Who's to blame for lack of width/balance?

Who exactly is accountable? The fact is, we're now almost 5 years since Robben departed for Madrid, a season later and SWP was gone too, although I fall (I'm possibly a minority) on the side of almost glad to see the back of the 2nd one.

Who's ultimately to blame for our failure to sufficiently replace those players? With Robinho, we like to blame Kenyon, and we're possibly right to, But he's gone and yet we still have allowed the team to stagnate.

It's been getting more blatantly obvious as the years go by that a well organised defence could nullify Chelsea as an attacking force. Yes I know you could point out Carlo's double team, but I said well organised. Inter had no real issues. And you could tell we ran out of ideas when we got to the final 3rd of the pitch.

Everybody from Chelsea TV, ourselves either at the matches or on platforms like this to the Man from Del Monte, has noticed we've lacked serious pace on the wings and creativity. Yet it hasn't really been addressed. The fact that players have been played out of position (in the major matches) at the detriment to the team has not been addressed.

So, last season, when we were on a bad run of form, the squad were depleted, we were completely devoid of pace and creativity, what did Chelsea do? We sign a striker whom craves service, for 50m.

We could very easily blame Carlo, AVB etc, but the major consistency has been, Kenyon aside, the Board and the Scouts an negotiators have all kept their jobs, the Managers have been all too frequently replaced. I'm willing to bet even the board and the scouts earn more in a week than my annual salary. Or at least not that far off it. How come their jobs always appear to be safe but the man picking the team and in some cases, having to take players he may not have chosen to purchases job is always in question?

I cannot believe not one Chelsea Manager has not pointed out to the powers that be, "this team lack width, pace and creativity". We know Scolari did, yet it wasn't really acted on.

If Biggish is correct, our board has perhaps learned it's lessons and they're not gonna put all their 'eggs in 1 basket' this summer. But in the mean time it has taken them an awful long time, in which they've been paid rather a lot of money to learn what should have been a very easy lesson to grasp. And the team have to continue to the end of yet another season, devoid of what it really needs.