Since Chelsea integrated Mason Mount, Reece James, Billy Gilmour, and Tammy Abraham into the first team, there has been an expectation for the Blues to use their youth at any given opportunity.
The harsh reality is that that has never truly been the 'Chelsea way'. The Blues have left the Roman Abramovic era, but there are still traces of his legacy being left behind. It's not a negative entity in the way Chelsea has been run, but it's a habit that many would like to leave behind.
The treatment of Chelsea Academy graduates hasn't always been placed in a positive light. The failure to regularly integrate youth into the first team was frowned upon but masked by continuous success. Now that Frank Lampard and Thomas Tuchel had set the tone and shown what can be achieved with Cobham graduates at the team's core, fans are demanding more.
