According to Transfermarkt (in Euros).
Huge amount of minor groin strains in the squad when she was there I heard.
That is only this summer, and the reporting is over their entire 18 months acquisition period (and beyond, with much of it not yet being assessed for FFP compliance).
Well yeah, last summer is an absolute pisstake. I'm just responding to the 'How can Chelsea still be spending these huge sums of money?' rhetoric. It reminds me a bit of similar shit about us, where people never took into account the huge amounts of money we were bringing in with sales.
That’s fair enough. I just wanted to clarify I was talking about the full operations under the new Boehly regime, which are problematic from the standpoint of current FFP conventions (at best).
Maybe. It's a high risk strategy though. It also shows a level of strategic thinking that they don't seem to have demonstrated in their actual acquisitions so far.
I would say it is likely more a case of them falling in to it because of Boehly’s erratic decision making in the first 12 months of ownership than a product of real strategic thinking, but they are deciding now to lean fully in to it as a—as you said—highly risky bet.
You've also got to consider what any punishment is likely to be. Reduction in squad size for Europe. A transfer ban. A fine. They might just be willing to suck it up. Only a points reduction in the league or expulsion from Europe would really affect them.
They've brought in Nkunku who's fairly prolific, but then he needed surgery. I'd be more worried about CB if I was a Chelsea fan. Still relying on a 39 year-old Thiago Silva ffs.
Absolutely. That is why I think they are going with the “in for a penny, in for a pound” approach at this point.
For the first half an hour against the dips they played with virtually no left sided defence and could easily have been three or four down, I was surprised to see Silva still there!
I'd expect Poch to get the best out of some of their players though, and Chilwell and Cucarella are both players that have been great in the past. He got the best out of Danny Rose, so there's no reason he can't get Cucarella to remind everyone why they bought him in the first place.
He'll do a job, sure. But you've spent €600m net, from a starting point of a team that finished 3rd. For that sort of money, you'd expect to have the core of a team that can be title challengers for the next 10 years. Yet arguably you're going to find yourself next summer looking for a world class CB (and having to sell before you can buy). That's assuming that his age doesn't catch up with him this season. Players of that sort of age aren't usually playing over 30 league games a season. Last season was ironically the first year that he managed over 30 games in the league since 2010.
Is it? If the buy Lavia to go with Fernandez and Caicedo,it’s a solid midfield, not particularly creative as far as I can see,
