A report from The Athletic has given some very intriguing information about what is going on at Chelsea.
The Blues are facing a bottom-half finish – which would be their worst-ever finish in the Premier League.
They are currently six points off 10th-placed Fulham with six games remaining.
Unfortunately for them, they still have to face every team currently occupying the top four spots in the table – with only one of those fixtures being played at Stamford Bridge.
To say it has been a difficult season at Stamford Bridge would be the understatement of the century.
Now on their fourth different manager this term, the Blues have lost five in a row under Frank Lampard, who is expected to remain in charge until the end of the season.
A Todd Boehly-led consortium purchased the club from Roman Abramovich last year and the American billionaire has made his intentions clear, signing over £500million worth of players.
Furthermore, the majority of players brought in have signed long-term contracts, while some players who were already at the club have committed their future to the Blues.
The number of players joining the club (eight in the summer and eight in January) has created a bizarre situation in West London.
Managing such a bloated squad cannot be easy as you are guaranteed to have several unhappy players, and it was arguably Graham Potter’s downfall.
The Athletic have given us an insight into what the f**k is going on at Stamford Bridge, and it is superb.
From anonymous sources to outrageously long queues in the canteen, there is a lot to absorb from this report. Strap in.
‘A veteran Chelsea employee’ told The Athletic: “It is as bad as I have ever known it.”
This is particularly telling as the anonymous member of staff has been at the club ‘for many years’. What they have to say has been ‘echoed elsewhere by sources contacted’. Yikes.
Unsurprisingly, morale is at an all-time low with ‘bad results and performances’ causing it to ‘nosedive’ and there is a feeling that ‘it will take more than a few wins to galvanise the dressing room again’.
One ‘significant factor’ is the squad size. ‘Over 30’ players are reporting for training every day, which leaves Lampard and his coaching staff in an ‘impossible’ situation.
Unsurprisingly, Chelsea are looking to offload several players in the summer transfer window, the report states.
This will make the situation ‘more manageable’, although there remains a ‘financial…
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