Reece James is stepping up as a strong captain at Chelsea now

If we will maintain Reece James as match as doable going into this new season and past, he can simply be the most effective total gamers in world soccer. He’s THAT good.

Watching James mature not simply on the pitch however off it as effectively, over these final couple of seasons, has been an actual pleasure to observe.

I bear in mind writing articles about James saying I wished to see him extra vocal and doing extra ‘captain issues’. And now, we see it each week. He’s grown into the function like all of us believed he would and wanted to. And now he’s turn out to be a arise captain. I see him motivating gamers in the course of the video games, I see him getting concerned to calm his group mates down or again them up, I see him speaking way more, and he’s additionally saying all the fitting ‘captain issues’ off the pitch.

That is precisely what we would like and want to listen to as followers. We’ve got expectations as a result of should you don’t, then the place are the requirements? James is true, this IS Chelsea FC, we are supposed to be difficult for titles always. If we let these requirements slip, ever, who’s to say they might ever come again?

It’s so essential to breed this mentality into everybody on the membership, no matter who the gamers are, who the homeowners are, who the supervisor is, this HAS to be our ethos.

To listen to our membership captain speaking this fashion fills me with extra confidence going into the brand new season.

James leads by instance on the pitch and he’s now standing up off it as effectively. He’s turning into an excellent captain.

I simply hope each single day that he can keep match for a sustained interval. As a result of he’s obtained the world at his ft now if he can simply maintain himself as match and injury-free as doable.