Joe Cole and Owen Hargreaves agree on Chelsea transfer priority

Chelsea have one of, if not the largest squad in the Premier League and Todd Boehly has been urged to streamline the roster in the summer

Joe Cole and Owen Hargreaves have warned Todd Boehly that he has a 'big job' on his hands in the summer. Chelsea spent over £300million in the January transfer window, completing deals for eight players.

The former Blues midfielder said: "Football’s hard to pick a team but what you have to remember in football is it’s the only job in the world where you sack people on a Friday and you have to re-employ them on a Monday.

"You effectively have to say to 12 lads there, 'thanks guys, have a great weekend, we’re back at it on Monday'. It’s really hard to take when you’re a professional.

"But when you’re an elite professional like what these guys are, that’s why it’s often better to have a squad where you’re littered with a few youngsters, players coming down who are happy to play 20, 25 [games]. Chelsea have got a big job in the summer balancing this up."

Singing from the same hymn sheet, Hargreaves encouraged Boehly to follow the template which Arsenal have found so successful in recent times. The former Manchester United midfielder said: "I don’t think this is Graham’s problem, by the way, this is the club’s.

"If you look at Arsenal you know who is going to play pretty much every game, City, Liverpool, United, you know who’s going to be in that starting XI, give or take one or two.

"Graham has inherited a group of players and even for him it is going to take time to find out what is his core. What is his core, and then whoever is not going to be in there they have to sell them in the summer."