Thiago Silva urged Chelsea to provide you with a “technique” to forestall the membership’s stoop from dragging on till subsequent season after Actual Madrid ended their Champions League marketing campaign.
The Blues’ final hope of salvaging a disastrous season was snuffed out on Tuesday when the Spanish facet cruised to a powerful 4-0 mixture victory within the Champions League quarterfinals.
Brazilian defender Silva admitted the season had been troublesome for the membership, saying Chelsea’s bloated squad ensured there have been all the time disgruntled gamers.
Chelsea have spent greater than £500 million ($620 million) on transfers since a consortium led by Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital Group purchased the London membership from Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich final yr.
Frank Lampard, the present caretaker boss, is their fourth supervisor this time period following the sackings of Thomas Tuchel and Graham Potter and one recreation underneath caretaker supervisor Bruno Saltor.
Lampard has misplaced 4 straight video games since returning on a short lived foundation, and his group has scored simply as soon as in that interval.
Chelsea languishes eleventh within the Premier League desk, 17 factors out of the highest 4, with seven video games to go and unlikely to qualify for European competitors.
Silva, talking after Tuesday’s 2-0 residence loss to Actual Madrid within the quarter-final second leg, stated it was necessary to evaluate what went unsuitable slightly than apportion blame.
“It is not sufficient to have a look at the coach, say ‘it is this one’s fault, it is that one’s fault’ if we do not assume our duties,” he stated.
And he added: “Now we have to cease and have a method in order to not repeat the identical errors subsequent yr.”
Silva, 38, stated the membership had been pressured to extend the scale of the dressing room to accommodate its large squad, with eight new signings in January alone.
“I feel it’s a troublesome second for the membership, with an absence of definition in the beginning, a change of possession, the arrival of many gamers, they even needed to improve the scale of the dressing room as a result of there was not sufficient house for everybody. the gamers,” he stated.
“A constructive level is that there are nice gamers within the group however a adverse level is that somebody goes to get offended, as a result of not everybody can play and the coach has to decide on 11 gamers and there are 30-something.”