Who’s ready for Marc Cucurella to be ‘injured’ for the rest of the season before being shipped out this summer then? We’ve all read the script. Off to the bomb squad!
The Chelsea owners will not take well at all to his public criticism of them this week. But if it does anything, it should finally kick them into action to change a failing model. It should finally get them to realise that what they are doing is ruining a football club from top to bottom.
Don’t listen to us, fine. Don’t listen to the countless club legends who have said the same thing, fine. Don’t listen to some top journalists and analysts who have said the same, fine. Don’t listen to pundits and other former players who consistently say the same thing week on week, fine. But maybe listen to one of your senior players who is ‘in the room’ every single day. Maybe react to both him and another senior player being out there twerking for other clubs because they want out of this project. Maybe let that be the smack in your face that you finally need to make the changes this club desperately needs this summer.
We’ve heard the club mouthpieces say that the owners are listening to us and that they are going to tweak the model this summer and sign more ‘ready-made’ players. But of course, talk is cheap, anyone can make plans. Its whether you action that talk and plans, and fans have ZERO trust that they will. I’ve also been hearing similar things along the same lines by the way, but I have no faith at all that it will happen and we will see the required changes.
But Cucurella speaking out, and I don’t care about the timing because all of that is secondary, was EXACTLY what was needed. Yes, he might want out and he might be manufacturing his move away with all this. But either way, it needed saying. You can be sure that even though not all of the players will be thinking this way, there will be a good chunk of them that will be – they will be in a WhatsApp group speaking about it all every day, and that’s not good. Downing tools and wanting out will be the only outcome when things like this happen.
Yes, he’s said all this ahead of a very important run of games. But sometimes if you want the changes then it is only the most drastic action that will make any difference. And everything he’s said is spot on. I’ve said many times that winning the Club World Cup only papered over cracks and prolonged a major problem with the model. So sometimes, it’s the most hard-hitting occurrences that force action.
The worrying thing is that he has also now questioned the tactics of Liam Rosenior, as Malo Gusto also did recently. And if the club are so-called sticking with the manager regardless, and he’s already lost a section of the dressing room, that doesn’t sit well at all for the rest of this season. That is what hiring inexperienced managers does – players will struggle to trust them and believe in them. It’s just natural.
So, thank you Cucurella, for joining our fight. As fans, we will not give up saying the same thing we have said for the last four years and oh look, we might have been right all along after all eh?
