finished 12 last season, which is unacceptable for what has happened in recent decades for chelsea. on top of that, there is no european football, notjust on the champions league, not any european football whatsoever, which is astonishing. so, it is almost a year go on, starting from something completely different. and it is difficult to know what will happen. chelsea, for me, could end up fourth or 15th this season. i still cannot tell you. alex has already touched upon the influence pochettino has had in pre season. do you think that the board will give him a lot more backing, and maybe even a lot more time, given the scale of the overhaul, compared to his predecessor? i m one of those people who thinks it is important to give the manager a good amount of time to turn things around, especially if it is a gigantic project, which, changing chelsea to what it was before the sanctions, back to around this year, it is a completely different project. to change that in the time that gail po