Graeme Souness has warned Chelsea boss Mauricio Pochettino that he faces a ‘very difficult job’ at Stamford Bridge.

“It’s a very difficult job for the manager at Chelsea this year,” Souness said as quoted by Metro.

“I look at that club, and the direction they’ve gone – it just seems to be a mismatch of players that were available and very expensive.

“Chelsea was paying a premium, because of their reputation and standards. I don’t see them doing any different than they did last year.

“It’s going to be very difficult, if you’ve got someone of Thiago Silva’s age, to think you’re going to get him to be a top performer every week on the pitch. That won’t happen – he will have his issues at his age – injuries, strains and pulls.

“That’s an obvious area they need to strengthen in – if you’re leaking goals, the confidence is zapped from your team, and it impacts everyone.

“If you’ve got a striker that scores goals, like Harry Kane at Spurs, he has won them many games over the years. That confidence retains itself around the group. For Chelsea to be conceding goals has the opposite effect – their confidence will be doing away.

“For Levi Colwill to come into the Chelsea team at 20 years old, to be a consistent performer at that level, is a big shout.

“My experience of football is that if there’s one area of the pitch you want experience in, it’s at centre-back. If you’re out there as a full-back and you make a mistake, the centre-back can come over and cover.

“If you make a mistake at centre-back, it generally leads to an effort on your goal. It’s the one area in the team where you need experience.”