To be fair, Chelsea have a bevy of talents not too far off from the level of talent that Mbappe displays. But I agree - their youth policy is pretty shameful, that a talent like Loftus-Cheek only gets minuscule minutes is a good example of that. They will probably lose all of them, they will likely only want to keep Musonda and even he might go.
As for Mbappe, he looks better at 18 than Henry did, but that could also mean that he is closer to his peak. If not, then he could be scarily good. Which means that for now, he is nowhere on our radar as a potential target. He's already looking past/above us for his next move I feel, much like Ousmane Dembele.
In the inevitability that we will fail to draw talents like Mbappe here, I would like if we used our own academy products more frequently because they are also talented, and the only reason why we do not talk about our own in the same bracket is because they don't get chances to play outside of crappy loans and PL2 standard football. There's no reason why guys like Nelson, AMN and even Mavididi - who's had an impressive start to first team football so far - can't get to a similar level. They've just never had the platform that clubs like Monaco, Rennes and others have. I wouldn't even say it's because of the amount of talent we have in our squad because as good as our squad is, we've got quite a few surpassable squad players in there.
