He also did say that if Baker,Brown and Solanke (I think) don't become England internationals then that would be his faults (or something along that line).Then he loaned out all of them to Vitesse.
Anyone said the youth players at Chelsea wasn't good enough need to look at Loftus-Cheek,Christensen,Musonda,Solanke,Abraham and some others.They are as good as anything you can find at that level.It's up to the manager and coaches to develop them further to the demand of the first team.Not all of them will become good enough but when zero of them made an impact at first team level under Mourinho despite their first team struggled massively, something wasn't right.
Mourinho is a great manager and a winner but if we want to solely look at the youth promotion and development point of views, he has been poor and that's a fact.I don't get why it's so hard to comprehend for some.If someone think it's not important then okay,fair, but instead many prefer to twist the truth.
What i've seen from
Loftus-Cheek is that the boy doesn't work hard enough.
At times he gets dispossessed, that's normal, but he's not going after them like a mad man. As an 'unkown' talent you should be trying to take the game by its balls, he hasn't been doing that, so no wonder Mourinho got upset and tried to wake him up with some public comments. Just take a look at Alli who's so aggressive. Loftus-Cheek got the better of that German boy Sané in the youth league, but there's more to the game than a few good moments on the ball.
Every professional player in one of the better leagues has its good moments here and there.
Before the season started no one had any idea what drama would be unraveling. Chelsea decided to loan a 19 year inexperienced
Christensen to Gladbach for 2 years, because they already had the best central defense in the league, imo.
The
Musonda case seems a bit odd, but he looked slender and undernourished,
a loan to Spain would do him some good. I remember his first interview which he helt in freakin' Spanish, according to the boy himself all learned by himself.
He's very ambitious, but still raw, 3 scorer in 16 games is upgradable.
Solanke is 18 years of age, being a striker in the Premiership is very hard,
a loan was the right idea. The season before he got some minutes in their Champions-League campaign.
Baker has a good shot in him, but apart from that, a lot to learn.
Mourinho awarded minutes to the new boy, young talent Kenedy who impressed with his work rate. Furthermore there was Traoré who happened to be one of the better players in the Eredivisie in 2014/2015.
I'm under the impression that Guus awarded Traoré more minutes, but take your time for a rewatch Chelsea vs. PSG. The boy had to fill in Costa's shoes and it didn't go well. So he still has a lot to learn. When i'm comparing the Chelsea talents with a player like Coman, than they are worse, imo.
What did Guus do differently than Mourinho at Chelsea? He steadied the ship, but he didn't inspire, he wanted to keep his good record and decided not to play the youth despite being close to Abramovich. The youth is simply not that good.
Abramovich doesn't help the case either with his antics, according to Ancelotti's book patience isn't one of his strenghts. Chelsea is a weird place.
How many youth players did Ancelotti bring up and compare it to Mourinho's.
What about the god himself, Pep Guardiola, what has he done during his time at Bayern Munich? I remember him benching Kimmich against Atletico Madrid, despite playing very well in the last couple of weeks and fielding the more experienced Bernat, which ironically backfired.
Now turning to the youth players, is there any Pep Guardiola introduced to the team?
My point is that there is a difference between poor and expandable.
At Real Madrid Mourinho used the Youth, played young guys, so i can't see why it's game over for the likes of Rashford. Mourinho's claims are high, but we shouldn't settle for less, it's time to be the phoenix and rise from the ashes.
Mourinho seems so calm and in good mood these days, good things are coming.
Mark my words!