Chelsea's expensively assembled squad have been blasted for a lack of leadership following their 2-0 defeat at Everton on Sunday.
Mauricio Pochettino's side slid to their seventh defeat in 16 Premier League matches this season at Goodison Park.
The result leaves Chelsea 12th in the Premier League and on a miserable run of form with only one win in their last five games.
Successive defeats has increased the pressure on the Chelsea squad and Pochettino, with the Blues now 14 points adrift of the Champions League places.
One former Chelsea star has expressed their alarm at a lack of leadership in the current squad, despite owner Todd Boehly splashing out over £1billion on signings across three transfer windows.
Speaking on his The Obi Wan podcast, two-time Premier League title winner John Obi Mikel claimed the Blues were lacking leadership compared to his time at the club, when John Terry, Frank Lampard and Didier Drogba set standards.
'There is no identity of how the team want to play. I am a big believer in giving a manager time, I am not a believer in sacking managers left, right and centre,' Mikel said.
'Are we just going to sit on the fence and say we are still in a rebuilding process.
'There is no time for that. We need to start winning games. When I look at at the team, it comes down to a lack of leaders.
‘In the game against Everton, I looked around the pitch, there is not one single leader.
‘There is no-one to come out on the pitch to go at your colleagues and say, ‘Wake up, what are you doing?’, come to you and scream at you – this is what we had before.
‘The likes of Didier Drogba, John Terry and Frank Lampard, when you are having a s*** game, these guys would make you wake up.
'I look all around the pitch and I look at
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