Chelsea schedule meeting to decide Mauricio Pochettino’s future | Football

It has been a difficult first season in charge of the Blues for Pochettino, losing 11 Premier League games so far and sitting seventh in the table.

The Argentinian has had a lot of injuries to deal with, while he is also trying to create a successful team from a quickly-assembled squad of youngsters at vast expense.

However, such are the expectations at Chelsea that his job is under threat as they will finish the season without any silverware and potentially without European football next season.

There have been good signs recently, though, beating Tottenham 2-0 and West Ham 5-0 in their last two outings.

The Blues chiefs do not want a summer of uncertainty ahead and will make a decision as quickly as possibly after conducting the review.

Chairman Boehly has been impressed with recent performances, so Pochettino will be hopeful of keeping hold of his job if he can keep up those displays.

‘We’ve seen the last two and a half games, at least in the second half at Aston Villa and Tottenham and West Ham where we played just beautiful football,’ said Boehly, via The Athletic.

‘It was so fluid, it was exactly the way we drew it up, when we came out of the back, built up and we moved up the pitch, very organised and the number of shots we had on board. In those two and a half games, you could really start to see what we were working on coming together.

‘Even the commentary has changed over the last two and a half games. I’ve never seen anything change so quickly.’

Pochettino has another year left on his contract, with the club holding an option to extend it by a further 12 months.

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