{"id":293975,"date":"2023-09-26T08:34:08","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T08:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/?p=293975"},"modified":"2023-09-26T08:34:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T08:34:08","slug":"ex-spurs-star-pochettinos-tough-methods-behind-chelseas-poor-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/soccer\/ex-spurs-star-pochettinos-tough-methods-behind-chelseas-poor-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Spurs star: Pochettino&apos;s tough methods behind Chelsea&apos;s poor start"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Former Tottenham star believes Mauricio Pochettino&#8217;s brutal training regime could be behind Chelsea&#8217;s poor start to the season as he claims &#8216;some of our players struggled&#8217;<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Chelsea boss Mauricio Pochettino has had a tough start to life at the club<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>An ex-Spurs player feels his gurelling training methods could be a reason\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Mail Sport&#8217;s new WhatsApp Channel: Get the breaking news and exclusives here\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Chelsea poor start to the season could be down to Mauricio Pochettino&#8217;s gruelling training methods, claims a former Tottenham player who featured under him.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues are 14th in the Premier League table after losing three, drawing two and winning just one of their games so far &#8211; despite spending around \u00a3400million on players like Moises Caicedo, Romeo Lavia, Cole Palmer and Nicolas Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>That came after owner Todd Boehly had already sanctioned a spend of around \u00a3600m the season prior &#8211; with 13 players arriving and many of Chelsea&#8217;s reliable old guard leaving through the exit door.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea have since struggled to adapt with the huge changes to personnel and Pochettino has been unable to galvanise a squad that was already in freefall having worked under Thomas Tuchel, Graham Potter and Frank Lampard last season.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to sweeping changes on the transfer front, Chelsea are still coming to terms with Pochettino&#8217;s methods, which are notoriously demanding and require high fitness levels to execute.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/26\/09\/75840085-0-image-a-12_1695715344534.jpg\" height=\"445\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Mauricio Pochettino&#8217;s tough training methods could be behind Chelsea&#8217;s poor start, according to a former Spurs player<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/26\/08\/75840039-0-image-a-2_1695714819825.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The Blues are 14th in the table after losing three of their first six games in a rocky start\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>Aaron Lennon, who played under the Argentine in the 2014-15 season feels his gruelling regime might be behind Chelsea start &#8211; revealing that a number of his old team-mates struggled during Pochettino&#8217;s first year in north London.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;If you do look at the injury list, I actually looked at it and thought [about] Pochettino&#8217;s training methods,&#8217;\u00a0he told Stadium Astro, via the Evening Standard.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He does change the training routine. He did it when he came to Spurs. Some of our players, we did struggle at the beginning because it was a completely different load and maybe that is playing a part.<\/p>\n<p>Lennon played a total of 17 games under Pochettino during the 2014-15 campaign before being loaned &#8211; and eventually sold &#8211; to Everton after one year. He featured 364 times in total for Spurs, scoring 30 goals.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/26\/08\/75840111-0-image-a-3_1695715124418.jpg\" height=\"395\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Aaron Lennon, who played under the Argentine in 2014-15, claimed &#8216;some of our players struggled&#8217; with his gruelling regime<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/26\/09\/75840247-0-image-a-18_1695715427647.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Pochettino is renowned for his exhausting double training sessions &#8211; as well as putting his players through tough running tests<\/p>\n<p>Now 36 having retired last year &#8211; last playing for Burnley &#8211; the former England winger predicted a difficult campaign for Chelsea, who he feels have too much inexperience and too many changes to contend with.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I really think Chelsea are in for a tough season,&#8217; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We&#8217;ve talked about changing so many players and so many managers, and a lot of these players are really young, they&#8217;ve not played in the league and they&#8217;ve come for big, big price tags. The pressure of what Chelsea fans expect, they&#8217;re not going to accept this.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;They&#8217;re on five points in six games, no goals in three games. For Chelsea? It&#8217;s unheard of. They&#8217;re under massive pressure and I really think Pochettino has got a difficult, difficult task at hand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s a bit like Man United at the minute, it&#8217;s just story after story, and that&#8217;s when, normally, things are not going well and players are unhappy.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pochettino will hope to see his side turn a corner when Chelsea host Brighton at home in the Carabao Cup on Wednesday night, before travelling to Craven Cottage to face Fulham next Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>IT&#8217;S ALL KICKING OFF!\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p><span>It&#8217;s All Kicking Off\u00a0is an exciting new podcast from Mail Sport that promises a different take on Premier League football, launching with a preview show today and every week this season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It is available on MailOnline, Mail+, YouTube , Apple Music and Spotify<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12561163\/Former-Tottenham-star-believes-Mauricio-Pochettinos-brutal-training-regime-Chelseas-poor-start-season-claims-players-struggled.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Tottenham star believes Mauricio Pochettino&#8217;s brutal training regime could be behind Chelsea&#8217;s poor start to the season as he <span class=\"more-text\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293974,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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