“We need to talk about the strategy” – Former Chelsea cult hero slams the owners
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Former Chelsea cult hero Joe Cole sounds like he has had enough of the current Chelsea project under this ownership.
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Cole is often quite opinionated but I don’t think I’ve seen him lose it this much before and fully slam what the current owners are trying to do at the club.
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The reality is of course, Joe Cole is absolutely spot on with his comments below, and I reckon 95% of Chelsea fans will agree with it all….
Cole slams Chelsea project
Joe Cole gesticulates on TNT Sport.
In words picked up by SPTC this week, Cole said:
“The fans are not happy. Since the takeover, they’ve spent £1.5bn. They’ve posted massive losses. They are 4 years into a 5-year plan. It looks like, barring a miracle, they will be out of the Champions League. We need to talk about the strategy, the plan and where the club is going.
“This model of buy young, develop, and put value on. I thought to myself it sounds like buy and sell. Buy loads of players at 21, they will come into their prime at 25, and the average age of a Premier League-winning side is 27. Logically, buy them at 21, 22 or 23.
“Seven-year deals, average age, develop, by the time they are 27, but it seems too data-driven, structured, without the nuance of having senior players, how important that is, the culture, getting fans onside.
“We’re coming up to the fourth year of the masterplan. For all of the chaos of Abramovich’s exit, the plan was always clear. Buy the best players, get the best managers, win every trophy. If they lose games, managers were gone, players were gone, and everyone knew what was going to happen.
“Clearlake have come in and gone, this is too structured, we’re going to try a new long-term plan. The first alarm bell to me is the number of managers sacked. That tells me that it isn’t long-term thinking; it can’t be. If it’s long-term, you stick with a manager.”
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