Intra-squad relationships ‘inappropriate’ – Chelsea’s Hayes

Chelsea supervisor Emma Hayes mentioned player-to-player relationships throughout the identical staff are “inappropriate” as a result of they current additional challenges to handle, though she acknowledged that “we’re coping with human beings.”

Hayes is in her final season at Chelsea earlier than she takes over the US ladies’s nationwide staff in June when it’s anticipated she is going to lead the aspect for the primary time in a pair of pleasant matches in opposition to South Korea.

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Talking at a information convention earlier than this weekend’s recreation in opposition to Arsenal, Hayes was requested about participant safeguards after widespread reviews within the British media that Leicester ladies’s supervisor coach Willie Kirk is being investigated by the membership following an allegation of a player-coach relationship.

“Now we have to have safeguarding, ensure that’s it is accessible for each membership to guard gamers,” Hayes mentioned.

“Participant-coach relationships, they’re inappropriate, player-to-player relationships are inappropriate.

“However we now have to have a look at it within the context of the place the sport has come from, and say ‘look we’re in an expert period now’ the place the expectations in place for gamers and coaches is such that each one of our focus and a focus has obtained to be on having the highest requirements.”

Hayes mentioned player-to-player relationships might be arduous to navigate for a coach.

“One participant’s within the staff, one’s not within the staff, one could be within the final 12 months of their contract, one won’t be,” Hayes mentioned.

“Everyone knows, these of us which have been within the ladies’s recreation for a protracted time period, these issues have been occurring in dressing rooms. Long term, it could be superb … the place you do not have to cope with that.

“We’re coping with human beings. We do discuss it internally.”

Hayes mentioned it is necessary to contemplate the historic contexts.

“Girls’s soccer as we all know has been a really newbie recreation for a protracted time period, so — and I say this round player-to-player relationships as nicely — there’s challenges that we’re transferring to some extent the place we ought to be transferring previous these locations,” Hayes mentioned.

Pernille Tougher and Magdalena Eriksson have been in a relationship for the previous decade and performed collectively at Chelsea for 3 seasons. They switched to Bayern Munich final summer season.