A lot is made about the way the club is run from top to bottom and how it is affecting the first team and why we keep having average/sh*t seasons, now while it may be true to a certain extent if it was such a huge issue we would see other areas of the club affected, but outside of the first team, things actually run as smoothly as you could ever wish. Our youth teams dominate to an extent not seen since the Busby Babes and the Women are constantly there or thereabouts, so it's clear there's a structure here that runs down the levels successfully so why are the men's first team failing where every other Chelsea side are succeeding?

Do we not appoint appropriate managers to keep the steam of success up? Mourinho and Conte were successful with the remit they were given but their style and ethos was the opposite of the way we play at youth level (even if the youth managers changed formation to Conte's 3atb when he arrived). We have tried every formula appointing managers from serial winners to stubborn philosophers, could we have been missing a trick all along with the boot room policy? We do it upto the reserves with the managers but after that the route is blocked, maybe the left field route of promoting from within (or Lamps/Jody) will be the start of sorting the identity crisis for the first team? All our successful youth/women sides have Chelsea people incharge who get the club, maybe it's time we tried that with the first team as well?

Another reason could be the players aren't as big "fans" per se of the club as in the other teams. Now while i think the notion that they turn it on and off when they please is bolax, we do lack a core of players who have Chelsea integrated into them (so to speak) compared to the last era or even the late 90's, and that could mean they subconsciously don't go the extra mile.

Either way the club are failing the first team despite everything running smoothly underneath, so the reason for that needs to be identified sooner rather than later.

Emenalo is to blame.  

5 hours ago, TheChelsRVA said:

Emenalo is to blame.  

Wrong. Kenyon is to blame. 

Blame brexit

It would help if they all played the same formations ... from what I can tell, the only team trying to play the 4-3-3 "Sarriball" is the first team ... the youth are still on Conte's 3-5-2 ...

How do we translate our success (identity/consistency wise) from youth level/women's football to the mens first team?

 

Play them instead of the first team.

Back in the 70's/80's Liverpool had a lot of success promoting coaches from the boot room. Would be interesting to see how we would do with a management team like Steve Holland/Jody Morris for example. If we took that approach we would ensure that new managers understood the club inside and out, and it would probably increase the chances of promoting youth to the first team.