Former Chelsea boss Frank Lampard has adbised the Blues management to sign matured players capable of helping the team succeed in the Premier League.
Recall that the club sit 6th in the league after a 3-0 loss to Brighton at the weekend, they are out of both domestic cups and their only hope of silverware is the Conference League.
In an interview with the club’s website, Lampard feel the transfer strategy needs to change before the average age of the squad is lowered any further which may lead to even further disappointment.
“You have to be very careful to point fingers at the manager himself or point fingers at young players that are trying to find form in a team that hasn’t really got an experienced spine there that they can rely on and look up to,” he said.
“The strategy has been to bring in young players. You’ve got young kids coming over at 21 from another country, trying to fit into a team now. I’m not saying ‘in my day’, but in my day, when you bring in those younger players, they sit themselves on the bench, or they train alongside and watch how competitive it is in training. Watching (Didier) Drogba and how he trains. John Terry and how he leads the club.
“And they )the young players) learn and then they get into the team, or they don’t and they don’t come through at Chelsea. To ask a lot of players to do that at the same time and develop is not an easy thing. I think we’ve got to be very careful.
“The strategy will, of course, be questioned and there probably will have been things that have been done that you can look at now that have been done and think, ‘Could it have been different?’ Yes. It’s getting it right now and changing it but it’s going to be a process.”
(Complete Sports)
