Fikayo Tomori has revealed that he almost quit Chelsea as a junior.
Tomori has revealed his dad convinced him to continue at Chelsea after an extremely daunting first experience at the club’s Cobham training base.
“Once I’ve left the centre of excellence, I’m going to Cobham and obviously this is proper Cobham, I’d see Tammy [Abraham] there, Dom Solanke,” Tomori told Chelsea TV while in discussion with his father, Olayinka.
“I noticed that I couldn’t just pick the ball up and run through everyone. So after that I got back in the car and I told my parents: ‘I’m not coming back here anymore’.
“It was obviously a level up and my dad said: ‘No, you’re going to come back’.
“It wasn’t the fact that he was saying: ‘You must be a footballer, you must play football’, it was kind of like, you are at a level where you need to challenge yourself.
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“There is no point playing with people that you find it too easy, if you come here and challenge yourself you are going to get better and I am glad he had that take on it.”