EXCL: Three players on Chelsea's 'Vision 2030' List

Plus, what IS the Vision 2030 plan?

Chelsea’s Vision 2030 plan has been much talked about in recent days. So first of all, for those who might not be fully aware of what it is all about, let’s go through it.

Chelsea first unveiled a ‘Vision 2030’ in 2021. Planning started in 2019, when Frank Lampard was manager, and it has been led by the hugely talented and admired Neil Bath, who can be considered an expert in academy football and has been the man behind Chelsea’s successful Cobham youth academy.

“We met as a management team and reviewed how things were going in the Academy,” Bath said at the time. “We said, ‘We are in a good place in terms of young players getting an opportunity, but we need to go again.’”

Bath has been reassured that Chelsea’s new owners are fully involved and backing this vision and are prepared to heavily invest time and money into Chelsea’s academy, creating pathways into the senior team for young players.

When asked whether he thought the new owners would continue to back the Academy, Bath said: “Yes 100%, I really do. It’s always a team effort, everybody’s in it. Frank put them in and gave them the opportunity. Subsequently Thomas (Tuchel) has kept going, Graham (Potter) has kept going.

“They (the new owners) have gone on that fact that we will continue that opportunity and I am very confident they are excited about supporting and taking this vision forward. It will get their full support.”

Chelsea’s Vision 2030 has five main targets: