Thierry Henry has admitted his problem about a deficiency of recreation time for just one of the players in his French less than-21 aspect.
The midfielder joined Chelsea in the summer time as aspect of the most current batch of signings designed under the ownership of Todd Boehly but has not still proven himself in Mauricio Pochettino’s aspect.
He has manufactured a handful of late cameos in modern video games, but Henry is fearful about gamers in his countrywide workforce squad that are not obtaining standard minutes.
The participant in problem has highlighted in all 4 video games for the French less than-21 facet as as Henry has made a 100 for every cent start off to his most up-to-date managerial purpose.
He was also rated as 1 of the top rated talents in Ligue 1 previous period, prompting Chelsea to section with £23.5million to protected his services in August.
Thierry Henry has voiced his problem at a lack of match time for one particular of his France underneath-21 players
The youngster joined Chelsea in the summertime but has experienced to compete for minutes with equally Enzo Fernandez (still left) and Moises Caicedo (appropriate)
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The Chelsea guy Henry is referring to is Lesley Ugochukwu, the 19-calendar year-aged who has been on the fringes at Stamford Bridge so considerably this year.
Ugochukwu has manufactured just one particular Leading League start out so significantly this term, with Pochettino preferring to decide on fellow new arrival Moises Caicedo along with Enzo Fernandez and Conor Gallagher.
Henry also expressed his issue at the comparable circumstance that fellow French prospect Johann Lepenant faces at Lyon.
L’Equipe have documented that he reported: ‘Johann’s predicament is more and more stressing. For us, he proceeds to be additional than superior and we are going to continue on to support him on a bodily stage while he’s on intercontinental obligation, but it can be up to him and his entourage to clear up the trouble with Lyon.
‘The problem is the exact with Lesley. Even if the scenario is various at Chelsea for the reason that in entrance of him there are gamers like Enzo Fernandez and Moises Caicedo.
‘But he is not taking part in, and currently, these gamers you should not even play with the reserve facet to keep their rhythm. At the commence of the time, you can profit from the actual physical conditioning of the pre-year but the benefits fade. I hope he can keep on to preserve on class bodily.’
Lesley Ugochukwu joined Chelsea from Rennes in the summer for £23.5million and has struggled for activity time in the Leading League
Mauricio Pochettino has started off Ugochukwu in all three of Chelsea’s Carabao Cup game titles this expression but has provided him just just one Premier League start off
Ugochukwu has been on a regular basis employed as a substitute by Pochettino and has played the total 90 minutes in all a few of Chelsea’s Carabao Cup fixtures this term.
And the former Tottenham boss has been pleased with what he’ witnessed from the Rennes academy graduate so much.
‘He is seriously younger and to contend at this degree [the Premier League] is normally complicated. But I assume his general performance was very good,’ Pochettino claimed just after Ugochukwu’s only Premier League get started towards Bournemouth.
Even so, it appears that Arsenal legend Henry is eager to see Ugochukwu attribute additional routinely in the near long run.