With Mauricio Pochettino craving a trophy at Chelsea, winning the Carabao Cup could quickly backfire.

The Blues look set to miss out on European football due to their league form, with worrying back-to-back defeats pushing them down into the bottom half of the Premier League table.

A 4-1 defeat away to Liverpool was followed by a humbling 4-2 loss to Wolves at Stamford Bridge.

That saw the Blues fans turn against Pochettino and owner Todd Boehly, the latter of which has had an immediate fall from grace despite giving fans what they wanted in the transfer market.

The American businessman has injected over £1billion into the club just on transfer fees since his takeover in May 2022, and that could become an issue with success at Wembley.

Should Chelsea beat Liverpool on February 25, live on talkSPORT, they would automatically qualify for Europe’s third-tier competition, the Europa Conference League.

With the prize money for winning the competition just £15million, that could leave the club in plenty of trouble.

As per the Daily Mirror, UEFA’s Financial Fair Play rules restrict the transfer spending of its participating clubs to a maximum of 80 per cent of their revenue.

Chelsea’s annual income is expected to fall below the £450m mark, and they’re already spending a whopping £360m on player salaries.

Even with the competition’s winnings, that would restrict their spending to just £10m for the proceeding transfer windows.