Things continue to go from bad to worse for Chelsea, with the Londoners slipping further down the Premier League with every passing week.
After a poor start to the season under Thomas Tuchel, the German was sacked in favour of young English coach Graham Potter. After an even poorer run of form after the winter World Cup, Potter was sacked and ex-Chelsea boss Frank Lampard returned as interim boss.
Their form has now hit a shocking low, with the club losing every single game since Lampard was appointed manager in early April - a run that has seen them fall to 12th in the Premier League table and crash out of the Champions League.
An overcrowded squad of players is the result of a sequence of transfer windows in which American owner Todd Boehly has spent over €600 million on new signings, and its hard to say that any of those signings have been a quantifiable success, other than Argentinean Enzo Fernandez.
After Chelsea's 3-1 defeat at the Emirates on Tuesday night, World Cup winner Emmanuel Petit spoke to Premier League productions about the issues at the club. He revealed that, during the match, Chelsea players could be seen arguing with each other on the bench, and that "the best manager" could not be expected to solve their current problems.
Emmanuel Petit was "shocked" by scenes from Chelsea bench
It's hard to fathom how Chelsea have ended up in this scenario, given that they won the Champions League not two years ago. Many of the players who starred in that run are still present at the club - but they have been joined by over a dozen big-money signings, with the revolving door at Stamford Bridge put into overdrive in recent years.
Speaking from the Emirates on Tuesday, former Arsenal and Chelsea midfielder Emmanuel Petit said that the amount of players at the club was a major issue, and that the substitutes for the clash with Arsenal could be seen openly arguing with each other throughout the second half:
I was quite close to the Chelsea bench and I saw some of the players having arguments between them, in the second half especially.
I was very shocked in the first half by the attitude of the players - the body language, no response, no pride, no unity, no friendship.
I was thinking you could put 20 managers on the bench and it wouldn't change anything at the moment. They need to clear things in the dressing room first - then think about the manager afterwards.
You can put the best manager on the bench now, and he doesn't get the right answer. There are too many players.
It's hard to see any improvement in Chelsea's form between now and the end of the season, with Lampard's side still yet to face Manchester City, Newcastle, and Manchester United.
They remain likely to finish closer to the relegation zones than to the European places, and it will take a major job from whoever is in charge next season to bring the club back to their expected position.
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