Josh McEachran Part 2

http://joshuajameshodgson.blogspot.com/2011/10/chelsea-youth-academy-part-1-josh.html

Above is the first part of this article. Now I want to take a look at McEachran's progress at Swansea. Since joining Swansea he has made three apperances, a small amount considering the claims I made in my last article. McEachran has yet tp make an impact at Swansea although I may revisit that statement depending how this weekend's game against Manchester City goes. However I have revisited this article because I wondered why hadn't he been taken into consideration at Chelsea.

Obviously it isn't breaking news that Andre Villas Boas is no longer Chelsea manager. What is confusing for me is that he did not use McEachran even though Villas Boas rejected his original proposed loan move to Wigan. I understand his current loan move is ideal working under former Chelsea reserves coach Brendan Rogers but all McEachran wanted was game time. My issue would be that Villas Boas claimed he had first team plans for McEachran and that he would play players in the right matches. Apparently in his 3-1 loss to Napoli he did not need Ashley Cole, Frank Lampard or Micheal Essien as well as droppin gan out of form Torres who can be unpredictable. Even if i do not slate his decision to do this in the first place why did he use out of position and under perfroming players when he could have added a youthful spark such as Ryan Bertrand or if he had not sent McEachran on loan he could have used his skills to suprise Napoli and take a worthwhile risk opposed to the miserable attempt he made that night.

Hopefully whoever next manages Chelsea will take note of this fantastic young talent!