Chelsea lack leaders – Mikel

By Daily Sports Nigeria on December 14, 2023

Former Super Eagles midfielder, Mikel Obi, has charged Chelsea manager, Mauricio Pochettino, to put an end to rebuilding the team and start winning games in the Premier League.

Mikel made this known via his Obi One Podcast, where he lamented the Blues lack of leadership.

“Are we just going to sit on the fence and say we are still in a rebuilding process?” Mikel said during his Obi One Podcast.

“There is no time for that. We need to start winning games. When I look at the team, it comes down to a lack of leaders.

“In the game against Everton, I looked around the pitch, there was not one single leader. There is no one to come out on the pitch to go at your colleagues and say, ‘Wake up, what are you doing?’ – this is what we had before.

“The likes of Didier Drogba, John Terry, and Frank Lampard, when you are having a s*** game, these guys would make you wake up.

“I look at the manager; I didn’t see him scream at one of the players to say, ‘Do your f****** job, wake up, make sure you run around and make sure we win the game.’”

He also knocked the Blues left-back Marc Cucurella, saying the Spaniard was not Chelsea standard.

Cucurella joined Chelsea from Brighton & Hove Albion last summer in a £62m deal and has struggled to impress since his arrival.

“He is not Chelsea standard,” Mikel added.

“When you look at the left-backs we have had, Ashley Cole, Cesar Azpilicueta, William Gallas, you are talking about these players who have stayed at the club for many years, played so many games, and the standard they have set for that position. For me, he’s not at Chelsea standard.”

 

 

Source Punch Ng

Posted December 14, 2023


 

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