Chelsea’s present points for me are fairly apparent, and the extra I go searching, hear, and skim, most Chelsea followers suppose the identical factor.
For me, Mauricio Pochettino isn’t tactically ok as a supervisor and must be changed in the summertime. However the issues are larger and wider than that, with the principle one being the naive squad rebuild.
I’ve seen SO many pundits, specialists, former execs, former Chelsea gamers, and SO many Chelsea followers saying the identical factor. However the determination makers at Chelsea don’t see to see it, or in the event that they do, they’re digging their heels in, ignoring it, and foolishly backing their very own choices.
I’ll let former Chelsea participant Florent Malouda clarify it although, as a result of he’s somebody who has truly performed the sport at a prime degree and for a profitable Chelsea crew, and he actually is aware of what he’s speaking about right here.
In a latest interview, Malouda mentioned:
“I used to be at Stamford Bridge watching the Leicester sport within the FA Cup, Chelsea had been enjoying with lots of depth, and every thing appeared sensible till it wasn’t. It solely takes one mistake to knock the boldness out of this Chelsea crew after which the chaos begins.
“The Chelsea gamers have to develop a capability to regulate their feelings on the pitch. They don’t have the emotional stability that means that you can hold management of the sport, and that’s right down to the composition of the squad. Whenever you selected to deal with a mission with principally younger gamers, you’ll at all times discover this inconsistency as a result of all of those gamers are studying on the identical time.
“I believe a participant like Actual Madrid’s Toni Kroos is the kind of goal that Chelsea ought to be wanting to herald this summer time. He’s an skilled participant with lots of pedigree. Chelsea want one or two gamers like Kroos. Gamers who’ve such a excessive soccer IQ that they’ll analyse each situation on the pitch, take the fitting choices and lead the crew. That is the kind of profile I’d be trying to deliver into the membership over the summer time. We want skilled, formidable gamers who need to be a part of a really thrilling Chelsea mission subsequent 12 months.”
So in a nutshell, he’s saying that Chelsea have signed inexperienced, uncooked, younger gamers, which is a reality, and so they have ignored confirmed expertise and high quality to stability it up, which can also be a reality.
For this reason I say the squad rebuild has been naive at greatest. And as I say above, I’ve seen SO many individuals say precisely the identical factor. We lack leaders, sturdy mentalities, and gamers who’ve been there and executed it. Stability is SO essential, and we don’t have it, and as Malouda explains above, this has been so clear and evident in video games this season.
So if we will all see it, why can’t the choice makers? As I say, it looks as if they’re simply going all out to again their very own choices made in recruitment and don’t need to settle for that it’s failing. I’m positive the info says that we ought to be higher off than the place we’re proper now (it does, as Pochettino desperately drew on that too in a latest interview). However the reality is, whether or not we ought to be higher within the league proper now or not, if we had been smarter in our recruitment and never ignored high quality expertise, then I really consider we might be a lot better than we at the moment are, and higher than any knowledge may be claiming too.
For me, and for SO many others, it’s THAT easy, and Chelsea NEED to appropriate it this summer time.
