{"id":297969,"date":"2023-11-02T19:24:55","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T19:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/?p=297969"},"modified":"2023-11-02T19:24:55","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T19:24:55","slug":"chelsea-have-forgotten-about-experience-claims-marcel-desailly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/soccer\/chelsea-have-forgotten-about-experience-claims-marcel-desailly\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea have &apos;forgotten&apos; about experience, claims\u00a0Marcel Desailly"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Chelsea have put too much focus on the potential of players and &#8216;FORGOTTEN&#8217; about the experience needed for a &#8216;winning mentality&#8217;, claims Blues legend\u00a0Marcel Desailly<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Chelsea are 11th in the Premier League under Mauricio Pochettino this season<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>They have spent \u00a31billion focusing on recruitment young players with potential<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Mauricio Pochettino vs Alan Shearer &#8211; who is right? Listen to It&#8217;s All Kicking Off<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Chelsea legend Marcel Desailly has criticised his former club for focusing too much on potential and forgetting experience.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues sit 11th in the Premier League table after another poor start to the season that has seen them win three, draw three and lose four of their first 10 games under new manager Mauricio Pochettino.<\/p>\n<p>There were high hopes for their fortunes under the new manager but it&#8217;s been the same story as last season so far, despite spending over \u00a31billion on transfer fees in the last three transfer window.<\/p>\n<p>Owner Todd Boehly has changed the club&#8217;s recruitment philosophy of late, signing younger players rather than proven talent, including the likes of Cole Palmer, Enzo Fernandez and Nicolas Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s a tactic, according to Desailly via Get French Football News, that is backfiring, and the importance of experience in a successful side, he said, has been ignored.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/02\/18\/77334451-0-image-a-54_1698950219159.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Chelsea legend Marcel Desailly has claimed that the club have put too much focus on recruiting players with potential<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/02\/18\/77334453-0-image-a-55_1698950225490.jpg\" height=\"446\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Desailly played for Cheslea between 1998 and 2004 and is regarded as one of the best centre backs ever<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/02\/18\/77334479-0-image-a-56_1698950228467.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Chelsea have spent over \u00a31billion on transfers in the last year in a youth-focused approach to signing players<\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;So it\u2019s very hard to criticise,&#8217; he began. &#8216;The only thing that I\u2019d say though is that it is an error of communication. They are carried away by the potential that each player that they\u2019ve bought has, because they\u2019ve forgotten about one element, knowing that to play football at the highest level.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;To attain what we call in French\u00a0la culture de la gagne,\u00a0the winning mentality, you need experience \u2013 nascent talent is never enough to presume immediate performance. And that\u2019s the only thing where I\u2019d say they\u2019ve made a mistake, where they keep thinking, with the coach Pochettino, &#8220;no, this year we\u2019ll be title challengers with the team that we have\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Right from the start of the season, you could see that they can\u2019t be title challengers, it was obvious. But they have put together players of great potential and have positioned themselves in terms of business,\u00a0because if they didn\u2019t buy the players now for a little above value, they wouldn\u2019t have been able to buy them later.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Desailly made 222 appearances for Chelsea across a six-year period either side of the turn of the century, and was part of the side that won the 2000 FA Cup and 1998 Super Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The now-55-year-old retired before Chelsea&#8217;s real period of success began under Roman Abramovic, but is regarded as one of the best centre backs of all time.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/02\/18\/77334473-0-image-a-57_1698950238258.jpg\" height=\"430\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Mauricio Pochettino was appointed this summer but has been unable to turn the Blues&#8217; fortunes around<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/02\/18\/77334487-0-image-a-58_1698950251880.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Desailly claimed new owner Todd Boehly (right) has &#8216;forgotten&#8217; about experience needed to form a &#8216;winning mentality&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>He called for clearer communication between the club and the fans in terms of what the project and plan is, with the investment well-known and, so far, showing little reward.<\/p>\n<p><span>&#8216;The only thing is they need to know how to educate the supporters by telling them hang <\/span>on \u2013 we\u2019re going to have a year or two of transition but after that \u2013 wow \u2013 we\u2019ve built up enormous potential.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;But the fans and the media don\u2019t want to hear that. They\u2019ve seen the investment, they want immediate results. But that\u2019s what I think of Chelsea\u2019s idea. Pochettino isn\u2019t a coach who has built up his philosophy like a Mourinho, a Tuchel \u2013 he\u2019s a coach who needs to coach top players, top teams.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Now he needs to rethink all his coaching to adapt to players who are in theory at a very high level but for whom you need to recreate the basic foundations of play.&#8217;<\/p>\n<h3>IT&#8217;S ALL KICKING OFF!\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p><span>It&#8217;s All Kicking Off\u00a0is an exciting new podcast from Mail Sport that promises a different take on Premier League football, launching with a preview show today and every week this season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It is available on MailOnline, Mail+, YouTube , Apple Music and Spotify<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12703975\/Chelsea-focus-potential-players-FORGOTTEN-experience-Marcel-Desailly.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea have put too much focus on the potential of players and &#8216;FORGOTTEN&#8217; 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