Following Chelsea’s embarrassing display in the 3-1 defeat to Arsenal on Tuesday night, former Chelsea captain Frank Leboeuf has admitted he feels so ashamed of Chelsea.

Leboeuf said as quoted by Chels HQ: “Until I hear from Mauricio Pochettino what he’s going to do [with this squad], I don’t believe any manager can solve this problem. The leadership we used to have [at Chelsea] is no longer there. That’s the main problem.

“You know Chelsea have no leaders. You know they all go into the dressing room at half-time and just drop their heads, ‘Hopefully the coach doesn’t talk to me because I don’t want to be caught’.

“The team I met when I came to Chelsea, with all those leaders, we would never do that. Impossible. We were such leaders, we had so much character, so much pride — it would have never happened. That’s why I’m so ashamed, so upset.

“I was amazed by the number of Chelsea fans in the stands. They have so much belief in their club, but they forget the team doesn’t deserve to wear the shirt. I’m so upset and so ashamed of what I’m seeing.

“I have followed Chelsea since 1996, when I signed for the club, and after [my career] I kept on following them. I’ve never seen anything like that in my life. It’s awful, it’s disgraceful.

“Shameful, disgraceful, pitiful. I don’t know if the players understand what they are doing right now. On top of dirtying the image of the club, they are dirtying their own image. What they are showing is the worst in the world of football.

“You can be bad, everybody can be bad, everyone has been bad — that can happen. But when you show no character, no commitment in what you are trying to do, it shows that you are unprofessional.

“The players have shown to the world that they don’t deserve the Chelsea shirt. I make a difference between club and team. The club is a big club. The team is a shambles, a shame of that club. I wanted to turn off the TV, I was that ashamed.”