The Times journalist Matt Dickinson wrote few months back that Chelsea’s greatest challenge was not about winning the league, nor the Champions League but producing quality young players from the academy.
It’s not like Chelsea do not sign young players. They sign top quality young stars every now and then, but the club probably do not have the patience to develop them into a world class star. The likes of Lucas Piazon, Josh McEachran, Gael Kakuta (who joined Sevilla), Romelu Lukaku and many others who were simply denied the opportunity to develop at Chelsea.