If Chelsea lose their next two games, according to TalkSPORT commentator Andy Goldstein, manager Mauricio Pochettino could be fired.

At the weekend, Chelsea suffered their third loss in six games, this time to Aston Villa by a score of 1-0. The Blues are now in the 14th position, nine points behind fourth-place Tottenham and four points clear of 18th-place Luton.

Goldstein believes the club may decide to fire the Argentine if Chelsea loses their next two games against Fulham and Burnley, despite Pochettino’s pleading with the Chelsea board for patience and his insistence that he is overseeing a process at Stamford Bridge.

The Chelsea team doesn’t look like a Chelsea team, Goldstein observed. It has no backbone at all. There is a goal-scoring drought. Three of their five goals this season have come against Luton. Six years and about €300 million later, they still haven’t found a striker who can consistently score goals for them. I’m aware that they have ιnjury problems, but so do all teams. In six games, Nicolas Jackson has scored once. Is the business owner, Todd Boehly, at blame in any way? My curiosity stems from the fact that since his arrival, he has splashed out over a billiоn dollars on players despite having no prior experience in English football. Despite spending a fortune on a wide variety of players, many of whom were unnecessary, the team’s lack of a true goal scorer has not been addressed.

His next point was as follows: “When you look at the teams they’ve got coming up (to play), Fulham away, Burnley away, Arsenal at home, Brentford at home, Spurs away, City at home, Newcastle away, Brighton at home, Manchester United away. Those are challenging games to play while you’re having trouble. The two that follow. If they don’t beаt Fulham and Burnley, he might be gone, in my opinion.

On Wednesday, the Blues will play Brighton in the Carabao Cup before returning to league play with a match against Fulham on Saturday.