Ahead of the current season it was always the plan for Chelsea to move veteran midfielder Florent Malouda in order to make way for new recruits for a new-look Blues side but so far the club have failed to find a new team for the Frenchman and he’s been in exile since the summer, have the club been too quick to freeze him out?
No matter what your opinion of Malouda he’s still a Chelsea player, he’s still picking up big money and he’s still a better option than some of the players that are currently involved in the first team set-up, such as Yossi Benayoun, so why is he being made to train with the under-21s?
The same board that have adopted a revolving door policy at Chelsea, sacked double winning managers Carlo Ancelotti and Roberto Di Matteo, and appointed the most unpopular manager possible in Rafael Benitez have conveniently painted Malouda as the bad guy. Some of the criticism is true as he is ‘sitting on a contract’ after all, but he’s only able to do so because of the agreement he came to with the club for those wages and terms.
We’ve already seen this before when Nicolas Anelka and Alex were frozen out during the time of Andre Villas-Boas, who had been blamed originally, but I doubt Benitez took one look at Malouda and decided he could stay training with the youth team and it looks increasingly as though the likes of Michael Emenalo and the board decided the fate of the aforementioned and whoever the manager is has no choice but to accept it.
Luckily for Anelka and Alex they managed to secure moves to nouveau riche clubs Shanghai Shenhua and Paris Saint-Germain respectively, who agreed to pay their wages but there has been no such luck for Malouda. It had been reported in the summer that Chelsea had been demanding a fee for the player which was incredible as many wondered how can you hold a value on a player that isn’t even allowed to train with the first team. As it stands, it seems as though we cannot shift him for free.
Surely Chelsea would have been better off giving Malouda the same chance as any other player during the pre season and if he’d been half decent then a club may have been more inclined to go in for him.
Unfortunately it seems as though the bridges have been burned between the club and the player and there’s no way we will see him play for the first team again, but he’s received far more criticism that he has deserved and it’s astounding that we would treat a player that played a major part in winning our first Premier League and FA Cup double amongst other honours.
Yes he was frustrating at times and didn’t really settle until Guus Hiddink lit a fire under his arse, but he’s scored 45 goals and made 44 assists in his 220 appearances in a blue shirt. He’s also tactically aware and experienced, could he have helped counter the naivety that has cost Chelsea all too often this season?
There may be a back story we are not privileged to, but this is still a player who not so long ago was captaining his country. Unless CFC learned nothing from Bogarde, surely his contract must have stipulated maintaining standards in training.
If he’d been at least playing for the reserves, he’d have been a better option than the horribly rusty Benayoun.
The latter was a player of reasonable talent, but has hardly played any first team football in three years. Largely down to injuries, but still a poor choice protecting three points away from home. A wing back like Malouda would have been a much better option, if a bit to similar to Bertrand.
Chelsea shld learn to treat there old players fairly, the way the treat there players give there fans some concern. The shld treat there old players with respect.
I think i make a wrong option by joining cfc.
go back to where you from then
?? don’t even knw why CFC ????§ treating there old player like D?????ª? nd ?? think ????§ bcos of changing our Coach severally in which each and every one of them came with there own style Malouda has loss His form since but he shld hv beem giving a chance †?? ? prove him self again but ?? will keep saying D?????ª? ?? don’t like D?????ª? bitch benites he lake coaching mentality…..
Cfc has prblm of mis mgt since keown n frank anersen left chelsea. Roy gourlay nd emenalo are d prblm of cfc nt d owner. The treatment 2 malouda is very unfair. If cfc continue treatin dere senior lyk diz, no player wil eva comit 2 d team progres. U cn c nw dt dere is no fightin spirit in dt team any more.
cheap politicking asides, MALUODA is times ten better than bertrand, whose role on the field i personaly dont know and if care is not taking, chelsea will help to destroy his career before it even started..
Malouda would have done better on that day bertrand wasted 90 minutes jumping, running aimlessly, since our stubborn coach deem fit a defender ahead of marin or BA.
Wot a stupid manager we have!i dnt really knw what benitez is still doing in CFC,senior players shld have been treated like a new born babie,but in CFC nting like that and this have caused us to lose many cup this season,in the first place we shlsnt have allow didier to go and see what is happening to florent too i think CFC have to chnge there bad mentality abt there senior players
this is really unfair,this was d same guy who played for chelsea with all that he had,i lst think chelsea shud have a rethink over this guy future
the only team with lots of money and unsolve problems!! my own team chelsea.. get rid of whole administrtion and technical staff!! not firing coaches every year.. hellooooooo!
and by the way.. we need also players commitments as such!we cannot buy buy buy new players every season, and facing as runners up in epl every season since last epl cup(when?)..players must unite a one .. let’s give malouda change.. hope he will stop selfishness!!