José Mourinho plays up Chelsea youth policy but John Terry last to make it

String of highly regarded youngsters have failed to make first team but Chelsea insist recruitment of young talent is more targeted and will bear fruit soon

• Mourinho wary of bringing young guns to Premier League duels

• Chelsea win Uefa Youth League final against Shakhtar Donetsk

Call it the Chelsea paradox. On Monday their under-18s will run out at Manchester City’s purpose-built Academy Stadium for the first leg of the FA Youth Cup final. It will be Chelsea’s sixth final in eight years – three of which ended in triumph – and comes just days after their under-19s lifted the Uefa Youth League with a 3-2 victory over Shakhtar Donetsk in Nyon, Switzerland

And yet. Until one of those young players becomes the first to establish himself as a first-team regular since John Terry did so 15 long years ago, the accusation will always be that Chelsea’s commitment to developing their own players is only so much hot air.

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