Chelsea legend Frank Lampard has questioned the squad he inherited as interim boss last season.
Lampard was brought in after Graham Potter's sacking, with Thomas Tuchel losing his job in the same campaign.
While they have spent a lot of money since, the Blues are still midtable under Mauricio Pochettino this term.
Speaking to the Unfiltered podcast, he said: I said it quite a lot when I was there, and people threw it back at me. I was like, 'Standards have not been good enough here'. You have to have a level of standards to be a top club.
Forget about the tactics of the layer on top; things below have to be right to perform, and I didn't see it there. Now, I think in the summer, to be fair, players moved on, some rightfully so for them and for the club, and new players came in.
So, I think that probably would have freshened up the feel in pre-season for the new manager... But in my opinion, it was going to be a challenge again to keep moving forward quickly like people would expect, and that's proven to be the case."
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