Chelsea are in a tough place right now after a run of poor performances and bad results. After watching the draw with Brighton this week you got a real sense of feeling that something just wasn’t right.
Pundits such as Alan Shearer and others, highlighted the fact that they felt there is dressing room unrest due to how the players looked so disinterested and had no intensity. This is a good point raised.
However, Thomas Tuchel claims that his players are tired and fatigued after going through a busy schedule with injuries and Covid-19, and this is factual. But will these excuses wash with the board? We all know their history. I don’t believe he is in any kind of trouble at all for what it is worth, and I feel that the club are still totally behind him.
But then again if they are ‘behind’ him, why have they known about the injury to Ben Chilwell since November the 23rd, yet here we are in at January the 19th and the club have still yet to bring in any cover for Chilwell?
Not only that, we have been without Reece James as well since the start of the year so valid arguments claim that we should even be giving Tuchel two new wing backs this month to strengthen his squad back up seeing as though wing backs are absolutely KEY to his system.
But no, nothing at all apart from some attempts to bring a player back who they loaned out in the summer adding an option for his new club to buy him. Emerson Palmieri of course, and I feel he will still be the guy arriving.
But during our bad run of form through December and January, I believe Tuchel could have had a MUCH better chance of avoiding it if he was given his desired wing back cover, what he felt he needed, and how many players he felt he needed to come in, the minute this transfer window opened 19 days ago.
The board have failed Tuchel here and who knows, maybe his tiredness comments are an indirect message to the board? If tiredness is the reason for poor form, then why on earth have we not corrected that by signing players so far this month? At the very least a new left wing back should have come in and filled the huge void of Chilwell.
It’s bad operations once again in my view.
