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ACADEMY OVERVIEW: CHELSEA

Speaking last week, Kaiser gave a rare insight into Chelsea's blueprint, claiming their youth academy will soon be one of the best in Europe.

"In the younger teams we have not reached the ultimate status yet," he said. "In Holland there are clubs who have a great partnership with colleges and schools.

"The English education system is more traditional. But I hope to create the same structure here."

Chelsea's top talents go to school only on Mondays. Kaiser works with a group of mainly English players. But he also has two Portuguese, a Slovak, a Finn, a Spaniard, a Dane and an Israeli.

Explaining the 'Chelsea bible', he said: "We work with the colour box system. It is all written down in a book for all the 130 youth players and coaches at Chelsea. It is about the Chelsea vision and the academy vision."

The five key ingredients for anyone wanting to graduate to Jose Mourinho's first-team squad are pride, style, integrity, unity and leadership.

The Dutchman is convinced the colour system and the Chelsea code will bring more success in the future for far less money.

"Everyone at the club thinks the same," he said. "The other week, we played Fulham with our top youth team. Fulham did not cope well with the way we played. They were moaning and they soon went into the role of victims. We call that the grey box at Chelsea.

"So from the dugout I shouted to my boys: 'Grey box'. All the players recognised the situation and, bang, they went into overdrive. They quickly moved up the tempo and killed them off by scoring the third goal."

Kaiser reveals that he also has to teach all the players the 'Mourinho drills' before they are delivered to the first team. In the 'Chelsea bible' there are 36 pages with 36 different drills.

In addition, every Chelsea youth player keeps his own logbook, recording how he trained and what kind of session he did for every day of the season.

source: The Daily Mail

Dutchman Ruud Kaiser, once a player with Ajax, has revealed the revolutionary methods Premiership champions Chelsea have adopted in their drive to produce enough talented young footballers to free the club from total dependence on the wealth of owner Roman Abramovich.

Chelsea's ambition to become the world's No 1 club will be furthered by an amazing youth policy, which will start producing players for the first team by 2008.

Kaiser, brought in to mastermind the system, has revealed that his methods include the introduction of a 'Chelsea bible', a colour-coding system and the adoption of 'Mourinho's drills', which every young player must carry out before being accepted into the first-team squad.