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Chelsea in turmoil - Sources on everything that is going wrong right now and what the future entails
I spent yesterday speaking to a number of sources that I trust, in order to try and find out exactly what has been going on with Mauricio Pochettino and behind the scenes.
It’s turmoil doom and gloom out there right now, and it seems that there are problems not just with the manager, but throughout the entire club on the Men’s side.
Mistakes have been made and are still being made, and it has turned even the most patient and positive fans onto the side of them having enough - you could see that from our contribution articles yesterday - even Luke has had enough.
I’ll be writing an article later today on what is needed to save all of this and get us back on track under this ownership, who I remain convinced that their intentions have always been good and their ambitions have always matched ours.
They have done a lot of things that have been good, like reducing the wage bill drastically, sorting out other good sponsorship and revenue deals, and selling a lot of the players that needed to go and getting good fees for them - shout to the sporting directors for their involvement in this as well.
That’s the positive done, but unfortunately the rest is negative.
This is what my top sources have said…..
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