I set Chelsea's Victor Moses on His Path to Stardom - Neil Warnock

Victor Moses has gone from strength to strength in a wing-back position back at parent club Chelsea this season. The 26-year-old is on course to claim a first Premier League winners' medal after several disappointing loans in recent times appeared to have stalled his career.

Yet it has been suggested by one of his former managers that Moses might never have made anything of himself but for a stern word of warning during his early years at Crystal Palace.

Neil Warnock, who gave Moses his senior debut as a 16-year-old in 2007, recalled threatening Victor with a future of obscurity at non-league Bromley if he didn't work harder during an appearance on Sky Sports' Goals on Sunday at the weekend.

The outspoken 68-year-old, now in charge of Cardiff City, claimed the youngster never put enough effort in before that conversation.

"People like Victor Moses, who never tried a leg until I had a chat with him. And that just hit home with him one night," Warnock said on the programme.

"He did all the things going forward like he can, but he never defended, he didn't bother. I remember saying to him at [an away game against] Cardiff, 'You've got to grow up now, you can end up playing for Bromley, or you can go to the very top, it's up to you'.

"No disrespect to Bromley, but we used to play our reserve games there. And that night at Cardiff, he chased, harried, tackled.

"He went to the Africa Cup of Nations a few years ago (2013) and he got man of the [tournament]. I texted him: 'Remember Bromley?' And he texted me straight back, did Victor, and I love to see him now at Chelsea."

Moses moved from Palace to Wigan in 2010, impressing enough in Lancashire to earn a move to Stamford Bridge in 2012. He played just 23 times for his new club in the Premier League before loans at Liverpool, 

Stoke and West Ham, but has now featured in 24 of Chelsea's 25 league games so far this season, nearly all of them as a starter.

February 21, 2017