Former Liverpool player and manager Greame Souness has given an eviscerating assessment of Chelsea.
The Sky Sports pundit was less than impressed by what he saw from the Blues over the weekend.
Chelsea were beaten 4-2 at home by Wolves in the Premier League, leaving them in 12th spot.
Chelsea are in trouble. Since the ownership change, it's been a downward spiral," Souness told the White and Jordan show.
Let's go back to the beginning, when the takeover happened, whether they walked out en masse or whether they couldn't be persuaded to stay but the footballing people at the club, [director] Marina [Granovskaia] Bruce Buck, Peter Cech, they had a handle on footballing matters. They go for whatever reason.
If you're the new guy coming in you want to keep your main men in position in a business you don't fully understand, an American coming in to buy a soccer club, so you would have kept your football people close to you to get a handle on it and then make your mind going forward if you were going to try and keep them or not. If they walked out en masse and didn't want to stay, that's a whole different thing.
But it still boils down to what I'm about to say. They don't listen to the right people. You've got Todd Boehly who comes in and announces he is the interim director of football [sporting director]. I'm sorry. It's like asking Alex Ferguson to go to the LA Dodgers and build up baseball team. It's just impossible.
The damage is done. They've spent way, way too much money on good players, not top, top players They've got a couple of young midfield players that may be good enough for them one day. They have spent over 100 million on both of them. I was sitting down last week watching the Liverpool game and as an old midfield player, that's the first place I would look.
I'm thinking, 'I've not really seen these guys [Moises] Caceido and [Enzo] Fernandez'. I'm saying 'Come on' because I know Liverpool is a very difficult place for anyone to go and play. They're going to be put under pressure every minute of the game. 'Let's see how they deal with it'. Didn't turn up.
I'm not just blaming everything on those two but I think it's been a succession of buying players for the sake of buying players. I think there's a couple of players they bought believing that maybe Man City or Liverpool were interested in them. They weren't buying them because they were the No 1 targets from 6-9 months, a year ago. They have gone out and spent money for the sake of spending money and they've made a pig's ear of it.
I'll finish on this, they listen to the wrong people, whoever is advising them on football matters, they have given a masterclass on how not to do it. That's Chelsea right now."