Chelsea owners Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital have been warned Chelsea won’t improve under Graham Potter following Saturday’s embarrassing 1-0 defeat to Southampton at Stamford Bridge.

“I don’t see this stopping, I don’t,” Merson told Sky Sports when analysing Chelsea’s latest defeat.

“They’re bought a lorry load of individuals, I’m afraid. They’ve not bought anybody for the team, it’s all dribblers.

“Forget Enzo Fernandez, he’s a top player, he’s a holding midfield player but the others… Mount played today and he got eaten up.

“People were dribbling, there were no phases of the game, it’s only when [Kai] Havertz came on and he started playing with [Joao] Felix and [Raheem] Sterling that there were passages of play.

“But I don’t see this stopping. I think this is a massive, massive, massive interview now coming up for Graham Potter. Chelsea fans will be fuming, they won’t want to come for this, ‘oh Southampton have got a new manager so that helped them’.

“If you don’t beat Southampton at home their goalkeeper should be the best player on the pitch and he wasn’t the best player on the pitch.”