Chelsea continue to be linked with Neymar, but the reality is probably quite different – Talk Chelsea

Chelsea will proceed to be linked to gamers like Kylian Mbappe and Neymar, particularly when experiences come out that each gamers wish to depart their golf equipment.

I predicted that we’ll hear Chelsea’s title linked to Neymar earlier this week when information got here out about him wanting to depart. And as if by clockwork, round an hour later, the hyperlinks from France started.

However these hyperlinks are in all probability not with out substance. We hold listening to there’s been a need from our house owners to herald an enormous marquee title since they arrived final summer time. You can not ignore the industrial facet of such a signing as properly, with shirt gross sales coming into the equation. As enterprise males they’ll lick their lips at such potential signings. However they’re now caught between a rock and a tough place, as a result of they’ve purchased within the new recruitment group in addition to Mauricio Pochettino, and the switch technique has modified, in all probability for the higher.

All of us noticed the scattergun strategy final summer time and the way that has now confirmed to be a mistake. And now, with Pochettino and the brand new recruitment group, the technique is turning into clear.

Chelsea, and extra importantly Pochettino, need younger and hungry gamers on this squad. Gamers who’re able to run solidly for 90 minutes, struggle for second balls, defend even when they’re a striker, and struggle for the membership and for one another. Pochettino not solely desires high quality gamers in his squad, he additionally desires intense work horses. And sadly gamers like Mbappe and Neymar will simply by no means match that profile, which is why I consider such names are being shelved now.

We may all get misplaced within the dream of bringing in such an enormous title, not simply our house owners. I’ve seen lots of people on Twitter/X touting for a transfer for Neymar, however the truth stays that these gamers who usually include baggage and egos in addition to excellent high quality, are simply not the gamers that Poch desires across the constructing and in his squad proper now. He desires group gamers, not people. He desires a household and collective ambiance and really feel in his squad, not gamers who suppose/know they’re higher than everybody else and on ridiculously large wages.

That’s the opposite factor, our wage construction. Now we have all seen and heard how that has modified for the higher additionally and having gamers on decrease wages however with incentives to earn extra. Though there was rumours suggesting Chelsea have leeway to herald a marquee participant on large wages, you simply can’t see that ever coming to fruition given the circumstances and our technique we’re following in recruitment proper now.

To be sincere, I solely see it as a superb factor and actually, we must always completely be sticking to it regardless of temptations to maneuver for an Mbappe or a Neymar. A part of Chelsea’s present technique is to signal the following Mbappe or Neymar BEFORE they get to world class degree and demand foolish wages.

As I at all times say, there is no such thing as a approach I’d totally rule out a transfer for a marquee title like Mabppe or Neymar, however my feeling proper now’s that none of them will occur purely due to our imaginative and prescient and our pathway proper now beneath the brand new recruitment group and Pochettino. I see a pathway away from such names, and I don’t see it altering.