Chelsea kids are seeing through club’s flawed youth policy

Chelsea, and Emenalo, are expert at diverting the blame to a succession of managers, when it is the pressure from above that stunts development at Chelsea.  

Antonio Conte will be given the same contrary instruction as his predecessors: play the kids but win the title, and he will know the consequences of failure, too. 

And that’s why Chelsea are suddenly losing teenage prospects to West Ham: because not even the kids are quite as daft as Emenalo thinks.

Martin Samuel lays into Chelsea’s much-touted youth system (Daily Mail)