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The Frank Leboeuf Chelsea column
I’m amazed by the faithfulness of the fans knowing that they are going to be smashed and they still show up at The Emirates on Tuesday night; very brave when you don’t expect anything from the game. It’s like walking in to a room of Tigers, you’re going to be smashed!
I felt it was one of the worst performances from Chelsea in a long time. You thought they might react or show some pride but you have nothing. They’re wearing the Chelsea shirt, they aren’t playing for some random club, we are talking about Chelsea. I make the difference between the club and the team. The club is the most important thing for the fans, the players come and go, and you have a generation of success, then we have problems. When Ken Bates came in with Matthew Harding we started a new era and things started to get better. I was with my team mates at the base of the new generation of Chelsea, what we had before this. We understood about the club and its history.
The players right now don’t know where they stand, there is too many in the dressing room, and they don’t know what the club represents. Todd Boehly and the owners should have called me when they came in and asked me who we should have signed and I could have saved him £130m! It’s insane what we are seeing and what we are going to carry on seeing.
Going back to the Arsenal game, it was awful with the non-commitment and the involvement that the players had and put in to the game. Even players who are normally leaders like Cesar Azpilicueta and Thiago Silva I felt them being drawn by the situation. It can happen in these situations. You can be bad but you don’t feel that there is any reaction at all in that team on the field. If it was me on the pitch, I would have got the players together in a huddle at 2-0 before we kick off again and say ‘guys, we are the shame of the world right now, so now we are all going to move our assess and try to show some pride.’ We have the right to be bad, but not that bad, not in that way. Many players would have done that - Dennis Wise, John Terry, and even Frank Lampard when he was playing would have got a huddle and spoke to the players.
The players come in and sign big contracts, they don’t realise what we have been through before Chelsea became the club they are now. They don’t realise that there was a generation of fans that waited 25 years to see a trophy. We built this success together through generations. And now I don’t know what the future holds.
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