CONTE JUSTIFYING HIS ACTIONS ON SELLING CHELSEA YOUNG STAR'S
There has been plenty of debate and comment made this summer over the decision to sell some of our most promising youngsters at the club who have had a taste of Premier League football at Chelsea last season. As with anyone coming through with obvious talent, they are sent out on loan for a few seasons giving them the opportunity to gain first team experience at different levels, to get stronger, to improve to then hopefully come back to Chelsea ready to fight for a place in the first team.
For the majority of these players, it's clear after a period of time that they will not make the grade in Chelsea's first team and are eventually sold. However, for the few held in real high regard by the football club, the pathway is set for them to get their heads down, work hard within our first team squad and their chances should come. The question is "How long should they be prepared to wait?"
Antonio Conte has been speaking the media whilst we prepare to face Inter Milan in our next pre-season friendly and was asked of the decision made to sell these young players with the focus being on Nathaniel Chalobah leaving for Watford for £5m and the signing of Tiemoue Bakayoko (who is just four months older) for £40m instead.
He responded by saying:
"Sometimes young players think they can play easily in the first team, but that’s not true.
They arrive at 20, 21 and they say, “I want to play regularly”, and a lot of the time they are in a great club and it’s difficult. Look at Real Madrid and many great teams. The young player wants to play regularly, he wants to go on loan. He doesn’t want to suffer.
Last season we had a lot of young players and Chalobah wanted to go and play, Kurt Zouma wanted to go and play, Bertrand Traore wanted to go and play. Nathan Ake is a good guy. Asmir Begovic wanted to go and play.
Sometimes I think the young players lose their patience very quickly, because of parents or the people around these players. The advisers are not right. You have to fight with this. The first thing players should have is good patience. Trust the club and work very hard to know that to play at this level you must be stronger.
There has been plenty of debate and comment made this summer over the decision to sell some of our most promising youngsters at the club who have had a taste of Premier League football at Chelsea last season. As with anyone coming through with obvious talent, they are sent out on loan for a few seasons giving them the opportunity to gain first team experience at different levels, to get stronger, to improve to then hopefully come back to Chelsea ready to fight for a place in the first team.
For the majority of these players, it's clear after a period of time that they will not make the grade in Chelsea's first team and are eventually sold. However, for the few held in real high regard by the football club, the pathway is set for them to get their heads down, work hard within our first team squad and their chances should come. The question is "How long should they be prepared to wait?"
Antonio Conte has been speaking the media whilst we prepare to face Inter Milan in our next pre-season friendly and was asked of the decision made to sell these young players with the focus being on Nathaniel Chalobah leaving for Watford for £5m and the signing of Tiemoue Bakayoko (who is just four months older) for £40m instead.
He responded by saying:
"Sometimes young players think they can play easily in the first team, but that’s not true.
They arrive at 20, 21 and they say, “I want to play regularly”, and a lot of the time they are in a great club and it’s difficult. Look at Real Madrid and many great teams. The young player wants to play regularly, he wants to go on loan. He doesn’t want to suffer.
Last season we had a lot of young players and Chalobah wanted to go and play, Kurt Zouma wanted to go and play, Bertrand Traore wanted to go and play. Nathan Ake is a good guy. Asmir Begovic wanted to go and play.
Sometimes I think the young players lose their patience very quickly, because of parents or the people around these players. The advisers are not right. You have to fight with this. The first thing players should have is good patience. Trust the club and work very hard to know that to play at this level you must be stronger.
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