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Add as preferred source on Google<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nThe attitude of Chelsea\u2019s squad has been questioned for years now. Many feel Liam Rosenior\u2019s sacking was because they downed tools, and Joe Hart thinks only one player is playing for the badge.<\/strong><\/p>\n BlueCo are now paying for being far too involved in the day-to-day running of the club. Their work in the transfer window, their trigger-happy approach to managers, is now coming back to bite the owners.<\/p>\n Chelsea look as though they may struggle to qualify for any form of European competition at the end of the season. A win against Man City in the FA Cup final papers over the cracks, with a very thin plaster.<\/p>\n Even that is unlikely. The problems are enormous at Chelsea, but actually, there are a few simple fixes. BlueCo must take a step back, bring a good manager in, and allow the new manager to sign his players.<\/p>\n Can all the blame be levelled at BlueCo? Or can it be placed on the players\u2019 shoulders, and their attitude? Certainly, there is a feeling that the players never took to Rosenior, and it resulted in the way it did.<\/p>\n One player even nicknamed Rosenior \u2018the supply teacher\u2019. BlueCo can be blamed for that because any leadership in the squad would immediately remove that attitude. But the players should back the boss.<\/p>\n Speaking on TNT Sports this week, Joe Hart thinks Chelsea\u2019s players lack a connection with the club and only one player is actually playing for the badge. He thinks Reece James is the only one with a connection.<\/p>\n \u201cBut when you talk about salvation, you\u2019ve got to want that salvation. In that Chelsea team, you don\u2019t know who\u2019s actually dying for the badge. Reece James, you can tell he\u2019s a product of their academy.<\/p>\n \u201cBut the other players seem like they\u2019ve got other things, other motivations going in their life, which we all do in football, nobody is perfect,\u201d Hart said. Clearly, Hart thinks the problem is within the squad.<\/p>\n It is a big claim from Hart. Levi Colwill will certainly feel that he is playing for the badge. He has come back from a horrible injury and immediately returned to action against Liverpool, proving his worth.<\/p>\n Like James, a Chelsea academy product. But Hart\u2019s comments do ring true when the likes of Marc Cucurella and Enzo Fernandez speak publicly about wanting to leave and criticising the hierarchy.<\/p>\n This summer, we will learn more about which players actually want to play for the badge. James and Colwill are going nowhere; Moises Caicedo perhaps is in that bracket. But who else wants to stay put?<\/p>\nCHELSEA PLAYER OF THE SEASON \u2013 FINAL!<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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<\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\nJoe Hart sees only one player playing for the Chelsea badge<\/h2>\n
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<\/div>Some Chelsea players will feel Joe Hart\u2019s criticism is harsh\u2026<\/h2>\n
Xabi Alonso just screams Chelsea manager \ud83d\ude0d<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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