Former Tottenham star believes Mauricio Pochettino’s brutal coaching regime could possibly be behind Chelsea’s poor begin to the season as he claims ‘a few of our gamers struggled’

Chelsea poor begin to the season could possibly be all the way down to Mauricio Pochettino‘s gruelling coaching strategies, claims a former Tottenham participant who featured beneath him.

The Blues are 14th within the Premier League desk after dropping three, drawing two and successful simply one in all their video games to date – regardless of spending round £400million on gamers like Moises Caicedo, Romeo Lavia, Cole Palmer and Nicolas Jackson.

That got here after proprietor Todd Boehly had already sanctioned a spend of round £600m the season prior – with 13 gamers arriving and plenty of of Chelsea’s dependable previous guard leaving via the exit door. 

Chelsea have since struggled to adapt with the large adjustments to personnel and Pochettino has been unable to galvanise a squad that was already in freefall having labored beneath Thomas Tuchel, Graham Potter and Frank Lampard final season.

Along with sweeping adjustments on the switch entrance, Chelsea are nonetheless coming to phrases with Pochettino’s strategies, that are notoriously demanding and require excessive health ranges to execute.

Mauricio Pochettino’s robust coaching strategies could possibly be behind Chelsea’s poor begin, in response to a former Spurs participant

The Blues are 14th within the desk after dropping three of their first six video games in a rocky begin 

Aaron Lennon, who performed beneath the Argentine within the 2014-15 season feels his gruelling regime is likely to be behind Chelsea begin – revealing that various his previous team-mates struggled throughout Pochettino’s first 12 months in north London. 

‘In case you do take a look at the harm listing, I truly checked out it and thought [about] Pochettino’s coaching strategies,’ he instructed Stadium Astro, by way of the Evening Standard.

‘He does change the coaching routine. He did it when he got here to Spurs. A few of our gamers, we did wrestle at first as a result of it was a very completely different load and possibly that’s enjoying a component.

Lennon performed a complete of 17 video games beneath Pochettino through the 2014-15 marketing campaign earlier than being loaned – and ultimately offered – to Everton after one 12 months. He featured 364 instances in complete for Spurs, scoring 30 targets.

Aaron Lennon, who performed beneath the Argentine in 2014-15, claimed ‘a few of our gamers struggled’ along with his gruelling regime

Pochettino is famend for his exhausting double coaching periods – in addition to placing his gamers via robust working checks

Now 36 having retired final 12 months – final enjoying for Burnley – the previous England winger predicted a troublesome marketing campaign for Chelsea, who he feels have an excessive amount of inexperience and too many adjustments to deal with. 

‘I actually suppose Chelsea are in for a tricky season,’ he added.

‘We have talked about altering so many gamers and so many managers, and plenty of these gamers are actually younger, they’ve not performed within the league they usually’ve come for giant, massive worth tags. The strain of what Chelsea followers count on, they don’t seem to be going to just accept this.

‘They’re on 5 factors in six video games, no targets in three video games. For Chelsea? It is exceptional. They’re beneath huge strain and I actually suppose Pochettino has bought a troublesome, troublesome process at hand.

‘It is a bit like Man United on the minute, it is simply story after story, and that is when, usually, issues usually are not going nicely and gamers are sad.’ 

Pochettino will hope to see his facet flip a nook when Chelsea host Brighton at house within the Carabao Cup on Wednesday evening, earlier than travelling to Craven Cottage to face Fulham subsequent Monday.