Thiago Silva has urged Chelsea to provide you with a “technique” to forestall the membership’s stoop stretching into subsequent season after Actual Madrid ended their Champions League marketing campaign.
The Blues’ closing hope of salvaging a disastrous season was snuffed out on Tuesday because the Spanish facet wrapped up an emphatic 4-0 combination win within the Champions League quarter-finals.
Brazil defender Silva admitted the season had been powerful for the membership and mentioned Chelsea’s bloated squad ensured there have been all the time sad gamers.
Chelsea have spent greater than £500 million ($620 million) on transfers since a consortium led by Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital Group purchased the London membership from Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich final yr.
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 below interim coach Bruno Saltor.
Lampard has misplaced 4 successive matches since returning on a short lived foundation, together with his facet scoring simply as soon as in that interval.
Chelsea are languishing in eleventh place within the Premier League desk — 17 factors adrift of the highest 4 — with seven video games to go and are unlikely to qualify for European competitors.
Silva, talking after Tuesday’s 2-0 dwelling defeat to champions Actual within the second leg of their quarter-final, mentioned it was essential to evaluate what had gone improper moderately than apportioning blame.
“It’s not sufficient to have a look at the coach, say ‘it is this individual’s fault, it is that individual’s fault’ if we do not assume our tasks,” he mentioned.
He added: “We have now to cease and have a technique to not repeat the identical errors subsequent yr.”
Silva, 38, mentioned the membership had been compelled to extend the scale of the altering room to accommodate their enormous squad, with eight new signings in January alone.
“I feel it’s a tough time for the membership, with an absence of definition initially, a change in proprietor, many gamers arriving — they even needed to enhance the scale of the dressing room as a result of there was not sufficient room for all of the gamers,” he mentioned.
“A optimistic level is that there are nice gamers within the staff however a destructive level is that somebody goes to get upset, as a result of not everybody can play and the coach has to choose 11 gamers and there are 30-something.”