For those who missed it at the moment, Chelsea launched an official assertion on their web site as a direct message to the fanbase.
A reminder of what it mentioned right here:
‘It’s been simply over a 12 months since we accomplished our buy of Chelsea. It was and stays a privilege for us to be custodians of our great membership. Twelve months on, we need to take the chance to talk on to all of you, our supporters, as we replicate on the season simply gone.‘
‘Our promise to you was to make our followers proud. We stay fully dedicated to the long run and sustainable success of our membership and fulfilling that promise we made to you. We all know the large potential we should develop to develop Chelsea FC and it’s a function we take critically. All people working right here is relentlessly targeted on driving us ahead.‘
‘Clearly, for our males’s workforce, it has been a disappointing season and there’s a lot we will and can do higher. All through these tough intervals, our followers have supported our gamers and our workforce throughout the nation, and Europe with unfailing loyalty. We couldn’t be extra grateful to your unbelievable assist. The environment on the Bridge once we performed Dortmund will stay lengthy in our reminiscences and serves as an vital reminder of the place we need to be.‘
‘Our girls’s workforce has celebrated one other astonishing season, successful the Double with an unprecedented fourth successive WSL title and third successive FA Cup. While we simply fell brief within the Champions League, the workforce performed in entrance of unbelievable crowds at Stamford Bridge and demonstrated their high quality in opposition to the most effective European sides. There aren’t sufficient optimistic issues to say about Emma Hayes, her backroom workers, and squad who’ve handled adversity, damage and Emma’s interval of absence. Their character and starvation to win is second to none. We had been additionally delighted to see Emma named the LMA’s WSL Supervisor of the 12 months and Sam Kerr successful the FWA Girls’s Footballer of the 12 months award back-to-back.‘
‘For all of the challenges of the previous 12 months, we’re optimistic concerning the future. We’re trying ahead to welcoming Mauricio Pochettino as the pinnacle coach of our males’s workforce in July. We’re constructing a contemporary scouting, expertise identification, and recruiting infrastructure inside our sporting division, led by Laurence Stewart and Paul Winstanley, which is able to assist us to establish and remodel the squad round elite expertise, a squad able to constantly competing to win the Premier League, increase home cups and compete and win on the highest stage in European soccer. We’ve got additionally appointed Chris Jurasek as CEO to drive our enterprise ahead off the pitch, which in flip will make us extra sustainable on the pitch.‘
‘The success we’re aiming for is just attainable with our supporters behind us. We’re happy with the creation of our Fan Advisory Board, which is able to meet for the primary time over this summer season, and we’re assured its new members will guarantee you might be on the coronary heart of resolution making at our membership. We are going to proceed to make sure your voices are heard as we glance to the long run.
‘For now, on behalf of the board and everybody on the membership, thanks to your excellent assist. We hope you all have a very good summer season and look ahead to welcoming you again to the Bridge in August.’
The message was signed off from ‘The Chelsea Possession Group’ – which was good because it felt collective.
Before everything, I applaud this transfer. We’ve got ALL been calling for this, particularly after the terrible season we now have simply endured. After all, Roman Abramovich was by no means one to speak to the followers both, particularly within the latter years, so why we anticipate this from the brand new homeowners is usually debated. However it’s one thing that all of us would have preferred extra of from Roman, and so due to this fact we requested for extra of from the brand new homeowners.
It’s so vital to learn this message as a fan throughout this time. There’s loads of toxicity amongst the Chelsea fanbase proper now, a lot of whom are drastically shedding religion within the possession, or have already misplaced religion within the possession.
My religion is just not misplaced, I nonetheless maintain the identical perception that our homeowners can be profitable right here, the identical perception I held from day one. While I’ve been calling out errors and can proceed to take action (I can’t blindly observe), I’ve and can proceed to focus on the numerous good issues they’ve carried out and can proceed to do additionally. It’s so vital for us to offer our judgements of this possession with as a lot stability as attainable.
While it’s vital to additionally supply critique the place we see match, we also needs to be praising the nice issues they do – and there was lots. It’s not going to assist anybody if we begin creating agendas or narratives which are massively unbalanced. We’re all on this collectively on the finish of the day, and there may be not one bone in my physique that believes that the homeowners shouldn’t have ambition to get us to the very prime – the exact same ambition as us followers.
They’ve made errors, and so they even now publicly acknowledge that on this direct message to us followers. And that’s what all of us wished, proper? They’re actually doing that right here.
We all know there was some large errors. However that doesn’t imply we can not nonetheless go ahead. Among the errors in hindsight have been costly, and the board will know this. However with all new ownerships there may be at all times errors, issues will at all times take time. The teething issues would possibly nonetheless happen and we would nonetheless must dampen expectations for subsequent season a bit of a minimum of.
However with Mauricio Pochettino on the helm, we now have received our excellent supervisor to steer us within the distinctive scenario we’re in proper now, there aren’t any higher choices than him. He must be given the instruments and all the assistance attainable, and we should all totally get behind him; the followers, the board, and the gamers should get behind him. It’s crucial to our success shifting ahead that all of us do that proper now.
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There can be many extra issues and conditions going ahead that may frustrate us, however I wasn’t anticipating all the pieces to be wild summer season flowers and recent air – all of us have completely different opinions in soccer and all of us suppose completely different. However as at all times, I’ll 100% be voicing my considerations once I see match.
However this direct message to the followers has actually happy me and I totally applaud it. It’s precisely what we wanted to see; acknowledgement and them listening to the followers, and reacting to us. This have to be praised.
Actions converse louder than phrases after all, however this can be a good ‘begin’ as such.
We’ve got an extended summer season forward now, one which the board have to get as near excellent as attainable. Quite a bit hangs on the selections we make within the subsequent couple of months. Numerous followers are on a little bit of a knife edge proper now with the possession, and this summer season may decide which route they fall off the knife in. If we get this summer season spot on, then I’ve no doubts in any respect that we’ll be up difficult for prime 4 once more subsequent season, after which constructing on that the season after.
It’ll take time, however I’m nonetheless adamant that Chelsea can be again on the prime once more underneath this possession. I’ve many causes to nonetheless be backing them. However I’ll at all times name issues as I see them. Stability is so vital proper now.
