Positive to be addressed by Chelsea owners directly – Talk Chelsea

If you happen to missed it at present, Chelsea launched an official assertion on their web site as a direct message to the fanbase.

A reminder of what it mentioned right here:

‘It’s been simply over a yr since we accomplished our buy of Chelsea. It was and stays a privilege for us to be custodians of our fantastic membership. Twelve months on, we need to take the chance to talk on to all of you, our supporters, as we replicate on the season simply gone.‘

‘Our promise to you was to make our followers proud. We stay utterly dedicated to the long run and sustainable success of our membership and fulfilling that promise we made to you. We all know the large potential we should develop to develop Chelsea FC and it’s a position we take significantly. Everyone working right here is relentlessly targeted on driving us ahead.‘

‘Clearly, for our males’s workforce, it has been a disappointing season and there’s a lot we are able to and can do higher. All through these troublesome intervals, our followers have supported our gamers and our workforce throughout the nation, and Europe with unfailing loyalty. We couldn’t be extra grateful on your unbelievable help. The ambiance on the Bridge after we performed Dortmund will dwell lengthy in our reminiscences and serves as an vital reminder of the place we need to be.‘

‘Our ladies’s workforce has celebrated one other astonishing season, profitable the Double with an unprecedented fourth successive WSL title and third successive FA Cup. While we simply fell quick within the Champions League, the workforce performed in entrance of unbelievable crowds at Stamford Bridge and demonstrated their high quality towards the perfect European sides. There usually are not sufficient optimistic issues to say about Emma Hayes, her backroom employees, and squad who’ve handled adversity, damage and Emma’s interval of absence. Their character and starvation to win is second to none. We had been additionally delighted to see Emma named the LMA’s WSL Supervisor of the 12 months and Sam Kerr profitable the FWA Ladies’s Footballer of the 12 months award back-to-back.‘

‘For all of the challenges of the previous yr, we’re optimistic concerning the future. We’re wanting ahead to welcoming Mauricio Pochettino as the top coach of our males’s workforce in July. We’re constructing a contemporary scouting, expertise identification, and recruiting infrastructure inside our sporting division, led by Laurence Stewart and Paul Winstanley, which is able to assist us to establish and remodel the squad round elite expertise, a squad able to persistently competing to win the Premier League, elevate home cups and compete and win on the highest degree in European soccer. We’ve additionally appointed Chris Jurasek as CEO to drive our enterprise ahead off the pitch, which in flip will make us extra sustainable on the pitch.‘

‘The success we’re aiming for is simply potential with our supporters behind us. We’re pleased with the creation of our Fan Advisory Board, which is able to meet for the primary time over this summer season, and we’re assured its new members will guarantee you might be on the coronary heart of choice making at our membership. We are going to proceed to make sure your voices are heard as we glance to the long run.

‘For now, on behalf of the board and everybody on the membership, thanks on your excellent help. We hope you all have an excellent summer season and look ahead to welcoming you again to the Bridge in August.’

The message was signed off from ‘The Chelsea Possession Group’ – which was good because it felt collective.

Before everything, I applaud this transfer. We’ve ALL been calling for this, particularly after the terrible season we now have simply endured. After all, Roman Abramovich was by no means one to speak to the followers both, particularly within the latter years, so why we anticipate this from the brand new homeowners is commonly debated. However it’s one thing that all of us would have favored extra of from Roman, and so subsequently we requested for extra of from the brand new homeowners.

It’s so vital to learn this message as a fan throughout this time. There’s numerous toxicity amongst the Chelsea fanbase proper now, lots of whom are drastically shedding religion within the possession, or have already misplaced religion within the possession.

My religion just isn’t misplaced, I nonetheless maintain the identical perception that our homeowners shall be profitable right here, the identical perception I held from day one. While I’ve been calling out errors and can proceed to take action (I cannot blindly observe), I’ve and can proceed to spotlight the numerous good issues they’ve achieved and can proceed to do additionally. It’s so vital for us to provide our judgements of this possession with as a lot stability as potential.

While it’s vital to additionally provide critique the place we see match, we also needs to be praising the great issues they do – and there was lots. It’s not going to assist anybody if we begin creating agendas or narratives which are massively unbalanced. We’re all on this collectively on the finish of the day, and there may be not one bone in my physique that believes that the homeowners do not need ambition to get us to the very prime – the exact same ambition as us followers.

They’ve made errors, and so they even now publicly acknowledge that on this direct message to us followers. And that’s what all of us needed, proper? They’re actually doing that right here.

We all know there was some massive errors. However that doesn’t imply we can not nonetheless go ahead. A number of the errors in hindsight have been costly, and the board will know this. However with all new ownerships there may be all the time errors, issues will all the time take time. The teething issues may nonetheless happen and we’d nonetheless must dampen expectations for subsequent season slightly at the least.

However with Mauricio Pochettino on the helm, we now have obtained our excellent supervisor to guide us within the distinctive scenario we’re in proper now, there aren’t any higher choices than him. He must be given the instruments and all the assistance potential, and we should all absolutely get behind him; the followers, the board, and the gamers should get behind him. It’s crucial to our success shifting ahead that all of us do that proper now.

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There shall be many extra issues and conditions going ahead that can frustrate us, however I wasn’t anticipating the whole lot to be wild summer season flowers and contemporary air – all of us have completely different opinions in soccer and all of us suppose completely different. However as all the time, I’ll 100% be voicing my considerations once I see match.

However this direct message to the followers has actually happy me and I absolutely applaud it. It’s precisely what we would have liked to see; acknowledgement and them listening to the followers, and reacting to us. This should be praised.

Actions converse louder than phrases in fact, however this can be a good ‘begin’ as such.

We’ve an extended summer season forward now, one which the board must get as near excellent as potential. Quite a bit hangs on the selections we make within the subsequent couple of months. Plenty of followers are on a little bit of a knife edge proper now with the possession, and this summer season may decide which path they fall off the knife in. If we get this summer season spot on, then I’ve no doubts in any respect that we are going to be up difficult for prime 4 once more subsequent season, after which constructing on that the season after.

It’ll take time, however I’m nonetheless adamant that Chelsea shall be again on the prime once more underneath this possession. I’ve many causes to nonetheless be backing them. However I’ll all the time name issues as I see them. Stability is so vital proper now.