Thiago Silva has recommended Chelsea to get a hold of a “strategy” to stop the membership’s droop stretching into subsequent season after Real Madrid ended their Champions League marketing campaign.
The Blues’ last hope of salvaging a disastrous season was once snuffed out on Tuesday because the Spanish facet wrapped up an emphatic 4-0 mixture win within the Champions League quarter-finals.
Brazil defender Silva admitted the season were difficult for the membership and mentioned Chelsea’s bloated squad ensured there have been all the time unsatisfied gamers.
Chelsea have spent greater than £500 million ($620 million) on transfers since a consortium led by way of Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital Group purchased the London membership from Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich closing 12 months.
Frank Lampard, the present caretaker boss, is their fourth supervisor this time period following the sackings of Thomas Tuchel and Graham Potter and one recreation beneath meantime trainer Bruno Saltor.
Lampard has misplaced 4 successive fits since returning on a short lived foundation, together with his facet scoring simply as soon as in that duration.
Chelsea are languishing in eleventh position within the Premier League desk — 17 issues adrift of the highest 4 — with seven video games to head and are not likely to qualify for European festival.
Silva, talking after Tuesday’s 2-0 house defeat to champions Real in the second one leg in their quarter-final, mentioned it was once essential to evaluate what had long past flawed moderately than apportioning blame.
“It is not enough to look at the coach, say ‘it’s this person’s fault’, it’s that person’s fault’ if we don’t assume our responsibilities,” he mentioned.
He added: “We have to stop and have a strategy not to repeat the same mistakes next year.”
Silva, 38, mentioned the membership were compelled to extend the scale of the converting room to house their massive squad, with 8 new signings in January on my own.
“I think it is a difficult time for the club, with a lack of definition at the beginning, a change in owner, many players arriving — they even had to increase the size of the dressing room because there was not enough room for all the players,” he mentioned.
“A positive point is that there are great players in the team but a negative point is that someone is going to get upset, because not everyone can play and the coach has to pick 11 players and there are 30-something.”