Mauricio Pochettino has been accused of playing certain Chelsea players out of position this season.

Some pundits have blamed Pochettino for not playing Levi Colwill and Enzo Fernandez in their best positions.

More recently, Gab Marcotti accused Pochettino of playing Cole Palmer out of position as well, despite the impact the 21-year-old has had.

And now, William Gallas has claimed that Pochettino is also playing Conor Gallagher out of position.

Gallagher has featured in three different roles for Chelsea this term – 19 times in attacking midfield, 15 in central midfield and four in defensive midfield.

Speaking ahead of Chelsea’s game with Manchester United on Thursday night, Gallas has sent a message to Pochettino over how to get the most out of Conor Gallagher.

“Gallagher has different qualities, and you have to put players around him who can make the difference,” Gallas told Gambling Zone.

“He’s not a playmaker, he’s a ball-winning-midfielder, physically he can run a lot and press very high.

“This means that around him, you need players with different qualities, like a playmaker who can play very quickly between the lines, giving good assists.

“Gallagher doesn’t do that and that’s why it doesn’t work for Chelsea with him in that position.

“It looks like the three players, Gallagher, [Moises] Caicedo and Enzo [Fernandez], don’t really match each other.

“That is a problem, so it shows how, at board level, they don’t really have any vision and they just buy players for the sake of buying players.

“You don’t buy players like this, when you buy players you have to know if he’s going to fit into the squad and if it’s going to be a good match for the other players. This problem shows that the board didn’t have a strategy.”