Mauricio Pochettino has insisted that Chelsea gamers “must develop up” after one more Premier League defeat on Sunday.
Regardless of spending round £1bn on new gamers over the past 18 months, and round £400m throughout the summer season 2023 switch window alone, Chelsea have been actually woeful initially of the 2023/24 Premier League season.
The Blues have now misplaced 4 of their six Premier League video games up to now this marketing campaign, with this newest loss coming by the hands of Aston Villa at Stamford Bridge.
Chelsea had been enjoying comparatively effectively towards Villa on Sunday, till 20-year-old wing-back Malo Gusto for a reckless problem on the byeline. quarter-hour after taking place to ten-men, Chelsea conceded the profitable objective to Ollie Watkins.
Gusto is one in all plenty of younger gamers the brand new Blues house owners have made some extent of signing in current seasons, with Todd Boehly and co. constructing the youngest squad within the league – the typical age of the squad is 23.7 years.
Because of the straight pink card Gusto will probably be unavailable for the following two video games, and first alternative striker Nicolas Jackson can be set to serve a suspension due to his fifth yellow card of the marketing campaign already.
Chatting with the membership’s official web site, Pochettino commented on these suspensions and chalked them all the way down to the squad’s “must develop up” and learn to compete at a Premier League degree:
“We have to develop up, as a group, not solely as particular person. Nicolas is so younger and he’s nonetheless feeling the Premier League. He’s studying, I believe he wants time.
“In such a sport, we’re competing and wish to win, and soccer is difficult to win. But in addition gamers when they’re younger must study with expertise and make errors. That’s the reason I’m upset, as a result of I believe we’re having too many conditions like this. They’re small particulars, however small particulars can finish in you dropping the sport and now we’re in a scenario that we have to change as quickly as doable.”
Talking in regards to the Gusto straight pink particularly, Pochettino insisted that the participant wanted to take duty for what was a reckless deal with: “It was in entrance of me however I didn’t see it, so I can not say it wasn’t a pink card. We have to belief the referee and the VAR and we can not return and alter the choice, we have to settle for that.
“It’s the participant’s duty, we can not blame the referee or the VAR. On this scenario we have to act otherwise. I’m not going accountable or say something towards Malo Gusto, as a result of typically these conditions occur in soccer, however after all the scenario affected the group and the sport in a unfavourable method.”
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