Like Salah? Or KDB?
We don’t have a great record of keeping our best youngsters because it was so difficult to break into an established (under Roman). The new model means all of our players are young but we seem to ask that they perform week in week out like our successful teams of the past.
I’m not saying criticism is all bad but I think we need to be mindful of who we are criticising
Lesley has spat the dummy at Southampton and deleted all mention of them due to lack of game time. This is the difficulty for the loan players. Santos found the same scenario last season at Forest.
Of course not all will make it at Chelsea but the fans can be a bit better encouraging them instead of ripping them a new arsehole or the trope of “he’s simply not good enough” when we have actual evidence of that not being the case re Salah, KDB, Cucu etc.
Some of these young players need more time to get there.