Discipline and player trading strategy - fans on what must change this summer

We asked for your views on what one thing needs to change at Chelsea before the new campaign and why.

Here are some of your comments:

Scott: Very simply I think what needs to change most at Chelsea is discipline around the club. Player power, bad attitudes, red cards, 'I'm bigger than the club' - all this nonsense has to stop.

Adam: Delap gone for a start, along with the two left wingers we have. Penders to start, and sadly, we are in a position after spending billions that half the squad still needs improving.

Kazuki: Management needs to continue showing that they are learning from their mistakes. Signing Alonso was a great step in the right direction, but if they do not sign an experienced player whom Alonso wishes to sign and sign another young winger instead, then that might mean we may need to get ready for another frustrating season. As long as management learns, then it'd be far better than replacing them. We know that from the Abramovich era.

Steve: As a long-time supporter, I honestly don't know what "the plan" is and what the steps and relevant timetable is. I feel so distant from the club I have known for nearly all my life. We have a stadium that is below optimum capacity for the Premier League and where I sit in the East Stand is over 50 years old and it feels it. There is some grand talk but no detail. Just tell us what your intentions are and stop treating us like strangers.

David: I'd like us to begin acting like a competitive football club again rather than as a player-trading business. The owners need to understand and embrace our footballing culture and stop thinking they know better than other US owners who own Premier League clubs. A big part of it is that they have to stop interfering. Bring in top execs and let them run the club, just as Man City, Liverpool and Arsenal have. Immediate steps by August would include the hiring of a top sporting director to work alongside Alonso, a major reduction in the huge number of players on the books and, using the fees generated to sign two or three very competitive, experienced players in their late 20s. We have to start to change the culture of the club this summer because if we don't I really fear for the future of the club.