WILKINS: "My time is done with Chelsea"

Ray Wilkins is featured in The Sun this morning talking of the relationship between him and Chelsea, the club he captained as a teenager and was employed as an assistant twice and has reveal that's it as far as he is concerned with the club.

He said:

"My time is done with Chelsea. When you put in as much money as Mr Abramovich, you are entitled to choose what you want to do. He didn't want me so I am no longer there. Back then I was cheesed off but I am not one of those guys who would keep saying I should be still there. It is part of my life which is done and dusted."

We will never know the reasons for Wilkins leaving the club as no official reason was given by the club. There has been all sorts of speculation about it but as Wilkins says, we need to draw a line under it and move on.

The problem I think we can all agree on was the timing of it. There are quite a few fans out there that believe it was a pivotal moment of our season and once it happened, we had a mountain to climb. Some people do not agree and that's part and parcel of football. You will always have an opinion.

All I will say, and it's what I have already stated on here, Wilkins leaving left a huge gap between Carlo and the players. Wilkins was the link man between the two and by all accounts was heavily involved in training so when he left the club the effect on everyone was massive.

I personally believe that Ray Wilkins was hugely underrated at the club and in football in general as an Assistant and our demise this season surely goes to prove that.

KTBFFH

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