After last year's poor ranking, fans of course expected better performance this year, but we saw that Chelsea started to lose blood when they started to send some important players from the team at the beginning of the year. Their places could not be easily filled. They seem to be missing a striker and are having great trouble scoring goals. They will have to deal with this problem.
It is difficult to know what caused Chelsea to be where they are now, even though they have spent a lot of money buying players and in the Premier League Chelsea is one of the clubs that spends the most money buying players. If you look at their performance in the English league, it is very disappointing and Chelsea only experienced one win in the English league when they faced Luton Town, the rest were draws and defeats.
It seems there are several problems that make Chelsea performance so poor. First, the transition to change ownership to Todd Boehly has changed the club principles. Even though Boehly is not stingy with money, maybe even a little more profligate than Roman Abramovich, his ideas are different and his philosophy is different. Second, Chelsea is bringing in too many young players. As a measure of competency in the Premier League, clubs need experienced players to be able to perform optimally and be able to compete to win the title. Third, the absence of veteran players at the club makes it difficult for young players to find role models. From a technical perspective, they also don't understand each other. However, if you look at the individual quality of Chelsea young players, they are not that bad. However, the chemistry has not yet been achieved.