Mancienne

[Spiller86]

But you know full well the abuse and vitriol that a lot of people post on here when we don't win, or even if we win but not convincingly. How do you truly think the match threads would go if we tried Mancienne alongside Terry for a few matches and didn't win them all playing stunningly good football?

You're spot on here. Too many people seem to think that you can have your cake and eat it too. It's simply not possible, I've always said if we wanted to have a couple of years scraping into the top four to bring some players through that would be fine. But we don't win 8-0 these days and the team gets slagged and people expect the manager to be sacked.

Just on that, CFCCAN does make a good point about that as well. If we keep changing the manager every two years, what do they care who is playing for the team in three? There is no incentive for the manager to play younger players because he knows there will be no reward. If as is to be expected the young players have some bad games and we miss out on winning something, he is gone and doesn't reap the rewards if they turn out to be something.

There will never be youth at Chelsea without managerial stability, and it drives me up the wall that people expect one without the other.

 

[The Moos]

Lucky our youth policy is on track! Mancienne gone and Borini about to leave...utter bo**ocks and I have said it all along this team does not have a youth policy because it doesn't have the patience, we breed youth to be traded or sold...not to play regularly in the first team as we would rather buy our way to the top.

Borini wanted to go back to Italy. What should we have done? Said "no, you can't!".

And Mancienne simply wasn't good enough. So why keep him? Just to say "yes, we made him"? bo**ocks.

You can't expect us to get great youngsters each season and you can't expect us to hold on to every one who comes through our youth academy. Those who aren't good enough will leave (and get us some extra money) and those who are good enough might get a shot (like Josh).