If as a professional football you cannot do the basics of the game, then why are you playing the game?
It is many young kids dream to be a professional football, some would give anything to be in their boots. So when you see Chelsea players out there right now not even prepared to put in 100% effort, its gets you very frustrated, especially with the amount of money they are all on to go and do something they love.
Some of Chelsea’s players right now are lacking the basics and some just don’t even look like they care. It’s a sad state of affairs.
Frank Lampard said after the game that his players need to show more fight and they need to do the ‘bare minimum’ against Real Madrid on Tuesday if they want to stand any chance of getting anything at all. Yet I can only see more embarrassment coming.
“Disappointing on every level,” Lampard said after losing 2-1 to Brighton on Saturday. “The better team won and could have won by more. They played like a team. They’re working together for a long time, give that credit.
“But it’s not good enough from our point of view. All the basic parts of football — to fight, to run, and those things — we were short on. We have to dig ourselves out of that very quickly.
“We’ve got a big game on Tuesday. There’s no point in being too down, but professionally we have to understand why today went the way it did. And it wasn’t good for us. We have to play with that energy and fight, that’s like the bare minimum. That’s up to us, in terms of the game on Tuesday.”
Quotes via ESPN.
Time to appoint Luis Enrique. I believe his the right manager and coach for my favourite team Chelsea Fc. The new owner he has wealth but has no knowledge to make Chelsea FC successful. He should hire experience and knowledgeable manager that has good man management and sounds tactics to win games . Lampard has a good career as a footballer but not enough experience in managing top club . His tactics is gung ho style . Hope the new owner and his group act now to employ Luis Enrique before to late . Next summer they should buy at least two CM and one CB and striker and a playmaker . Sale those player’s who don’t want to play for my Fav Team . Rebuild solid foundation from to middle through front . Hope they will survive this season and prepare well for next season for success of winning the Premier League.
The first paragraph of this column in a way targets the reason but simply does not identify it. Its all about the Money and if there is a lot of it going around at a particular Club that pays whatever the asking price is then why not. The contracts already signed and these players need not worry about anything at all and that includes giving a good – at least 75% in any given Match.
When it’s all dusted and done The only Loser here will unfortunately be CFC and the legacy forged from 1905. That means nothing to the investors because when they had enough they will just move on.
Let’s suppose for a moment that the real confusion is equating the value of these new contracts in comparison to the true skill level of the players contracted. Has anyone been able to remove for once the £M value of these new players and considered the reality that maybe they are at their own personal best and incapable of performing at the level one expects them too. In other words their monetary value does not in any way impact or measure the skill of these new players, it’s their performance level on match day that does that and these guys have played a lot of matches thus far to justify their true worth. No contract can measure or indicate that. Let’s stop seeing the same mediocre performance every match and hoping the next one will be better. That’s our thoughts on their contract value talking.
If you’ve paid close to attention what Boehly and Co are doing, the newest players are receiving contracts with less guaranteed money than is standard and, instead, are receiving deals laden with incentives based on performance. So, this speculation about “they’ve got their money, so why bother giving effort” is mostly nonsense.
Yes, they looked terrible on Saturday, but it had much more to do with Lampard’s failure to set up the team properly than the individuals themselves. The image of four of our guys holding an impromptu, on-field tactical session during an injury stoppage said volumes. We looked a shambles trying to press Brighton as well as trying to play out of theirs because Lampard has come and tinkered too much with a system (the 3-4-3) that at least had us with heads above water.. Any properly drilled team heads into a match knowing their progressions playing out of the back and their assignments in the press and our guys (a collection of experienced internationals for crying out loud) looked lost. That is ALL ABOUT THE MANAGER! Lampard said it himself—one side (Brighton) played like a team and one side didn’t. Talk about a self own, lol!!! As bad as things may have been under Potter, this was much, much worse.