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Chelsea Is No Longer The Same, The Team Lack Charisma, Leadership – Drogba

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Chelsea Is No Longer The Same, The Team Lack Charisma, Leadership – Drogba

Didier Drogba, the Ivorian football legend, has opined that his former club, Chelsea, lack charisma and leadership, especially with the crop of players currently playing for the cub.

Despite lavish transfer spending under new owner Todd Boehly, Chelsea are 11th in the Premier League and will end this season without a trophy after defeat by Real Madrid in the Champions League.

Chelsea have sacked managers Thomas Tuchel and Graham Potter this season, while interim boss Frank Lampard has lost all four matches since taking over for a second spell this month.

It means they are unlikely to qualify for Europe for only the second time in 25 seasons.

With Chelsea’s faint Champions League dreams dashed on Wednesday, it now feels like damage limitation could be the main objective for the rest of this chastening campaign.

There are seven games still to play in the Premier League before the club, players and fans can take stock, and it is difficult to see how Frank Lampard will be able to pick his squad up and prevent their already record-breakingly bad form from spiraling even further.

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The Blues might even be only nine points above the bottom three if Nottingham Forest could pull off a shock at Liverpool this weekend.

And while reacting to the poor run in form, a former Chelsea striker, Didier Drogba, says he does not “recognize the club” compared with when he played at Stamford Bridge.

Drogba said, “It is not the same club anymore. “I don’t recognize my club. There is a new owner and a new vision.

“We try to compare with what was done under the Abramovich era, where there were many acquisitions of players, but the choices were very intelligent.

“Bringing in players like Petr Cech, Andriy Shevchenko, Hernan Crespo, Michael Essien, Didier Drogba, Florent Malouda, and I go on. It was to win titles and they are players who already have some experience. Here the strategy is different, they bet on young players.

“I think they certainly lack charismatic players and leaders. It needs players who take responsibility.”

Drogba won 12 major honours between 2004 and 2012 under previous owner Roman Abramovich, whose generous backing turned the Blues into serial trophy winners following his takeover in 2003.

The 56-year-old was forced to sell the club last year after he was sanctioned by the UK government over alleged links to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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