Chelsea legend Joe Cole has advised the club to sign Robert Lewandowski and John Stones on free transfers to boost the squad’s experience.
Cole believes the duo would be perfect additions to mentor Chelsea’s young squad, helping to fix a fractured dressing room culture and providing wisdom to foster a winning mentality under new manager Xabi Alonso.
In a chat with the club’s website, the former England international stated that the best thing Chelsea can do is to sign top talent with the experience needed to lead the side to glory.
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“And then you bring in your John Stones and Robert Lewandowski and players on a free transfer who don’t need to play every minute of every game, but they understand winning, they understand culture and they can still help out in the pitch and do bits.
“The current players need that, they’ve got it within the group, it can’t be from coaches, all the time.
“All the great teams are coached from within their own dressing room and its knowledge and wisdom passed down over the years.
“It just baffles me how people just don’t understand that. But hopefully, they (the Chelsea owners) have read the room and that’s the way they go now.
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“If not, if they don’t, then it’ll be all much of the same. Chelsea will be better next year and they’ll probably say we’re on the way up again. But you once you get back up, you’ll always hit the same ceilings.
“When you get to elite level, you need experience, you need wisdom and you need quality.”
Chelsea may also come under pressure to sell some of their best player now they have missed out on European revenue for next season.
