It was another crazy, chaotic and desperate night for Chelsea. They were horribly and ruthlessly exposed by a Southampton team with far more energy, spirit and desire.
Chelsea looked a team in utter disarray, searching for an identity which has been lost in a crazy soap opera of a summer with players coming in and out of Stamford Bridge’s revolving door transfer policy. No wonder Leicester ’s Wesley Fofana is next on the shopping list as the France defender’s imminent arrival will take the spending past the £250m mark.
They desperately need defensive reinforcements but the problem is they have already spent so much and still look a team a long way short of being the finished article. You could not possibly say at this stage whether Thomas Tuchel will be pushing for the top four - or trying to salvage a season after a scattergun approach in the transfer market.
