Chelsea legend, Gianfranco Zola, believes the exit of Kai Havertz, Jorginho and Mateo Kovacic affected the Blues performance last season.
Recall that Chelsea sold Kai Havertz and Jorginho to Aresenal. While Kovacic was sold to Manchester City.
However, in a chat with Ladbrokes, Zola stated that the sale of experience players had a big effect on the team.
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“Chelsea have had a hard season especially at the beginning, but they changed a lot.
“They put a lot of young players in place, and lost a lot of experienced ones like Jorginho, Havertz, and Kovacic. They lost many players who were the soul of the team, the leaders, so it took time to get going.
“But finally Pochettino got it working and it was working quite well. It was very surprising to see him leaving and I don’t know the full reasons but obviously from a supporter point of view I am disappointed.”
