Chelsea defender Ben Chilwell has admitted that everyone at the club is focused on catching Liverpool and Manchester City in the Premier League.
The Blues finished "best of the rest" behind the top two, who were in a league of their own for much of last season.
Under new ownership this summer, Chelsea are hoping to make significant signings, and are close to officially announcing Manchester City winger Raheem Sterling.
"City and Liverpool have set the bar, for maybe the last five years, which every other team in the league is aspiring to get at," Chilwell told football.london.
"Being a Chelsea player, I'd say we're the closest to them, and we're aspiring to get on the same level as them. We showed in patches last season that we could compete with them, but it's that consistency that they've shown — they're not just one-season wonders. They've done it season-in, season-out for the last five years.
"That's where we're trying to get to. We've had conversations in the dressing room, as players and with the staff, that consistency is the thing that we now need to [achieve]. We've got the talent in the team; we showed that in the Champions League two years ago.
"We showed it in the first half of the season last year too. We were top, we beat Juventus 4-0 in the Champions League. So we've shown we've got the talent in the team. We just need to now have that consistency that Liverpool and City have got."
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