In an interview with the Telegraph, he revealed, “I went to the first team at Chelsea and played under Rafa Benitez and I always thought, ‘why is everyone saying setbacks are coming because everything is going up, up, up?'”
“The season after Benitez left I thought, ‘this is going to be my season’. Then Jose Mourinho came and, without training, I got dropped into the second team.That was one of the toughest things for me, mentally. I was quite broken.”
“Everything was going great, I played a few games, I was young player of the year and then I was in the reserves again.”
Ake has been linked with a sensational return to Chelsea for the last few transfer windows now. The young defender has certainly proved his worth in the Premier League and has a bright future ahead of him with or without Chelsea.
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