Chelsea are still reeling off their loss in the 2023/24 Carabao Cup final to Liverpool – and it appears that the club’s hierarchy are planning to help improve the overall quality of Mauricio Pochettino’s coaching staff soon by hiring a set-piece coach.
Chelsea Planning To Appoint Set-Piece Coach
Chelsea Set-Piece Coach: How Chelsea Aim To Implement Changes
Matt Law has stated that the Blues are now working to appoint a new set-piece coach who will be spearheading a brand new ‘set-piece department’ that the club wants to set up. It is added that this new department will be ‘club-wide.’
Law also states that Chelsea have already “sounded out candidates” to work in this new department – and it’s even possible that more than one candidate is appointed to work in this new system. However, there are still no assurances on how closely this new staff member will work with the Argentine manager, who has opted to work with his close confidantes in every club he has managed.
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Meanwhile, the Blues might have been inspired by their fellow Premier League clubs bringing changes to their set-piece culture, as Arsenal recruited a coach to help improve their free-kicks and corners from Manchester City, which has seen them score 19 set-piece goals in the division so far this season. Aston Villa and Nottingham Forest are other clubs to appoint such particular coaches.
What Did Mauricio Pochettino Had To Say About Coach Appointment?
Pochettino seemingly dismissed the need for Chelsea to have this kind of a staff member in his management team before their loss to Wolves at Stamford Bridge earlier this season, as he said: “We work a lot on set-pieces. After that, it is about the quality of the player. It is about the takers. We don’t have a specialist. Maybe Chilly is good in the delivery but after that, we don’t have a specialist. If you want to be good at set pieces, we work a lot. But then you need good takers. We have specialists (coaches). We are a coaching staff in charge of everything. You can have a specialist and you can promote the specialist. Or you can have the specialist and not promote the specialist.
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“Look before at West Ham and after. What changed? After and before? It’s not the same. The taker is (James) Ward-Prowse. Or he is Pochettino, no? Prowsey is a much better taker than me. For sure, you can work, like West Ham were working. But now, you add a player like him, you increase the percentage. That is football. Football belongs to the players. Not to the specialists.” Meanwhile, amid plans to appoint this coach, Chelsea also recently managed to make another appointment from Brighton by poaching their head of recruitment Sam Jewell.
