Reply To: Emenalo: Chelsea want to develop players for first team

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Another factor is managerial longevity it is no accident that the PL Managers with the greatest success rate in giving youngsters a chance are Ferguson and Wenger both had/have been at their clubs significant periods of time whereas Chelsea for all sorts of reasons have chopped and changed Managers far to often and short term Managers under pressure to deliver trophies is not conducive to giving young players chances.

As stevo says and I myself have long said we are really no better or worse than our competitors in the PL but we are highlighted because of the numbers of players out on loan and because of the strength of our Academy.

As Mourinho indicated in the week Chelsea have 7 under 21 players in their first team squad who have 26 starts and 12 substitute appearances between them which probably isn’t that far off anybody elses situation and may well be better than some.