Now with Terry in his last year and Cahill having an indifferent year we have possibly reached a state where there is no english player in our starting 11 - Not good news. We also continue to keep recruiting at youth level from Lat-am countries + first team foreign purchases. One good way to start building the english core in our squad is to link it with our youth development. We now have a U21 squad which formed the core of Eng U21, hence we should develop them to our first team/ squad players. I would love to see this team play in one of the friendlies to assess their condition-

 

Blackman

 

Aina- Tomori- JCS- Dasilva

 

Chalobah

 

RLC-Colkett

 

Bamford- Palmer

 

Solanke

 

Add baker, brown, swift to that and we have a decent ENGLISH chelsea squad-

Atleast 4-5 players from this group should be in our 25 for next year

 

P.S.

 

Other developmental 11 who need to be tested in preseason are:

 

Collins

 

Kalas- Miazga- Papy- Baba

 

Moses- Hector- MvG-  Kennedy

 

Traore- Tammy

 

Every year this is said and every year the same thing happens. The youth will impress in pre season then be shipped out on loan or left to rot in the reserves.