Jamie Jackson was at Old Trafford tonight. His verdict is in … and I’m for the off. Thanks for reading this MBM. Nighty night!
Standards? What are we talking about? asks Sky … “Training well every day … trying to improve … being a collective unit … there are some variables for the players, everyone talks about a big squad and it’s hard for the coaches this year … I get it, I’ve lived that for eight league games now … sometimes maybe that is a factor and an excuse … but as a player you have to put that to the side and focus on your own game … as I’ve been here I’ve understood quickly that some of the collective standards – and it’s for the individuals amongst that to realise who they are within that, and what they do, this is not a blanket, this is just that we have to find the reasons the club is where it’s at, and there are many … this is not finger-pointing at the players … there is definitely not a lack of effort this evening … but you build up the credit through your training and prep, and you build up your resilience … it’s a bad year for the club … it needs a reboot … the club will move on … generally everything has to be improved … it’s for someone else to take on … it’s probably not the moment now for me to start giving all my opinions on all the details behind because it’s not the time … if you ask me what I’ve learned [since returning to Chelsea] in terms of coaching, not so much, because if you haven’t got that base, of the things I’ve spoken about for most of this interview, then back five, back four, three in midfield two in midfield, those things are not so important … when I talk about training a lot, I’m talking about building up an endurance in many ways and if that’s not there … what are the team fighting for? How can you motivate them and find that extra bit? … we haven’t found that as a collective … I’m certainly not the victim at this moment.”
