Chelsea all at sea: Ponderous Pochettino, misfiring stars despite £1 billion in transfers and clueless American owner

Mauricio Pochettino was on a rambling roll after Chelsea’s loss to Wolves last week. His stream of thought went like this: “To be focused on playing football, you need to be free in your mind. You can’t be affected because of the stock market in New York or Tokyo, or the weather in I don’t know where because the farms cannot grow the cereals. That is why I keep my hair like this. It’s because I do not suffer for things that I am not in charge of. I only suffer for sport, for football, to try to improve the players, to give them good things. A good platform to win games. If there is no rain at my farm, I cannot grow the crops. You kill the business of my family on the farm and they need money. That is stress. With that, you can lose your hair. But I cannot lose my hair because the opponent was better than us.”

Pochettino was trying desperately to get the point across that The Blues need to be patient and, on the night, their opponents were better than them. While pointing out that his thick mop at 51 wasn’t particularly thinning because of Chelsea’s wretched run.

The mind-mangled managerial musings might not have made much sense but it is the perfect metaphor for the mess Chelsea are in at the moment in the Premier League.

Except for a midweek win against Aston Villa in the FA Cup, Chelsea have conceded 8 goals in their last two Premier League matches with 4-1 and 4-2 losses to Liverpool and Wolves respectively.

These strings of results have even led to player Thiago Silva’s wife taking to social media and demanding the manager’s sacking. This does not exactly paint a harmonious picture of a locker room united.

The club which was once revered as a powerhouse and won the Champions League just 3 years ago, look like a