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After a damaging defeat to Nottingham Forest in the Premier League on Monday, Jamie Carragher described Chelsea as ‘a broken club’. Here, Sky Sports News’ chief reporter Kaveh Solhekol breaks down the issues at Stamford Bridge this season – and how they fix them…<\/p>\n

Chelsea have been all at sea since Enzo Maresco was allowed to leave the club on New Year’s Eve. They took a massive risk by appointing Liam Rosenior, somebody who had no experience of managing in the Premier League, as their head coach. That didn’t work out.<\/p>\n

Then they took another big risk in appointing Calum McFarlane as the interim head coach. Again, somebody who has very limited experience of managing, let alone managing in the Premier League.<\/p>\n

Things have been so bad at Chelsea since the start of February that they are bottom of the Premier League form table – they have got fewer points in that time than Tottenham.<\/p>\n

Chelsea have won two and drawn two in the Premier League in that time. The only sides they have beaten in the Premier League since the start of February have been against releagted Wolves and Aston Villa.<\/p>\n

In total, Chelsea have lost 13 times in the Premier League this season, which is more than newly-promoted Leeds and Sunderland.<\/p>\n

You can say it’s the players’ fault, but watching Chelsea week in, week out, it looks like these players have not come to terms with the fact that Maresca has left the club.<\/p>\n

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Maresca was somebody who got them into the Champions League, won two trophies in his first season, but behind the scenes, things went wrong.<\/p>\n

There were problems with personal relationships with other people at the club, lots of people falling out and it got so bad that he walked out.<\/p>\n

I think Chelsea were quite glad to see the back of him, but looking back now, it was a big mistake to let him go because he was definitely onto something and the players believed in him.<\/p>\n

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