They must be jumping up and down with delight in the Chelsea boardroom at the moment as they find their side second in the Premier League table. Disregard all the chat coming out of the club that they don’t see themselves as potential champions. Privately they will be thinking, ‘If Liverpool slip up, then we have a great chance’. It would be wrong of them to think otherwise.
I have been critical of Chelsea because of their scattergun approach to recruitment and the fact several of the players they have bought will not be good enough in the long run to challenge for the two big trophies that really matter: the Premier League and the Champions League.