Chelsea have spent £1bn to get worse; Winstanley and Stewart should be sacked
Chelsea are like an extraordinary experiment; how much can they spend and still get worse? Heads should be rolling for this.
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Chelsea have spent £1bn to get worse; it’s extraordinary
I was genuinely baffled by the amount of fans, journalists, and pundits that had Chelsea finishing top four this season. Right now there are at least eight teams better than us in the league (for my tuppence, City, Arsenal, Brighton, Newcastle, Brentford, Villa, Liverpool and Utd).
At the begging of the season I had Chelsea finishing 9th, which would be an improvement over last year. The only problem is the club have spent £330 million this summer. £330 million. On top of the £600 million last year. And yet Chelsea are far worse than they were just two seasons ago.
How do you spend that much money and get worse?!! It’s unbelievable. Fans were hailing Paul Winstanley and Laurence Stewart after signing Caicedo and Lavia. After the money they’ve spent the state of the squad they should be sacked!
Look at the current Chelsea squad and tell me what quality that money has bought. A midfield consisting of inexperienced kids and now 3 DMs all bought in the same window. How much do you think Ugochukwu will play now with Lavia and Caicedo in front of him? 3rd choice who’ll probably go on loan and be forgotten about. He cost £23 million. Did you know Chelsea even signed him?
Sanchez, brought in for £25M when Raya was apparently available for £30M (granted I wouldn’t want to sign for this shower over Arsenal right now).
This all smacks of incompetence from top to bottom throughout the club. No transfer policy except – ‘are they young and can we over pay for them?’.
Sold off all the experienced midfielders, sold off Hall to Newcastle who would have been a solid back up for Chilwell who we know will get injured at some point. It’s OK though, Cucurella is there, he only cost £55M. Let’s not get started on Mudryk.
To spend £1,000,000,000 on football players and making the team progressively worse, while bringing in a world class manager is nothing short of staggering. This will be an example taught in business schools for decades to come.
I said last year that I didn’t recognise this club anymore, and things have only worsened. Right now the only difference between Chelsea and Everton is that Chelsea have wasted more money.
I can only come to the conclusion that the ownership are actively trying to harm the club from the inside out. It’s that or criminal incompetence.
Will CFC (Todd Boehly and the rest of the owners and get F**ked)
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…I’ve just read that Chelsea have now made 50% more signings than wins in all competitions since Todd took over – 24 signings to 16 wins.
Has there ever been such a massively poor signing to win ratio in the league, apart from maybe Forest?
Bonkers stuff, my only thought on it is that Todd is contractually obliged to spend £1.5bn before he can flog the club and he’s trying to do it as fast as possible.
ta,
Dave PVFC
Dropping like flies
So after two rounds, there’s only two (possibly three) teams left who haven’t dropped points.
If only Bayern Manchester can tumble a bit like all the other teams this promises to be a very interesting season.
Stijn, Amsterdam
Cool it Spurs
Fellas, please.
The south stand at The Lane was absolutely rocking yesterday. It was a visceral, fun day out. One that we all needed badly. But Glen, Stratford Spur – please please let’s not talk about a future to salivate over. To be fair you’ve managed expectations somewhat at the back end of your letter. But any talk of the future needs to be put on hold.
Yesterday was probably the best atmosphere since..let me see…opening day of the season two years ago. Playing a team from Manchester, our low-profile manager, who’d taken over from a narcistic disciplinarian WINNER, gave us something to smile about. On a sunny Kane-less August day, our first home game saw us deservedly win after a huge missed chance from a Portuguese (for Bruno see Bernado). It all looks so similar. And look where that ended up.
But sh*t it was fun. When that stadium rocks, it really does rock. Recently the only time that happened when was the Chilli Peppers or Beyonce played there though. No one has been enjoying it. With its glass and steel and sweeping lines, it can feel like you’re in Terminal 5. And the way Conte plays, it felt like waiting for a delayed flight in T5. Fans, players and the stadium needed to let that all out. Welcome back Spurs, I hope you’re here to stay.
Andrew, Woodford Green
Enjoy the moments though
Nice one Glen, Stratford Spur. Let’s not forget the fun that we have on the journey. Twitter c**ts will have you believe that if you don’t come out on top your team are bottlers and losers.
As a Liverpool supporter our team has lost out over the past few years in 2 CL finals and by 1 point in the league twice. Dickheads will paint this as failure with their tiresome ‘cry more’ nonsense as if the outcome is a binary zero sum result.
Do you actually think that missing out on a trophy wipes out the joy we felt during every last minute winner, come back from going a goal or 2 down, smashing 7 past our most hated rivals?
Enjoy the game boys and girls, winning a pot is loads of fun but turning a loss into a draw in the last minute against whoever can be equally as rewarding.
Peace x
James Outram, Wirral
Question
Quick one, is it just me or does that Villa shirt look more like a West Ham shirt, than the actual West Ham shirt?
Ta,
Dave PVFC
How bad are Everton?
Great to get points on the board and wipe out the negative goal difference from last week but have to say that Everton were shocking. It’s going to be a long season for them.
Paul
Discipline dilemma
I watched Utd-Wolves last week, and thought Martinez got very lucky not to get a second yellow card in the first half – he tried to bring down Matheus Nunes as he broke through the middle (again) but Nunes was too strong and just bumped him away. If Nunes had gone down, Martinez was off for sure – and I’m certain that’s why he got taken off.
He’s a lovely, lovely defender and clearly loves treading a fine line, but United can ill afford to have both him and Casemiro running the risk of a red card on a regular basis.
Jamie
You know women’s football has arrived when…
Seriously what is it with England keepers being the most unlikable people. Earps going full Pickford with WWF Attitude era tongue wagging antics. Laughable.
Commentators saying Lauren James coming on and scoring would be a fairytale. She’s not David Brooks returning from cancer, she literally stamped on someone and got rightly punished for violent conduct. Laughable.
Nice to see these Lionesses being every bit as arrogant as the Men’s national team and just as lacking in mentality. Second class in every department to the Spanish. Laughable.
FENT, Belfast
…You’ve both worked very hard and in a way you’re both winners but in another more accurate way, Barney Spain is the winner.
Matthew, Belfast
Saudis dominating the Asian market?
Here’s a different angle/line of questions to ponder about the Saudi pro league take-off. Just in time for aging underpaid veteran and famously conservative Muslim Aymeric Laporte to jet off for the delights of Jeddah.
The background here is that the Saudi national team is actually one of the more decent Asian teams around. They have regularly qualified for the WC, and even though they usually get tonked, they are about as successful as Australia and definitely better than China. Given that they don’t have that many players in Europe, the domestic league must be decent enough to support the national team, and they are strong in the Asian Champions League. I doubt it has been popular though.
But now, all of a sudden, the Saudi league must be the most popular in Asia, and more importantly, must be pretty popular with young Asian fans. TV rights prices must have soared, and there is probably going to be a lot more interest in the Asian Champions League (within Asia at least). So while people have been thinking about the effect on Europe, the real play might have been for more prominence in Asia.
Is it good for the Asian conference? It might be like the situation in France, where the competitiveness of the league is a joke but the League needs the money. Just to put it in context, next this season, Ronaldo, Benzema and co could be turning up in Japan, Australia, Thailand, Indonesia, Korea, the Fillipines, Israel, Turkmenistan, or India (etc….) for COMPETITIVE games. Their presence is a money spinner for all Asian teams, but there are going to be some 14-0 scores, aren’t there….
On the flip side I doubt the Japanese and Korean teams are going to roll over and be tickled. So it might raise the quality of the top end of the Asian conference.
So, an interesting few years ahead.
André E