“Who is making these decisions” – Joe Cole slams Chelsea for failed transfer decision

“Who is making these decisions” – Joe Cole slams Chelsea for failed transfer decision

Former Chelsea winger Joe Cole has slammed the club for a transfer decision, but this time the current owners are off the hook.

Cole has been very vocal about the failing project currently in place under the current BlueCo ownership, but this time, they cannot be blamed for this decision that Cole has slammed in the wake of Manchester City thrashing Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on Sunday evening.

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Marc Guehi scored against his former side, and Cole has slammed Chelsea for letting him go back in 2021, under the previous ownership.

Cole on Guehi

‘For me, the big moment in the game from a Chelsea perspective, and from a Manchester City perspective, was when Marc Guehi scored the goal,’ ex-Chelsea winger Joe Cole said of Guehi’s superb 57th-minute strike on The Dressing Room Podcast.

‘It was a great finish but I look at where Chelsea are as a club, desperately trying to find a centre-half, spending hundreds of millions of pounds… you had a kid [Guehi] in the building.

‘He came over and spoke to us and he’s so assured, he’s a captain. You see him play and he’s calm.

‘He came from Chelsea from the age of six, we sold him to Crystal Palace and now he’s at Manchester City and he looks like he’s been there for 20 years.

‘The ball into him from Rayan Cherki and the finish was just sublime.’

He continued: ‘I’m looking at him and I’m thinking: how has this kid got a Manchester City shirt on? The team should have been built around him five years ago.

‘Whoever has let him out the door at Chelsea… if I’m the owner, I’m going, “Right, who’s decision, or what collective of people’s decision, was it to think it was a good idea to let this kid leave the club?”.

‘Everyone would go, “It wasn’t me, it wasn’t me!”… unless you find out who is making these decisions, these decisions will continue to happen and you’ll keep losing players like that. You need to do an appraisal on it.’

After getting on the scoresheet in west London, Guehi thanked those who had helped him on his journey into first-team football during his early days at Chelsea.

‘I wouldn’t be here without this football club,’ Guehi told BBC Sport.

‘I am eternally grateful to every single member of the staff who helped me in the academy and the club for picking me up at such a young age, to Frank Lampard and Jody Morris for giving me my debut when I was here.

‘It’s nice to be back.’

In other news today

The London is Blue podcast have been looking at Chelsea’s struggles in attack against Man City on Sunday. They honed in on Marc Cucurella’s xG for the game, highlighting the serious issues we had up top.

Andrey Santos has spoken about Chelsea’s defeat to Man City and pointed out what his team need to improve. He also claims that they are ‘doing well’.

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