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“Culture change” Pochettino blames Todd Boehly takeover for Chelsea failures

“Culture change” Pochettino blames Todd Boehly takeover for Chelsea failures

Chelsea manager Mauricio Pochettino has blamed Chelsea awful start to live on the new ownership of the club, tagging it ‘culture change.’

Chelsea has failed to find their feet and are silently falling off the top club ranks in the Premier League since the takeover that saw Todd Boehly, Behdad Ehgbali and their associates become the club new owners.

From winning the Champions League in 2021 to struggling to win regular matches against Premier League club. Chelsea fans are yet to digest their club fall from glory.

Pochettino after the Chelsea 1-1 draw with Bournemouth revealed the cause of the teams continuous struggles. The Argentine tactician wrapped up the whole ill scenario that has made The Blues not live up to their standards on the new club handlers.

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Not pointing fingers directly, Pochettino wrapped it around creating a new culture. He insinuated that the present Chelsea is different from the old Chelsea which had a winning mentality.

Mauricio Pochettino added that he is working to create the culture of winning in these new players as it was in the past players.

“Chelsea is about winning but now it’s another Chelsea, another way to operate and that is why we’re working hard to create a culture to win with this group of players that was in the past completely different.”

Pochettino is the third coach brought in to manage Chelsea in the two seasons of Todd Boehly’s era. Graham Potter took over from Thomas Tuchel who was the sitting manager when the new ownership took over.

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Potter was sacked after a series of bad results. He was replaced with club legend, Frank Lampard who came in as an interim manager and continued with the bad results.

Pochettino kicked off the 2023/2024 season and have had a very slow start to life at Stamford Bridge. Chelsea have only managed to gain 5 points after five matches and are sitting 14th on the EPL table.

After just five games in charge, taunts of Pochettino to be sacked is brewing up amongst Chelsea fans with the #PochOut trend across social media platforms.

Football writer at AllSoccer. Graduate of Computer Science from Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa Polytechnic. Dreamt of becoming a footballer, find self writing about football.

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