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Joe Cole believes Mauricio Pochettino has nan 'hardest occupation successful world football' and urged is erstwhile nine to instrumentality pinch nan existent boss.
The Argentine has been nether immense unit this season, arsenic Chelsea person struggled for consistency contempt complete having a playing squad that's had complete £1 cardinal worthy of talent injected into it.
He has led nan nine to nan Carabao Cup Final and an FA Cup Semi-final, but they stay 9th successful nan Premier League and are still an extracurricular stake for a European spot astatine nan extremity of nan campaign.
However, speaking connected TNT Sport earlier nan Blues conflict pinch Aston Villa, Cole hailed nan occupation Pochettino has done successful nan circumstances and labelled nan Chelsea station arsenic football's astir difficult job.
'Is he blameless? Like Chelsea, are not wherever they want to be,' Cole said.
Joe Cole says that Mauricio Pochettino has nan hardest occupation successful shot astatine his existent post
The Argentine leader has been nether unit this play but shouldn't beryllium replaced
The Blues person struggled for consistency this play and are extracurricular nan European places
'That's a fact, you know, not wherever they should be. With nan money that they've spent and nan players that person travel successful and retired nan door, I deliberation Mauricio is doing a awesome job.
'I deliberation he's sewage nan hardest occupation successful world football, because I deliberation it's clear that it's not successful complete power of ins and outs coming in. That's for sure.
'Expectations are monolithic and rightly so, because that's what they utilized to nan past 20 years, Chelsea had been arsenic bully arsenic as bully arsenic immoderate nine successful Europe, barring astir apt Real Madrid, successful position of winning trophies that are competing successful this league. S
So they conscionable request to instrumentality pinch him and move forward. Changing managers, I committedness you, is not nan correct measurement to go.'
Chelsea went into Saturday's conflict pinch Aston Villa six points down Newcastle successful nan past remaining European spot, but still smarting from nan 5-0 thrashing they sewage from London rivals Arsenal successful midweek.
Todd Boehly has splashed complete £1 cardinal into nan existent squad without immoderate rewards
Former Blues leader Glenn Hoddle thinks Chelsea deficiency a existent spine and request experience
Yet, Cole's chap pundit - erstwhile Blues leader Glenn Hoddle - agrees that nan nine person to instrumentality pinch nan existent head and he has to beryllium fixed clip to find a spine to nan squad adjacent season.
Hoddle said: 'I deliberation there's disappointment. They've sewage to semifinal. They sewage to a final. As I said, astatine times they look right. They look much than okay against nan apical teams successful nan league. That consistency isn't location yet.
'I think he's sewage to beryllium fixed much clip to execute that adjacent season. And I deliberation it's a large play for him. Obviously he's sewage to commencement well, but I deliberation if he gets his players backmost fresh players, youngsters would person learned from this acquisition and find retired what his strongest 5 aliases six players are, that you request a spine.
'And I don't deliberation he's really recovered that this play that will thief him, if they enactment fresh and past he tin section astir that.
But this is simply a spot of a rebuild successful galore ways, and I deliberation he's sewage to beryllium fixed much time, without a doubt.'
Owner Todd Boehly invested heavy successful nan squad again past summer, making large money deals for Nicolas Jackson, Moises Caicedo, Romeo Lavia and Christopher Nkunku.
All of which person truthful acold grounded to unrecorded up to their value tag, pinch only £40 cardinal signing Cole Palmer proving to beryllium nan club's champion spot of business.
