Pundits warns Chelsea ‘different class’ Fernandez might contemplate future
The Blues will spend the worldwide break sitting twelfth within the Premier League, with a win at house to Luton their solely League victory to date this marketing campaign.
It comes after Chelsea completed final season in twelfth too, with Thomas Tuchel, Graham Potter and Frank Lampard all struggling to supervise a constant run of outcomes regardless of the membership’s enormous spending.
Fernandez was a kind of to reach in January, becoming a member of for £107million from Benfica, and has impressed within the Chelsea midfield even with all of the upheaval round him.
The 22-year-old was unable to do something about the Blues’ defeat to Nottingham Forest earlier than the worldwide break although, a end result Merson believes additional emphasised the crew’s clear weak point as he instructed Fernandez deserves higher.
“Mauricio Pochettino will get it right because he’s a good manager, but it’s going to be hard. If they get in the top four then they will be pulling up trees,” Merson advised Sky Sports.
“They’ve bought too many players that are the same. Enzo Fernandez is different class – a cut above the rest. But how long will he stand for this?
“There’s not enough guile in the team. You haven’t got players that will put the ball through the eye of a needle.”
He added: “They can’t break teams down. It’s like watching Subbuteo football – there’s no movement. Unless Fernandez finds that killer pass, no one else will.”
The Blues have spent greater than £1bn throughout the final three switch home windows, however don’t have any European soccer to look ahead to on account of final season’s struggles.
Merson insists getting again into the Champions League can be a serious achievement for the membership, however factors to that as proof of how requirements are have dropped at Stamford Bridge.
He stated: “Chelsea have brought in a million players and you think: ‘How do you get a team out of this lot?’
“Chelsea is about winning trophies. It’s not Tottenham, trying to get in the top four, but that’s where it’s got to – so quickly, as well.”