Chelsea considering their situation this summer is sensible, but if they come to any conclusion which sees Pochettino leave they are unsalvageably stupid. “I wish the new manager well. I don’t know.
..it’s his problem, I guess.
Is that the headline you wanted?” It was certainly the one we got, with Frank Lampard bestowing upon Mauricio Pochettino the burden of managing Chelsea and making sense of the operational muddied waters at Clearlake after an embarrassing caretaker reign for all involved . The “problem” was exchanged rather than shared, and multiplied instead of halved. Chelsea finished 12th, spent almost £400m on a dozen new players, recouped more than half of that by selling another 14 and acknowledged the complications of handling such a massive squad by making it both bigger and younger.
There is no sense in pretending Pochettino has navigated that route seamlessly. Chelsea have looked every bit as amateurishly coached and relentlessly directionless at times this season. Arsenal, Sheffield United, Burnley and Wolves were low points which undermined all semblance of progress.
Their defensive record has been historically bad and the gap to the elite remains a daunting chasm. The winning run to end the campaign was heartening but what came before it cannot be ignored. An end-of-season review is entirely justified; as fashionable and fun as it is to knock Todd Boehly and friends, that is a perfectly sensible course of action.
But any suggestion it will end i.
