Last Saturday, Chelsea could only muster a 2-2 draw against Nottingham Forest at home, and it all began with yet another goalkeeping blunder, this one by Edouard Mendy.
You will pay immediately if the goalkeeper makes a mistake. A goalkeeper making a mistake and giving up a goal is a big deal compared to a striker missing the crucial opportunity and getting away with it.
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We are aware that Mendy needs to improve since he has never been that excellent coming off his line. Next season's events are uncertain, and I'm not sure whether beginning him was the best move.
But to be honest, Chelsea didn’t play well in the first half at all, Frank said that afterwards in the press conference. So somebody had to pay the price and in this case it was Mendy because of the first goal. But overall you have to blame everybody. If they were better we would have beat Nottingham Forest; come on you’re playing at Stamford Bridge and playing against a team fighting against relegation! You have to look at the big picture for this bad result.
I would say over all I saw a good performance from 18-year-old Lewis Hall. Every player needs to show consistency to make it at Chelsea. It’s nice to see young players coming through the academy and making the step up because it’s how it should work. I saw it with big names like John Terry, Jody Morris and now Mason Mount and others. That’s the future of Chelsea. You don’t always need to write a cheque to get a player when you have an academy like Chelsea’s.
I never like to be too hard on some players, I want to respect the man first and I want to respect the player. You don’t play for Liverpool, Man City, and Chelsea being an average player. But when Raheem Sterling arrived at Chelsea I said that he wasn’t the guy to bring you something else, something extra. If Guardiola decided to get rid of him then there must be a reason why. I said £50m was too much for him. But on the field he is not a leader, he is quite clumsy. Even if I was happy to see him scoring two goals against Forest, I have to say that I’m not happy with his performances overall since he arrived. He loses the ball too much, misses chances, and being just too clumsy. He is a big name but let’s say that you want to sell him now to any other club in the world, you will have nobody who will pay what we paid for him. I’m happy that he scored but I think it’s too late to change my mind on him and what he brings to the club.
Chelsea have done the player of the season voting this week which made me laugh a lot. Even if I had one player that I would name, I think this season you would just have to cancel it, because it’s a joke! You could name Thiago Silva maybe, but after that there is nobody. Nobody has been consistent, nobody has been good. Two weeks ago we could have still been relegated mathematically! And now we want to name the player of the year? Come on, we are Chelsea! Have off season, don’t have the player of the year awards, go on holidays, come back and be fresh next season because honesty I don’t want to hear about that. It’s like changing the tyres on your car and putting new tyres on a car with no engine and no windows! It doesn’t make any sense, you can’t go anywhere with that!!
We are still in a complicated situation because of the number of players we have in this squad. As long as Mauricio Pochettino resolves that problem then we can move forward. There’s too many people there for it to work properly right now. I have no doubt that Pochettino can do well, he proved it at Tottenham with the way they played, the way the players worked together and reaching the Champions League final. How it’s going to work at Chelsea we have no idea yet. We need to see how he is going to define the squad first, and then define how we play and the way of thinking and working hard from the players who are nowhere near it right because they don’t know what to do and do not have their heads in it.
I saw Pochettino having some troubles at PSG, but that’s quite understandable because he’s not the first and won’t be the last who experiences that there.
I absolutely wish Pochettino the best. I played against him when he was captain of PSG and I was captain of Marseille – so there was a big rivalry. He had his long hair! He’s somebody I always consider as one of the best centre backs that I played against. He was a strong guy, tough, a warrior, and a good mentality. I found him very smart the way he thinks about football when he talks and he is a very interesting guy. Hopefully he is going to bring what we are expecting from him at Chelsea – success.
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