Enzo Maresca has clarified once and for all that Chelsea's target is to qualify for the Champions League this season – and he called a Cobham-wide meeting with more than 100 employees including his players to make sure nobody inside the training ground is thinking otherwise.
The Blues are currently sixth in the Premier League as they travel to Aston Villa on Saturday and know that the positions for Europe's elite competition are likely to go to fifth.
After muddled messaging previously left Chelsea's supporters confused as to their ambitions this term, Maresca outlined: 'We spent almost all of our season in the top four.