{"id":293164,"date":"2023-09-30T22:34:51","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T22:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allmysportsnews.com\/?p=293164"},"modified":"2023-09-30T22:34:51","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T22:34:51","slug":"chelsea-desperate-for-pochettinos-human-approach-to-pay-dividends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allmysportsnews.com\/soccer\/chelsea-desperate-for-pochettinos-human-approach-to-pay-dividends\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea\u00a0desperate for Pochettino&apos;s human approach to pay dividends"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Life\u2019s a lemon for Mauricio Pochettino, but Chelsea aren\u2019t that bitter as key executives still have faith&#8230; but the Blues are\u00a0desperate for new manager\u2019s human approach to pay dividends<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Key executives at Chelsea have faith in Mauricio Pochettino despite a poor start<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>A source at the club says he has &#8216;made a deep impression on the players&#8217;\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Mail Sport&#8217;s new WhatsApp Channel: Get the breaking news and exclusives here\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The good news for Chelsea fans is that the key executives at the club have faith in Mauricio Pochettino.<\/p>\n<p>The man who has a bowl of lemons in his office to suck up negative energy might seem like an odd fit for the club who aim to be data driven, with science and supposedly rational recruitment propelling them to 100 points a season, which is apparently what new owners Todd Boehly and Behdad Eghbali envisage, albeit they managed 44 last term.<\/p>\n<p>It appears there is still room for a Pochettino-style Latin bear hug at the club that has been in search of a new identity ever since Roman Abramovich was sanctioned in March 2022. \u2018Mauricio is more into feel,\u2019 said one club source. \u2018The lemons and all that. But you can\u2019t do everything off a spreadsheet. The human element is important.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>And right now Pochettino is the best hope Chelsea have. \u2018He\u2019s made a deep impression on the players\u2019 psychology,\u2019 said the source. \u2018It feels like we\u2019re all part of one organisation.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Which will be a relief to fans if true, because it does not look like that at the moment. The only victories Chelsea accrue are ones on paper. They are seventh in the xG table, that is the expected goals a team would have normally scored given the amount of chances they have created and, analysts insist, a fairer representation of how a team is playing.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/30\/22\/76022035-0-image-m-3_1696109415677.jpg\" height=\"401\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The good news for Chelsea fans is that the key executives at the club have faith in Mauricio Pochettino<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/30\/22\/76022037-0-image-a-1_1696109307817.jpg\" height=\"450\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The manager has &#8216;made a deep impression on the players\u2019 psychology,\u2019 said a source at Chelsea<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/30\/22\/76022033-0-image-a-4_1696109434079.jpg\" height=\"448\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>It appears there is still room for a Pochettino-style Latin bear hug at the club that has been in search of a new identity ever since Roman Abramovich was sanctioned<\/p>\n<p>Seventh is not amazing but it is better than 15th in the actual league table. The derby with Fulham is a reminder that Chelsea are now second best in their London Borough and third best in west London, which seems a steep decline since being crowned the best team in the world in February 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The most positive turnaround the new owners have performed is to recalibrate the club finances in a more sustainable manner. Headlines focus on the \u00a31billion transfer spend but they have also offloaded players for about \u00a3400m. The clever part of that from an accountant\u2019s point of view is that the academy players they sold (Mason Mount, Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Lewis Hall, Billy Gilmour and Callum Hudson-Odoi) are booked as pure profit. Which will at least make the books look good.<\/p>\n<p>And high earners such as Kai Havertz, Kalidou Koulibaly, Hudson-Odoi and Jorginho are off the books, while the \u00a3106m fee paid for Enzo Fernandez is spread over seven years \u2014 Chelsea\u2019s big idea to revolutionise football is long-term contracts \u2014 which only looks like a paltry \u00a315m on this year\u2019s accounts. (Though any good accountant will tell you this is a \u2018spend in haste, repent at leisure\u2019 approach. And UEFA and the Premier League have now closed this loophole, so Moises Caicedo\u2019s \u00a3110m fee will be spread on the books over five years).<\/p>\n<p>But the young players they have bought in are on considerably lower salaries than the squad they displaced, as Jose Feliciano, the Californian co-owner of private equity firm Clearlake Capital, the money behind Chelsea, said recently.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We sold half a billion dollars of players and reduced the salaries and essentially the opex [operating expenses] of the business, by more than $100m (\u00a381.5m) a year.\u2019 It sounds like gibberish but represents a significant transformation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/30\/22\/76022057-0-image-a-5_1696109462304.jpg\" height=\"443\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The most positive turnaround the new owners have performed is to recalibrate the club finances in a more sustainable manner with several sales<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/30\/22\/76022117-0-image-a-6_1696109504936.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Pochettino and Jesus Perez are the best men for this job right now to get the best out of Chelsea&#8217;s young players<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea\u2019s wage bill was unsustainable whether Abramovich was sanctioned or not. So book the open-top bus, barricade the Fulham Road and prepare for the parade: Chelsea are champions of the spreadsheet. In Santa Monica, they\u2019ll toast their success with kale, mango and ginger smoothies.<\/p>\n<p>The bad news is that Chelsea are less good at winning football matches and scoring real goals. Since the takeover, Chelsea have won 27 per cent of their games and lost 43 per cent, which is just about better than relegation form, in that it would accumulate 42 points a season.<\/p>\n<p>Which is where Pochettino now has to weave his magic. He is nothing if not a football whisperer, coaxing the maximum from young players. It is not just the rise of Harry Kane under Pochettino that suggests this. Look at Harry Winks and Dele Alli at Spurs and their careers after his departure.<\/p>\n<p>Pochettino and Jesus Perez are the best men for this job right now. Feliciano maybe was not fully cogniscient of the importance of maintaining a core of experienced players when trying to bed in a new regime. But at least the club hired the right man to get the best out of their young players.<\/p>\n<p>Pochettino revealed last week he was regularly playing the crossbar challenge game with one of the club\u2019s most-expensive flops, Mykhailo Mudryk. It is not just a chance for the Argentinian to show off his skills. It is time alone to chat with a struggling player. And Pochettino is good at that.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, Chelsea need his new age lemons to work their spell. Without that, their spreadsheet success has them heading for mid-table mediocrity.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12579641\/Mauricio-Pochettino-Chelsea-human-approach.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life\u2019s a lemon for Mauricio Pochettino, but Chelsea aren\u2019t that bitter as key executives still have faith&#8230; but the Blues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Chelsea\u00a0desperate for Pochettino&amp;apos;s human approach to pay dividends - All My Sports News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/allmysportsnews.com\/soccer\/chelsea-desperate-for-pochettinos-human-approach-to-pay-dividends\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chelsea\u00a0desperate for Pochettino&amp;apos;s human approach to pay dividends - All My Sports News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Life\u2019s a lemon for Mauricio Pochettino, but Chelsea aren\u2019t that bitter as key executives still have faith&#8230; 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