Pochettino’s refreshing comments on winning culture – Talk Chelsea

‘Chelsea have a successful tradition’ is a really true assertion from current historical past. Below Roman Abramovich, we had precisely that, successful trophies each single season and having fun with constant and fixed success.

However as I wrote about a few weeks again now, this soccer membership is just not the identical soccer membership now beneath the brand new possession. So what even is our tradition now?

Glen Johnson picked up on it completely and defined how the entire membership has been gutted and altered from the highest to the very backside, and to be sincere, it felt like one thing that most likely wanted doing. Every little thing wanted refreshing, and the squad, most significantly, wanted fully gutting and altering.

Abramovich was a tremendous proprietor for us however I felt like his time on the membership was coming to an finish anyway. The squad we had was drained, lacked high quality, lacked sturdy mentalities, and it simply felt like at that time we wanted to make massive modifications. And that’s precisely what the brand new house owners got here in and did.

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However we’re a brand new soccer membership now – it’s fully modified, and it’s fully totally different. And I do consider this has been for the higher. It may not present but, however it can finally.

Chelsea Soccer Membership, the identify alone not less than, DOES have a successful tradition, and we should always completely preserve that within the membership despite the fact that it can nonetheless take a while to really feel like that and get again to that time.

The supervisor of our opposition tonight, Erik ten Hag, not too long ago revealed that the tradition and requirements at Manchester United had fallen when he walked by means of the door, however Pochettino says Chelsea is the alternative and all he has to do is proceed the wealthy custom.

He advised reporters gathered at Chelsea’s coaching base in Cobham:

“No, no, no. It’s totally different. We don’t need to change the tradition. We need to construct one thing, a challenge.”

“The tradition of Chelsea is about successful. How we’re going to change a tradition in a membership that’s about successful? No, no, no. For those who ask me right here if I need to change the tradition right here? No. We’re right here to attempt to construct a challenge along with the brand new house owners, the sporting director, and the membership, altogether.”

“It’s a challenge. It’s not a tradition. The tradition that’s right here is about to win and now we should be at this stage. Is it a distinct challenge from the previous? After all. It’s totally different. A distinct strategy to strategy issues? After all. As a result of it’s a distinct view. To be on the similar stage up to now, however the tradition of Chelsea is about to win.”

I do know folks will react to those quotes in several methods, however on the very least it’s attention-grabbing what he’s saying.

Individuals will run these quotes again each time we lose this season and Pochettino is heard making any type of excuse. As a result of he’s saying Chelsea is about successful, like he did in the beginning of the season. So in that sense he shall be growing stress on himself with these feedback.

However on the similar time, what he’s saying right here is nice to listen to. None of us need to hear the justifications of this being a long-term challenge each time we carry out badly or don’t get a consequence, regardless of most of us understanding that this IS a course of and there WILL be bumps within the street.

All we’ve got heard within the final two years is excuses, and though lots of them are warranted (extra accidents and many others), Chelsea followers will take extra consolation from realizing that the boss, the gamers, the house owners, the administrators, are all in-sync with believing that Chelsea ARE Chelsea, and the tradition right here IS about successful.

Pochettino says we should be at a sure stage at Chelsea, and he’s bang on. We’re in a challenge and a course of, however we nonetheless should goal excessive and have requirements. And I genuinely assume we do.

Phrases like this from the boss will feed all through the squad and create that perception and people intentions. For this reason I’d a lot somewhat hear issues like this than ‘we misplaced as a result of we’re in a challenge’ type of factor.

Set the requirements early, and preserve to them.

All of us have pretty low expectations for Chelsea’s instant future not less than. So we will solely get higher and transfer ahead, and we’ll.