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When Mauricio Pochettino arrived at the club last summer, Chelsea fans began feeling as though the tide was about to turn and they were finally set to escape mediocrity. And yet here we are, in the second half of the season, and Chelsea are struggling big time . A 4-2 loss to Wolves saw them tumble into the bottom half of the table, having already spent the vast majority of the campaign looking up at the rest of their rivals. Whether you're blaming Pochettino, the players, the ownership or a combination of all three, there's no escaping the fact that the responsibility falls on the manager to turn things around. Chelsea need major changes to get out of this slump, and here are five issue s Pochettino should look to address first. Meritocracy in attack Sterling & Mudryk have both struggled / Visionhaus/GettyImages Pochettino publicly (and correctly) called out Mykhailo Mudryk recently by admitting the Ukraine international has not been good enough to justify regular starts....

Chelsea captain Reece James appears to have returned to some level of training ahead of a crunch west vs north London derby against Arsenal at the weekend. James has only made one appearance since being appointed new Blues skipper this season, having missed the last nine Game s across all com Pet itions with a hamstring injury. The 23-year-old also picked up a suspension while he was sidelined for directing abusive language towards a match official during a confrontation in the tunnel following Chelsea's Premier League defeat to Aston Villa last month. That ban has already been served. It had been reported this week that James had suffered a setback on his road to recovery and had retreated to individual training instead. But Chelsea shared on social media a picture of the player in training gear, smiling, with the caption: "Out on the grass." James himself also shared a version of the same picture alongside the message: "Against all odds." Out on the grass. 🤝...