Confident yet lacking consistency, title challenge remains outside Chelsea's reach 

FEELING DIFFERENT: Chelsea manager Enzo Maresca. Pic: Bradley Collyer/PA Wire.

Chelsea have come into the previous three seasons with an air of uncertainty around the club following the takeover by Todd Boehly and Clearlake capital in May of 2022, but this time things feel different.

The Blues have been in project mode for several years now, and it seemed there was no end in sight, until Enzo Maresca showed up in west London.