5DOM wrote:Foye wrote:5DOM wrote:cmon now, as you like to remind us, English players are overpriced
Spent only about 7M in transfer fees on two of the better ones.
You know that you are allowed to develop English players yourself rather than having to buy them right?
No matter how high the prices for English players are. Having just two of them on the roster is pathetic. You would figure a semi decent youth academy would produce at least one Emglish player every two-three years who can make the jump to the own pro team. Not at Chelsea it seems.
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That was more of a tongue-in-cheek comment, but anyways, Chelsea have one of the best, if not the best, youth teams in the country and maybe the world - full of English talents across all age groups (something even Liam Brady recently acknowledged). It's simply not that easy to promote youngsters when you have a deep squad of international players. Many of the youth players will be playing professional football elsewhere at least temporarily, and that's simply the development strategy the club decided to take. That doesn't mean there's no youth development going on. We can have the likes of Chalobah sit on the bench this season, but why do that when he can go play in a competitive environment week-in-week-out? We'll see if any of the promising youth players can make it at Chelsea, but I'm confident there will be a lot of Chelsea-produced players playing professional football.
The problem to me seems more that Abramovich & Chelsea want names on the pitch. (English) youth academy players or talents picked up for relatively small amount of money from a different country have no names.
In Barcelona, Madrid or Bayern they don't care what the name of the player is. If the talent is good enough he will be introduced to the first squad and eventually play. If they loan out, it usually is one season, not more.
What Chelsea are doing to their young players is close to slavery. A season in league x for team y "ah you did well but you are still not ready for the first team". Then player goes to league z and plays for team f "you did well but again maybe we should loan you out to a EPL team now".
Then after years of development the player thinks "Hey I'm ready to play in the senior squad now. 3 weeks into the transfer window a new player is bought for 30 mil. € and the player who has spent years developing to finally get a chance of playing for Chelsea is left in the dust.
Chelsea is not the only club who acts like this and it is a good business model but morally extremely questionable if you ask me.
We can use De Bruyne and Lukaku as an example. They are not English but fit the description of players who didn't have a name coming to Chelsea.
De Bryune had a comparable or arguably better 12/13 Bundesliga season than Schürrle. Why did you guys not just offer De Bruyne Schürrles spot?
Also Lukaku who was coming of a strong 12/13 EPL season. What does Chelsea do? Pick up Etoo, loan out Lukaku. And everyone including Mourinho had a good laugh about Chelseas strikers.
This offseason Chelsea had an opportunity to settle for a great CF rotation of Diego Costa & Lukaku and get rid of all of the deadweight Etoo, Torres & Ba. What do you guys do? Sell Lukaku and pick up another too old man in Drogba. At least got rid of Etoo & Ba, though.
