Turmoil and transition are not preventing Emma Hayes from succeeding and do not write off Sam Kerr dominating the World Cup
1-0 to win the FA Cup at Wembley on Sunday, Hayes had a new label for her side. “What the team has become is the most flexible team,” she said. “Our team has become ‘hybrid monsters’. We can float between things in ways that takes years to master. They are so adaptable.”There are always incomings and outgoings, but football teams exist in cycles, with the core peaking and then being pulled apart as the side is reshaped for the next phase. Chelsea are in transition.
“All the time in training, we don’t play starting groups, we believe in different combinations, different relationships and everyone that knows me knows I don’t put together a team of 11 players – it’s about a squad,” Hayes had said before the final. That is the level United need to reach. The starting XI is strong, but Marc Skinner’s lack of rotation this term has frustrated a layer of the fanbase.
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