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‘We have to be fair’: Pochettino defends Jackson after Shearer and fans’ criticism
(www.theguardian.com)
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He's not a Chelsea level player. Man was moving to Bournemouth in January before a hamstring injury stopped it.
Chelsea threw all of their eggs into the "they will come good" basket and it is not going to pay off.
"Chelsea level" that's mid table mate, he fits right in. These man don't learn, spunk 30 million on a man because of one purple patch when he was arse beforehand. Don't even blame him though, Chelsea ruin players.
The worrying thing for Chelsea (and Utd) is that at the minute you look at the table and the teams above them are all solid, effective teams. It’s unlikely over the next few seasons they’ll all stay at that level of course, but even so it’s a problem.
In the past when they (or Liverpool, or Arsenal) have fallen out the top four it was very easy to see it as a blip even if the fall was heavy and somewhat prolonged. The way back up was still generally relatively clear - when Chelsea finished 10th it was still something of a joke to say they were a “mid table” side (indeed - they won it the next year!).
At the minute it’s hard to see how that is the case anymore though, the strength in depth across the top half of the league is enormous. Chelsea are currently mid table, it’s not a flippant thing to say, and they have a huge task to turn that around.
I wouldn’t say we ruin players. But all of them are quite young and inexperienced, at this level and to the country. Chelsea are correctly a mid table team, and have been a relegation form team for a while now.
But the club implied level is top 4, so the pressure and mentality is something all the young players have to experience, work through and get better from. Sadly football isn’t football manager for us Chelsea fans. For a while now, the squad is mentally weak, and many coaches haven’t been able to find a way to break down a low block with the squad.