Ever since Thomas Tuchel headed for the exit door, everything has gone wrong and no signing, no matter how big or small, has lifted them from their gloom. Even though beat Championship side Leicester City 4-2 in the FA Cup over the weekend, it’s fair to say that it came with its drama. For periods of the game, the Stamford Bridge faithful proceeded to , for his penalty miss, quite awful free-kick and then Mykhailo Mudryk getting subbed off before him. Mario Melchiot was pretty blunt in what he thought about it all and stated moments like this ‘cut you deep’ as a player, and he is talking from experience, as he told . The issue with Raheem Sterling is that he shouldn’t have taken the penalty off and that free-kick is seriously one of the worst you will ever see. Then he wasn’t helped by Leicester pulling two goals back and his manager making questionable substitutions. It’s going to create a toxic environment, but for some, it still shouldn’t excuse booing your own players. Were
Chelsea fans right to boo Raheem Sterling? “At this point, I am not going to lie about it, yes, he isn’t in a good place,” said Melchiot. “He isn’t performing as you know. The things that he is doing – then you saw the other part, he had a one-v-one with the keeper and he should have scored. You could see his frustration. You could see it was building up. “I am talking from experience, when you boo a player, I want people to understand it goes really deep in us. The feeling of like almost cutting
US Open. It really hurts us emotionally. You never forget when people do you bad, that’s why I will support it and say ‘no, I don’t like it’.” Raheem Sterling’s transfer isn’t working At the end of the day, the 29-year-old is one of the senior guys in the dressing room and he doesn’t have much to fall back on. The young stars can use their own age or lack of experience as an excuse, and in some cases, the fans will give them leeway. But Sterling was brought in to, at the very least, maintain Chelsea’s levels as a
Champions League team. Now it isn’t all his fault because the decision-makers, the rest of the squad and the manager deserve pelters for pushing the club backwards. But this Sterling transfer just isn’t working and .