Mauricio Pochettino admits Chelsea made MISTAKES after spending staggering £1billion on transfers
MAURICIO POCHETTINO admits Chelsea have made mistakes after spending £1BILLION on players.
The Blues are languishing in 11th place with just three wins from 10 games this season.
Todd Boehly’s new-look squad showed early signs of promise in pre-season, avoiding defeats to Brighton, Newcastle and Fulham as they won the inaugural Premier League Summer Series.
But Chelsea are now struggling for form and goals after suffering a 2-0 home defeat to Brentford.
And Poch believes it’s down to the high number of ins and outs during the transfer window.
This summer’s overhaul saw a turnover of 40 players, with Chelsea signing 12 and offloading 28 to take their spending to £1bn.
Pochettino believes it’s playing a significant role in his side’s struggles.
And he reckons it will take time to get things right with his new team of youngsters.
But Poch has also warned Boehly that Chelsea can’t afford to repeat the “mistakes” of ripping things up root and stem.
He explained: “Things that go against you, you have to try to resist them and try to survive.
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“You have to be quiet and be strong. And not to lose your balance, because it is easy to blame or say something that is going to affect other people and lead to division in the club.
“The important thing is to trust the ideas, the judgement and analysis of why certain things have not happened.
“To help the organisation to be better and to improve, and not to make the same mistakes again.
“The most important thing is to learn from the mistakes. At the moment I think we are a young team.
“A young team means too many changes in the summer because of the circumstances and we are suffering – sometimes good and bad results, but performances are consistent.”
Pochettino also jumped to the defence of Nicolas Jackson, who came under fire from supporters after a dismal day out against Brentford.
The striker was also criticised by Alan Shearer on Match of the Day.
But Poch said: “I think that Nico, if you watch the game against Liverpool or Dortmund in pre-season, or Luton, he was doing what the analysis was about and what we expect.
“But for different circumstances, Nico is not at his best today. For different circumstances, but we need to recover the player that was.
“It’s really dangerous, this type of analysis, because it’s one game. I cannot lie, it wasn’t his best, but we need to be fair. If you watch Luton, if you watch Dortmund in pre-season, if you watch Liverpool, you will see this is one player.
“The Brentford game was another player. I agree with the analysis, but it’s not fair to say he is not capable of doing what we expect of him.
“I believe in him. The only problem is time. I don’t want to give examples, but he arrived at Chelsea in situation that is not easy for him.
“Maybe players with more time than Nico, they are not performing in the way that we expect. We need to give time, for sure he has the conditions.
“Nico is young, he arrived this season, circumstances didn’t help him perform at his best. What can we do? Throw him in the bin and say he is useless? Come on, we need to give him confidence.”