Chelsea coach, Mauricio Pochettino, has begged fans to be patient with his young team after winning only one Premier League game in the 2023/2024 season.
The American owner, Todd Boehly’s has spent €401.1 million on transfers during the 2023 summer window, with Pochettino being fully backed by him.
Chelsea have signed a total of 11 players this summer, with Moises Caicedo the most expensive to sign for the club after his move from Brighton & Hove Albion for an initial fee of €116m (£100m).
Romeo Lavia joined from Southampton for €68m (£58m); Christopher Nkunku joined for a fee of €60m from RB Leipzig while Axel Disasi joined from AS Monaco for €45m and Lesley Ugochukwu (€27m from Stade Rennais).
Since the season began, Chelsea are 12th on the table after losing 3-1 to West Ham and 1-0 to Nottingham Forest.
Pochettino said: “They were [once] young also, John Terry was young, Frank Lampard was young, (Didier) Drogba was young.
“You know better maybe than me, that is a completely different pressure. This is a different Chelsea to what I saw when I was at Tottenham or Southampton.
“What I want to translate is the fans want to win because the normal way in the past for Chelsea is to win.
“We need to accelerate all the process, but I understand that the process is completely different to in the past.
“We have a different approach to the game and the philosophy and the ideas, we have a young squad of course.”