Pochettino has no issue with club owners coming into Chelsea dressing room after games

Chelsea manager Mauricio Pochettino has insisted he has no problem with the club's owners coming into the team dressing room after matches.

Reports at the weekend suggested that co-owner Behdad Eghbali visited the dressing room at Stamford Bridge following Chelsea's disappointing home defeat against Aston Villa.

Chelsea have now won just one of their opening six Premier League games and find themselves 14th in the table, coming on the back of last season's 12th-place finish.

It is estimated that the club have spent £1 billion on players in three transfer windows since Todd Boehly took charge of the club in May 2022, although they did recoup around £230 million in sales during the summer.

Pochettino only became manager on May 29 and has overseen a huge turnover in players as well as suffering a number of key injuries, including new £52 million striker Christopher Nkunku – who will be a long-term absentee – and captain Reece James.

After the defeat against Villa, the Argentine coach asked for time to turn around the club's fortunes. “They [the owners] are disappointed, they arrived at the club and are so excited to build a project,” he said on Sunday. “Of course they feel disappointed but at the same time they need to support the plan.”

But whatever the teething problems Pochettino is experiencing, the fact that the owners are dropping in to see the players after games is not one of them – a point he wanted to make clear in Tuesday's press conference ahead of their League Cup third-round match at home to Brighton.

Chelsea co-wners Todd Boehly, left and Behdad Eghbali, right, after signing Raheem Sterling the summer of 2022. Getty

“I like when the owner comes [into the dressing room]. In all my career as a coach – at