At least Mauricio Pochettino can address the players in one dressing room.
Chelsea’s new head coach arrived at Cobham on Monday morning for his first official day in charge of a rebuilding project largely caused by his bosses’ over-exuberance in the transfer market. And he swiftly admitted “it’s a very different approach” to the club he came up against while working across town at Tottenham.
But predicting how the Argentine’s first competitive XI will look next month is no easy challenge considering the recruitment team continue clearing out a squad that became so bloated last season players were briefly getting changed in the training ground corridor.