Arsenal legend Ian Wright has voiced concerns over the absence of progress at Chelsea, despite the club’s substantial investment in players and efforts to instigate changes under new ownership.

Chelsea’s expenditure, surpassing £1 billion on transfer and loan fees since Todd Boehly assumed ownership last year, has failed to yield discernible improvements, according to Wright.

The recent signing of Cole Palmer from Manchester City on transfer deadline day pushed Chelsea past the £1 billion mark. 

However, the club’s performance has remained inconsistent, with last season’s bottom-half Premier League finish and their current 11th-place standing raising questions about the effectiveness of managerial changes.

Following consecutive defeats in which Chelsea conceded 8 goals – a 4-0 loss to Liverpool and a 4-2 defeat to Wolves – Wright, a Premier League icon, criticized the team’s lack of organization defensively and the disjointedness evident across midfield and attack.

Wright emphasized his observation that neither the structural nor individual aspects of the club seem to be improving, labeling the situation at Chelsea as “quite dire.”

“Chelsea are not organized at the back. The midfield, they are all over the place, up front, we see Jackson came on, he had another chance, he couldn’t take it,” Wright remarked on Premier League Productions.

“It just seems to me like a place no one is improving. Nothing is improving whether it is structurally or individually, nothing is improving at Chelsea. It seems quite dire to me.”