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Since Chelsea integrated Mason Mount, Reece James, Billy Gilmour, and Tammy Abraham into the first team, there has been an expectation for the Blues to use their youth at any given opportunity.

The harsh reality is that that has never truly been the 'Chelsea way'. The Blues have left the Roman Abramovic era, but there are still traces of his legacy being left behind. It's not a negative entity in the way Chelsea has been run, but it's a habit that many would like to leave behind.

The treatment of Chelsea Academy graduates hasn't always been placed in a positive light. The failure to regularly integrate youth into the first team was frowned upon but masked by continuous success. Now that Frank Lampard and Thomas Tuchel had set the tone and shown what can be achieved with Cobham graduates at the team's core, fans are demanding more.

Levi Colwill is thought to be the next up from the academy. He has been praised highly and placed in the same potential bracket that Mount and James once were. With that being said, he may not feature in Chelsea's upcoming season, and that comes as a sad surprise to many. His season on loan to Huddersfield was extremely promising, yet the Blues are set to buy three new centre-backs to take his place in the pecking order. There's an explanation for everything, and Thomas Tuchel has given us one.

Speaking in Los Angeles after pre-season training, he spoke about the academy