Chelsea have put too much focus on the potential of players and ‘FORGOTTEN’ about the experience needed for a ‘winning mentality’, claims Blues legend Marcel Desailly

Chelsea legend Marcel Desailly has criticised his former club for focusing too much on potential and forgetting experience.

The Blues sit 11th in the Premier League table after another poor start to the season that has seen them win three, draw three and lose four of their first 10 games under new manager Mauricio Pochettino.

There were high hopes for their fortunes under the new manager but it’s been the same story as last season so far, despite spending over £1billion on transfer fees in the last three transfer window.

Owner Todd Boehly has changed the club’s recruitment philosophy of late, signing younger players rather than proven talent, including the likes of Cole Palmer, Enzo Fernandez and Nicolas Jackson.

But it’s a tactic, according to Desailly via Get French Football News, that is backfiring, and the importance of experience in a successful side, he said, has been ignored. 

Desailly played for Cheslea between 1998 and 2004 and is regarded as one of the best centre backs ever

Chelsea have spent over £1billion on transfers in the last year in a youth-focused approach to signing players

‘So it’s very hard to criticise,’ he began. ‘The only thing that I’d say though is that it is an error of communication. They are carried away by the potential that each player that they’ve bought has, because they’ve forgotten about one element, knowing that to play football at the highest level.

‘To attain what we call in French la culture de la gagne, the winning mentality, you need experience – nascent talent is never enough to presume immediate performance. And that’s the only thing where I’d say they’ve made a mistake, where they keep thinking, with the coach Pochettino, “no, this year we’ll be title challengers with the team that we have”.

‘Right from the start of the…