Stan Collymore says Alejandro Garnacho is the best winger he has watched live this season and believes Chelsea can challenge Arsenal for the Premier League title next season.

Chelsea bounced back from their 2-1 defeat at Arsenal last Sunday with a 4-1 win away to Aston Villa on Wednesday night.

Joao Pedro scored a hat-trick, while Cole Palmer also found the net in an impressive victory for Liam Rosenior’s side at Villa Park.

Former Liverpool and England striker Collymore, who is a boyhood Villa supporter, hailed Chelsea’s performance against Unai Emery’s side as the best display he has seen ‘in quite a number of years’ at Villa Park.

‘In terms of Chelsea, I genuinely think they’re purchasing of all of these players was scattergun and madness but they had the money and the policy was very simple – let’s buy the very best young players, in some cases on the planet,’ Collymore told talkSPORT.

‘Now was it always going to be the case that it took two, three, four years to get up to speed? Not necessarily, some teams hit the ground very, very quickly.

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