The question is less 'what's going to happen to Mount/Abraham/James/CHO etc?' in the next 6-12 months, it's 'what's going to happen to Gallagher/Guehi/Anjorin/Bate/Livramento/Lawrence?' in that time, and regardless of your managerial choice, many of you rate these players.

Change creates uncertainty, there is fundamentally no disagreeing with that, and for as long as a manager with no previous academy connection comes in with a mandate to immediately improve results, the academy takes a back seat. And rightly so to an extent, but there's a but.

It's then easy to get lost in that chase and not look around you. Look at every manager prior to Lampard and how they treated the academy. For any success story, there was endless frustration and talents that got away. If you rated this current crop last week, same energy now.

If you wanted Anjorin or Bate or Livramento to get minutes a week ago, you want them to get minutes now too, because the argument will have been that they increased the chances of winning, regardless of who was in charge. But it's now deeper than that.

Because whatever you thought of Lampard and Morris and the staff, they fostered a connection that *no* other manager can with the academy. And so we're in a period of uncertainty and back to the 'show me, don't tell me' mantra for the next generation.

We wait. We give Tuchel time to get his feet under the table and to establish relationships with the other side of the road at Cobham. We wait to see if he wants Gallagher for next season or not. We wait to see if Guehi gets a chance or someone else is signed. We wait.

But we do so with more uncertainty than before. The same uncertainty that came with every previous manager who talked a good game but didn't go any further, even if they won things, even if they were 'successful'. THIS IS NO JUDGEMENT OR CRITICISM OF THE NEW MANAGER.

If you want a successful Chelsea, you want the next crop of youngsters to succeed, because they will be able to bring quality to future squads and ensure budget is there to go and get the best players outside of the club too. That's how it should work. You should want it too.

So watch the next few weeks and months closely and see what develops under the latest regime. Open minds but open eyes.