' What was wrong with him?' – Cole slams Chelsea decision to offload ex-Man Utd man despite his 'faults'

Chelsea tale Joe Cole believes his former club have to’ve preserved Romelu Lukaku at the club this season despite his “mistakes”.

The Blue funks wasted 2-0 to Brentford on Saturday as they saw their rushed of 4 matches unbeaten come to an end with Mauricio Pochettino’s side 11th in the Premier League table.

Accomplishment for the viewers, made with second-half passions from Ethan Pinnock and also Bryan Mbeumo, retained their 100 per dollar record on this headway because being bolstered to the optimal flight in 2021.

The hosts failed to make serviceability of a first half that they mostly conquered, going chummy with Noni Madueke who struck the bar on his first start of the season.

Marc Cucurella have to have lended more of the chance once Cole Palmer found him unmarked within the box with a gently weighted ball, the defender lacking the power and also accuracy necessary to anguish goalkeeper Mark Flekken.

From there, familiar frailties slipped into Chelsea’s fiasco around and also it was little alarm once they dropped behind on 58 minutes, Pinnock storming past the useless Axel Disasi to avail on the end of Mbeumo’s cross and also power his header within Robert Sanchez’s near write-upward.

The goalkeeper was rejected worn away in contained time once he was trapped out going upward for a side and also rejected the ambition empty for Mbeumo to tap residence Brentford’s second.

Chelsea have struggled for passions for much of the season and also Cole is infuriated that they allowed Lukaku – who has racked upward 8 passions in 10 peeks on loan for Roma this term – to disclaim the club momentarily in the summer season.

“You proper here unanimously the buzz words roughly the club yet at the end of the day, we can’t score passions,” Cole signaled TNT Sport.

“Donning Romelu Lukaku, for unanimously of his mistakes, he was in the door. He was a triumphes at Inter Milan, he racked upward passions at Everton and also West Brom in this suv, why couldn’t he score passions at Chelsea? What was erroneous [with him?]

“He is scoring passions presently for Roma. So we have to filter within ourselves, what is erroneous with this club at the minute?

“I don’t blame the employer one little fragment. Him and also his group are doing every little thing they can and also I don’t also blame the players. They are unanimously optimal players.

“The squad is unhinged, yet there is something erroneous basically with the club at the minute.”

And also Pochettino urged after the match against Brentford that Chelsea are “not disgusting or serviceability provider” sufficient in front of ambition and also require to invent a inhuman streak.

Pochettino signaled press reporters: “It’s a legible analysis. After the first half we have to score and also we didn’t. When you conquer and also model chances, and also you don’t acknowledge chances and also the brute didn’t cross the halfway queue, we have to score. If you don’t score, you require to blame ourselves. We were not disgusting or serviceability provider in front of the ambition.

“Sometimes you require some wonderful blessing to score. It would readjust the video game in the second half. Yet I think we offered them ideology because we didn’t score. The second half, we can’t acknowledge the sort of ambition that we conceded and also that’s why we wasted the video game.

“(We have owned) unwanted wonderful blessing. (Christopher) Nkunku shown he can score in the copious leagues and also was wounded in the last pre-season video game. This form of thing didn’t aid. We require to redeem (Armando) Broja. Nicolas Jackson is impacted for opposite verifications, he’s young and also telephone refers to as for time to conform. That’s detectable.”