The Athletic‘s article published today on the nightmare at Chelsea is full of juicy details about what is going on in the club’s death spiral.
The primary issue identified by the anonymous source at the club – a long time employee – is the size of the squad.
There is talk of queues in the canteen, and the dressing room has famously been expanded to accommodate all the new faces.
It’s all just so frustrating because anyone with any knowledge of understanding of football could have warned the new ownership about this from day one. Buying a load of new players is very disruptive, as has been established for a long time. Buying a load of new players without being able to sell the old ones is clearly infinitely worse.
That’s what you get if you sack the people who know what they’re doing before you’ve got new ones ready to replace them.
