Mauricio Pochettino has warned that he has taken the Chelsea job to turn a floundering side into 'animals' who win - which won't come as a surprise to anyone at Newcastle United.
Chelsea finished a whopping 27 points behind Newcastle in 12th place last season, but Eddie Howe has already predicted that the Blues will be a 'big threat' this time around. Not only following Pochettino's arrival, but also, because so many of the club's mid-season arrivals now have experience of playing in the Premier League.
Howe had Chelsea very much in mind when the Newcastle boss said his side had to 'improve quickly' because other clubs that 'maybe didn't have the seasons they want will come back fighting'. Pochettino, clearly, is not about to settle for anything less.
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"The objective is to win because football is about winning," the new Chelsea boss told the club's website. "We will have good times, create good relationships, have a nice environment and relationship with people, but the most important thing in the end is to win.
"If you win, it helps develop all the other things. Football is about results, how you achieve that is different because we are people that care about the way we achieve the results.
"But in the end, we want to win, be competitive, be animals that want to compete every week and in every game. But we need to translate before on the training ground and to train in this way. We need to be really tough to try to create that mentality and the feeling that we can beat anyone."
