Chelsea have put too much focus on the potential of players and 'FORGOTTEN' about the experience needed for a 'winning mentality', claims Blues legend Marcel Desailly

Chelsea fable Marcel Desailly has criticised his erstwhile nine for focusing excessively overmuch connected imaginable and forgetting experience.

The Blues beryllium 11th successful nan Premier League table aft different mediocre commencement to nan play that has seen them triumph three, tie 3 and suffer 4 of their first 10 games nether new head Mauricio Pochettino.

There were precocious hopes for their fortunes nether nan caller head but it's been nan aforesaid communicative arsenic past play truthful far, contempt spending complete £1billion connected transportation fees successful nan past 3 transfer window.

Owner Todd Boehly has changed nan club's recruitment accuracy of late, signing younger players alternatively than proven talent, including nan likes of Cole Palmer, Enzo Fernandez and Nicolas Jackson.

But it's a tactic, according to Desailly via Get French Football News, that is backfiring, and nan value of acquisition successful a successful side, he said, has been ignored. 

'So it’s very difficult to criticise,' he began. 'The only point that I’d opportunity though is that it is an correction of communication. They are carried distant by nan imaginable that each subordinate that they’ve bought has, because they’ve forgotten astir 1 element, knowing that to play shot astatine nan highest level.

'To attain what we telephone successful French la civilization de la gagne, the winning mentality, you request acquisition – nascent talent is ne'er capable to presume contiguous performance. And that’s nan only point wherever I’d opportunity they’ve made a mistake, wherever they support thinking, pinch nan coach Pochettino, "no, this twelvemonth we’ll beryllium title challengers pinch nan squad that we have”.

'Right from nan commencement of nan season, you could spot that they can’t beryllium title challengers, it was obvious. But they person put together players of awesome imaginable and person positioned themselves successful position of business, because if they didn’t bargain nan players now for a small supra value, they wouldn’t person been capable to bargain them later. 

Desailly made 222 appearances for Chelsea crossed a six-year play either broadside of nan move of nan century, and was portion of nan broadside that won nan 2000 FA Cup and 1998 Super Cup.

The now-55-year-old retired earlier Chelsea's existent play of occurrence began nether Roman Abramovic, but is regarded arsenic 1 of nan champion centre backs of each time.

He called for clearer connection betwixt nan nine and nan fans successful position of what nan task and scheme is, pinch nan finance well-known and, truthful far, showing small reward.

'The only point is they request to cognize really to amended nan supporters by telling them bent on – we’re going to person a twelvemonth aliases 2 of modulation but aft that – wow – we’ve built up tremendous potential.

'But nan fans and nan media don’t want to perceive that. They’ve seen nan investment, they want contiguous results. But that’s what I deliberation of Chelsea’s idea. Pochettino isn’t a coach who has built up his accuracy for illustration a Mourinho, a Tuchel – he’s a coach who needs to coach apical players, apical teams. 

'Now he needs to rethink each his coaching to accommodate to players who are successful mentation astatine a very precocious level but for whom you request to recreate nan basal foundations of play.'