Some Chelsea fans are not happy right now with the treatment of some players, and this could well lead to some player becoming unhappy witnessing this too.
Chelsea need to be wary of unrest and may need to be a bit smarter in the way they go about their business. Players need to be sold, but there is a right way and a wrong way of doing this, and I’m not sure Chelsea are doing it the right way at the moment.
There are many situations that Chelsea fans will draw on, mainly how Cobham graduates Trevoh Chalobah and Conor Gallagher have been treated. Gallagher has been sent on a wild goose chase before finally joining Atletico Madrid this summer, and Chalobah is now being forced out the club, pretty much physically, after they signed him to a new long term contract recently.
Raheem Sterling is now the latest Chelsea player to be physically forced out of the club. Whether you rate Sterling or not, Telegraph journalist Jason Burt thinks it’s no way to treat one of your own players and will only discourage new players thinking about joining Chelsea.
Burt wrote:
‘This is no way to treat Sterling. This is no way to treat anyone. And it should serve as a warning to any player who is considering a move to Chelsea in the future. Agents may try to persuade them otherwise, that they are the one the club really, really wants. But that can quickly change. Yes, Sterling should have played better. But what about Conor Gallagher?
‘Chelsea are going about this the wrong way. It is too extreme and too brutal – despite Maresca, whose authority already looks undermined, balking at that word. Chelsea are treating players like commodities or stocks to be bought and sold.. But then the owners are acting like what they look like: venture capitalists.’
I’ve heard from a source that there has started to be some mumblings of frustrations about how some of the players have been treated in recent weeks. Remember, players become friends, and it’s never going to be easy seeing your friend treated in a way that you don’t like or agree with. And however you look at these situations and however much you want a player sold, I think there has at the very least been a lack of respect with how some of this has been handled. That kind of thing might be necessary, but there are certain ways of going about your business, and a lot of this has not sat well with me, and it hasn’t for a few players either. I’m not saying there is discontent in the camp or anything major like that, but there’s been some conversations and some just acknowledging that it’s not been great how some of it has been handled. There’s always a human aspect to these things.
For what it’s worth, I’m OK with selling most of the aforementioned players above, but I just don’t think these situations have been handled well at all, and that can have implications.
