Darren Bent fears ‘there are more problems than we first thought’ at after their faltering start to the new season.
Much was expected from the big-spending Blues who invested heavily in what was already an expensively assembled squad.
New manager secured the majority of his top targets and was able to rid the first team squad of a number of fringe players who had been deemed surplus to requirements.
The first four games of the new campaign have yielded just four points, however, and a solitary win against newly promoted Luton Town.
Record signign Moises Caicedo, along with fellow new recruits Axel Disasi and Nicolas Jackons have shown only flashes of potential and Bent has been shocked by just how poor the Blues have been.
Asked for his biggest surprise of the season so far, the former Premier League striker told Sky Sports: From my perspective the surprise would probably be Chelsea.
‘I thought they’d be a lot better they’ve shocked me how poor they’ve been. I thought with Pochettino and the amount of players they signed they be up there competing for the top four.
‘The fact that they’re so far off it and the performances they’ve put in that’s really surprised me.
‘I thought once they got the manager in, Pochettino knows how to work with a new squad, the success he had at Spurs,
‘I just thought he’d be the final piece of the jigsaw to get them to where they want to get.
‘The fact they’ve been so far off it tells me there’s more problems than we first thought. They’ve surprised me the most, I thought they’d be better than they are.’
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