Chelsea winning trophies will not come as soon as many have expected. Pochettino is building Chelsea from scratch with new players. Much shouldn't be expected from him. It will take years before we can see Chelsea comfortably lift a trophy. The least we can expect them to do at this season and the upcoming season is to fall between the top position of 3rd to 7th position of the premier league table.
Yep, it is not the right time to expect Chelsea competing for the trophy. I'm sure people only expect Chelsea to return to the top 5 of EPL standings. But, it looks like quite difficult for Chelsea because their squad isn't ready to compete with other teams which have more established squad. It is true that Chelsea has many new players, they need time to adapt with many things. We actually must understand if they are still difficult to give good performance, the new players won't suddenly play with their best only in few matches. However, TBH I'm also a bit surprising that Chelsea could be defeated by West Ham and Nottm Forest. Even if Chelsea dominated by many new players, their squad is much better than those teams.
Well, we really can't expect any increase in performance from the Chelsea club in the near future. But still, with the existing squad they should be able to play better. Although overall Chelsea played well. But their line of attack is really blunt. I think Pochettino lacks a striker hungry for goals. So I feel that the strikers that Chelsea had last season were much better. But then again it's still early in the season. It is possible that starting next week Chelsea will suddenly show good performance like in the pre-season. Well they have been very good in pre-season.