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Sky Sports pundit, Paul Merson has backed Mauricio Pochettino to succeed at Chelsea if given more time.

Merson made this known when speaking in his latest column for the outlet.

According to him, the coach isn’t the problem, but the absence of a proper striker is. He also argued that there isn’t any good manager that is available for hire at the moment.

Merson wrote: “Mauricio Pochettino deserves time. He is a good manager but it doesn’t matter how good you are as a coach if you don’t have the players.

“You have to have good players at the same time as being a good coach. It’s as simple as that. Pep Guardiola isn’t taking Rochdale through the leagues to win the Premier League.

“You don’t become a bad manager overnight. You just need good players, and you need them fit. At the moment, Pochettino doesn’t have good players all over the pitch. That’s the problem.

“And who are Chelsea going to go and get if they replace Pochettino? Managers don’t grow on trees. He is a very good manager but you can’t get away from the fact that good managers need good players.

“People can say they have because of the money they’ve spent, but it’s not true. They haven’t got a centre forward. They’ve spent a billion and haven’t got a striker. They created so many chances again on Sunday which they could not take.

“Everyone can point to Christopher Nkunku coming back but he’s not an out-and-out centre forward.”