Chelsea should bring in legendary
Real Madrid pair Toni Kroos and Luka Modric, according to former Blues star Joe Cole, who wants more seasoned players added to Since the
Los Angeles Dodgers owner at Stamford Bridge in May 2022, the club has favored signing younger talents. They spent more than a billion dollars in their recruitment, mostly on players who are rising stars. In two years, they've only signed two players older than 26 in Kalidou Koulibaly and The strategy has drastically dropped the squad's average age, with Moises Caicedo, Cole Palmer, Romeo Lavia, and Lesley Ugochukwu, all of them 21 or younger, signed last summer. But so far it hasn't led to success. Their
Premier League performance is suffering, sitting in 11th place with their chances of playing in Europe next season fading fast, even though they've reached the Carabao Cup final and Former Blues winger Cole believes boss Mauricio Pochettino should bring in experienced players like Modric and Kroos to add veteran poise to a talented but inconsistent group of players. "I'd be looking to maybe bring in some experienced players to set the tone," he told talkSPORT. "Does Luka Modric want to come and play in the Premier League for one more year? He's still doing bits at Real Madrid. "How much has he helped [Eduardo] Camavinga, [Aurelien] Tchouameni, [Federico] Valverde? He would have had such an influence on them as players. Toni Kroos is 34 but does he want to test himself at his age, coming over here and helping out this young squad?" Modric and Kroos both signed one-year contract extensions last summer and have helped nurture some of the best young players in world
Football, including
England sensation Jude Bellingham. Since joining Real from
Tottenham in 2012, Modric, 38, has made 521 appearances, winning La Liga three times and the
Champions League on five occasions. The Croatia international also won the Ballon d'Or in 2018 following a string of world-class performances at the
World Cup in
Russia. Meanwhile, Kroos, 34, moved to Real from Bayern Munich in 2014 after winning the World Cup with
Germany. The experienced midfielder has made 455 appearances during his time in Madrid so far and is approaching his 10-year anniversary at the club. As for
Chelsea, they booked their place in the FA Cup semi-final on Sunday following a dramatic 4-2 win over 10-man Leicester at Stamford Bridge. Speaking after the match, Pochettino said: "I think no one can say that we didn't deserve, I think we fully deserve to be at Wembley." "The objective is to go again and for the second time, first was the kind of cup where we were in the final and now we are again in the FA Cup, you know, in the semi-final going to Wembley twice at the moment." "Hope that three times we can go. But I think this group of players that will be a big credit and also the staff because in a circumstance that we are from the beginning of the season, I think it is massive to get twice. You know the possibility to fight for a for a title."