Chelsea’s Season Analysed – Ex-Assistant Coach Gives Honest Verdict

Chelsea enjoyed an impressive end to the 2024/25 season, claiming fourth place and qualification to the Champions League, while winning the Europa Conference League, defeating Real Betis 4-1 in the final. Hopes were high among Chelsea fans for the 2025/26 season, and it’s been an inconsistent start. Former Chelsea assistant manager Jody Morris has spoken to Boxing Social, revealing his honest thoughts on the Blues’ start to the 2025/26 season.

Ex-Chelsea Assistant Jody Morris Weighs in on Chelsea’s Start to the 2025/26 Season

Morris Assesses Chelsea’s Campaign

Speaking to Boxing Social, the former Chelsea assistant was honest on the club’s start to this season and their success at the end of the 2024/25 campaign:

“Yeah, we’ve been poor, to be brutally honest. I think the expectations level rightly went up because of what the manager and the players achieved last season.

Praising the club for their Club World Cup win and appraising the start to this season, Morris said:

“And then our performance in the Club World Cup, particularly the final, probably the best performance I’ve seen in a final from a Chelsea team. Was outstanding. So, rightly so, the expectation levels have gone up. And if we’re being honest, I don’t think we’ve played that well at all this season.

“I thought we were really good against Bayern in the first half. Obviously playing against West Ham and doing what we done to them. But this is a team that had to change their manager. They’ve been that bad. i thought we was poor against Palace, not great. Got lucky against Fulham, Brentford, although we was, I think, harshly done by with the goal that I felt was offside as the equalizer, I still didn’t think we played well against Brentford. Lincoln, we was poor.” 

Morris on Chelsea’s Recent Performances and Victory Against Benfica

Assessing Chelsea’s early-season form, Morris said:

“I was at the Man United game. Obviously, the early sending off, poor. and then the game the other day I was at, where I actually felt we started well. We’re just not managing that. Our in-game decisions and now game management has been really poor. Whether that be the players that are just obviously having off days, it hasn’t been great. But in fairness, at the moment, I think one of the pluses is that we could actually be a lot worse off points wise in the league.

And, we did get a win the other day, which was obviously very much needed against Benfica.”

“I’m disappointed with our quality because, like I said, we had such high hopes after the demolition job we’ve done on PSG, where I thought the manager was outstanding with his tactics. Thought the players carried him out to a T. And we’re all as Chelsea fans, we’re all excited, thinking, right, let’s get a real good start to the season. 

“And at the moment it hasn’t quite happened. So, hopefully, the win against Benfica can be a little bit of a springboard for us,” said Morris.