Ex-Chelsea captain Desailly warns Blues: Potential doesn't win games

Chelsea legend Marcel Desailly is critical of the club's transfer policy in the past couple of windows.

The Blues are in 11th place in the Premier League, as they prepare to take on leaders Tottenham on Monday.

While the Stamford Bridge club can narrow the gap to Spurs with a win, Desailly admits they should be doing better considering the money they have spent.

Desailly stated, per Get French Football News: So it's very hard to criticize.

The only thing that I'd say though is that it is an error of communication. They are carried away by the potential that each player that they've bought has, because they've forgotten about one element, knowing that to play football at the highest level.

To attain what we call in French la culture de la gagne, the winning mentality, you need experience nascent talent is never enough to presume immediate performance. And that's the only thing where I'd say they've made a mistake, where they keep thinking, with the coach Pochettino, 'no, this year we'll be title challengers with the team that we have'.

Right from the start of the season, you could see that they can't be title challengers, it was obvious. But they have put together players of great potential and have positioned themselves in terms of business, because if they didn't buy the players now for a little above value, they wouldn't have been able to buy them later."