For the first time in a long time at Stamford Bridge, the prospect of first team football for young players looks closer to reality than fairytale. Previously, depending on who you ask, the youth policy sometimes even resembled a nightmare.
Not only did the Blues fail to tap into the potential of much-vaunted starlets such as Josh McEachran and Nathaniel Chalobah, they contrived to miss the obvious potential contained within Kevin De Bruyne and Mohamed Salah, now two of the Premier League's biggest talents.
If Frank Lampard is to be believed, these lapses of patience and judgements are a thing of the past and several players will be looking to take advantage of Chelsea's new-found philosophy, imposed via their transfer window ban.