One journalist is now claiming that he believes players will think twice before joining Chelsea after watching on and seeing how they have treated their own players this summer.
There are many situations that Chelsea fans will draw on, mainly how Cobham graduates Trevoh Chalobah and Conor Gallagher have been treated. Gallagher has been sent on a wild goose chase before finally joining Atletico Madrid this summer, and Chalobah is now being forced out the club, pretty much physically, after they signed him to a new long term contract recently.
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Raheem Sterling is now the latest Chelsea player to be physically forced out of the club. Whether you rate Sterling or not, Telegraph journalist Jason Burt thinks it’s no way to treat one of your own players and will only discourage new players thinking about joining Chelsea.
Chelsea treat players like commodities
Burt wrote:
‘This is no way to treat Sterling. This is no way to treat anyone. And it should serve as a warning to any player who is considering a move to Chelsea in the future. Agents may try to persuade them otherwise, that they are the one the club really, really wants. But that can quickly change. Yes, Sterling should have played better. But what about Conor Gallagher?
‘Chelsea are going about this the wrong way. It is too extreme and too brutal – despite Maresca, whose authority already looks undermined, balking at that word. Chelsea are treating players like commodities or stocks to be bought and sold.. But then the owners are acting like what they look like: venture capitalists.’
For goodness sake, this is PROFESSIONAL football! Of course the players are commodities, and talk any of them they will tell you it’s a cutthroat business where you’re career can turn on one bad match or injury. Abramovich was lauded for his ruthlessness, but because the ownership is American the preferred narrative from day one has been that they don’t know what they’re doing. Well, don’t look now, but Americans can be just as ruthless as any Russian, lol!