no purpose why we can not recruit to construct a greater management group and no purpose that this has been ignored. There isn’t any purpose why we should 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 purpose 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 needs to 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 for this reason Todd Boehly initially noticed the worth of expertise in addition to youth.
A youth-led coverage is nice whether it is achieved 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.
If you’re persevering with to make signings like this, positive, 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 out there 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 steadiness and signed key leaders within the backbone with physicality and robust mentalities and expertise, then we’d 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 the way to win, know the way to succeed, and know the way to be in a constant and profitable group and know what that takes.
