Roman Abramovich's dream at Chelsea has already become true

Chelsea have the most valuable academy in London, as the recent study has shown. There are six academy players in the Blues' first team squad: Mason Mount, Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Reece James, Callum Hudson-Odoi, Trevoh Chalobah and Andreas Christensen. A new study conducted by Online Money Advisor, has revealed that Chelsea have made £92.8million from the sales of their graduate players since 2010 - £18.5m more than their rivals Arsenal (£74.3m). Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich has a "dream" for the club to start winning trophies with six or seven academy graduates in the squad, according to the Blues' former assistant manager Eddie Newton. Speaking to The Athletic earlier in the year, Newton said:

“They will always have a real interest in bringing young players through and that comes directly from the owner, Roman Abramovich.   “He envisages winning Champions Leagues and Premier Leagues with six [or] seven homegrown players and adding a few stars/experienced stars around it to win multiple trophies, year after year. That is the dream.   “But to get there is very difficult in the modern day. It’s more difficult when you are at the highest end of the football spectrum, more difficult to run academies and feed players into your first team.   “The pressure is always on a manager to succeed, even if you’re well established. The reliance is always on a senior player in the eyes of a manager. He has put a lot of money and work into the academy and wants to see the fruits of his labour.   “Everyone thinks it’s a holiday working on the loan and youth programme. It’s anything but. There is pressure, there are many meetings to see what’s happening on a regular basis.   “Neil [Bath, head of youth development] is under pressure to develop the players to come through the system, he’s also got to find coaches all the time because coaches move on.”

Mount, Hudson-Odoi and James all scored for Chelsea recently as they demolished Norwich City 7-0, with all three players coming through the academy at Cobham. Source - football.london Join us on Telegram!/ Follow us on Twitter!

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