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Anyone involved with Chelsea right now who may want to know what the biggest problems are at our club, might just need to read this Joe Cole quote.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s literally as simple as this. Fans have lost connection with the club, and it\u2019s down to the culture being gutted, and watching players just not fighting for the badge. Not all the time, granted, but a lot of the time. As fans, all we want to see is players give their all for the club and for the fans. That\u2019s it.<\/p>\n
Joe Cole:<\/p>\n
\u201cI was talking to a Chelsea fan the other day who loves the club. It felt more like a therapy session.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe said to me, \u2018It was different in your day, we felt connected.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cI asked him why he felt like that, and what we did differently apart from winning matches?<\/p>\n
\u201cHe said there was a response to the losing games, and more engagement with the fans.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe used Shevchenko as an example; he came in and had a terrible time, but the fans could see he was trying.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was humble, and every time they sang Shevchenko\u2019s name, he acknowledged them. For a Ballon d\u2019Or winner who\u2019s having a difficult time, they still remembered that more than 15 years later.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s the little things that I think the group need to take charge of, but no senior players are leading that at the club.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey don\u2019t realise how important it is, and what he said was that, he says, at Chelsea, success is not judged on how many trophies you won, but on how much money you\u2019re in the red at the end of the season or how much profit you\u2019ve made.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat summed it up.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat seems to be where our Chelsea Football Club is now, not judged on performance on the pitch, but on the finances.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd you can\u2019t tell me anything other than that. It\u2019s the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Perfectly said by Joe and this fan. This is nail on the head stuff.<\/p>\n
Gut a club of the culture, anyone who was part of the old regime, and then put together a bunch of young players without leadership and an experienced manager, and you lose all of what Chelsea Football Club stands for.<\/p>\n
This is it, in a nutshell.<\/p>\n
These words should be put on the walls of the offices in Cobham. If you want the fans FULLY back onside, then you need to bring the Chelsea culture back. You need to get the players playing for the badge again and putting it all in for the fans.<\/p>\n
I keep saying it, but football can be such a simple game when you look at it like this and stop trying to over complicate it.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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