Big Interview w/ Laurence Stewart and Paul Winstanley who have decided to sit down and discuss their time at Chelsea so far.
Winstanley joined Chelsea from Brighton and Hove Albion in December. Stewart arrived from Monaco in February. Both understood the job in hand at Stamford Bridge: there was significant work to be done on and off the pitch. ‘We knew there was going to be a big transition,’ starts Winstanley. ‘No chance to sit back and relax, that’s for sure. Did we think we would oversee a Premier League record of transactions? Probably not. 'But the average age of the squad was high, we had players with contract issues which had been inherited from an ownership change, and then there were players who made it clear they wanted to leave. That needed to be addressed.’ ’The volume of players out, the volume of players in, the turnaround has been significant,’ explains Stewart. ‘But there were certain things we had to achieve for the club, and for the group, this summer because results on the pitch at the end of last season made it clear it wasn’t working. We had to make changes to put the club in a be...