Ever since Roman Abramovichs name was detached from this brand thanks to the Russia-Ukraine war, this team has never been the same !! At this point it gets me to think current owners are all about the money or they totally have no love for football one bit !! Pretty much Something similar with what happened to Leicester after previous owner passed and successor came with a different vision which saw the foxes performance tank and got booted out of the Premier league...and hope the Blues don't go down this road
They are attempting to transition the club from buying to producing in the long term, but the early signals are not promising. The vision is sound, but the implementation is flawed. We could have spent £1B on Mbappe, Neymar, Osimhem, and some top creative midfielders and experienced defenders to return the side to the top four, but instead we went for some random Brazilian and British youth players.
To be fair, Arsenal were so stingy back then and didn't spend so much like Chelsea spend these days. I am at a point when Chelsea sign a star striker or playmaker and inside me, I know he's going to flop
Have you noticed how you have even already forgot how go Nkunku was before he set his feet on Chelsea? He left RB Leipzig at the top level. At 25, he should be getting closer to or hitting his prime, but... it's Todd Boehly's Chelsea!
I've already convinced myself that no striker will ever replace Drogba and Costa, and that everyone who joins our project dies. We had a very strong preseason performance with four at the back, so I'm not sure why Chilwell is playing at LW when we have good natural LW players on the bench. POCH OUT.
Problem is those young players costed more then proven players would have costed. When we are talking about young teams that is usually a combination of own players grown trough academy plus several relatively cheap signings from countries like Netherlands and Portugal, you know what I am talking about.
We won the 2020 CL with this style, but what we have now is strange to me.
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