Starting to feel the same, they are buying top young talent, also I would think their spending shows the American backed Super League is 99% certain and not far away.
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The Squad planning thread
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supercity88
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anyone else think Chelsea have actually been smarter than we think with all this splashing of the cash in a sense of inflating the market going forward? They have signed some amazing players like Mudryk, Nkunku, Gusto and likely Enzo but now all also inflated the prices of EVERY other player we may go for?
There's nothing smart about it. They've spent a fortune on overpriced unproven players. It's a unique situation though. They lost the majority of their back four and have several players coming to the end of contracts or getting older and a new owner who has probably seen the "project" at Liverpool and felt that was the way to go. But you're taking a lot of gambles. Chelsea ultimately are an excellent side when Kante plays and bang average without him. It will take time for them to click, but they finished third last season and lost the two domestic cup finals on penalties. It's been quite a decline since because of those circumstances. They could easily put a quality side together, but it feels a bit rag-style at the moment where they're buying for the sake of it and have no idea how to pull it all together. They're going to be benching a lot of young talent each week, who might be quite happy to sit on mega wages for 7 years!
supercity88
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More like we should take a chance with cheap gems and not wait for them to become 60/70/80m stars. Do you think we may have not scouted players that Brighton signed? We probably didn't take risk and can understand why. But when it comes to refreshing squad we cannot have all of them costing 60/70/80m with 200k wages
There's no need to do that. If that model worked then Brighton/Southampton/Dortmund would win the league every season. But they don't, because clubs like us take the players once they've developed them. Our academy generates a huge income and that offsets the difference in price anyway. We still act wisely in general. There are a few question marks more recently - Grealish, Phillips and Gomez. But generally our signings have paid off and some. We've won a lot under Pep thanks to our strategy. If we can unearth a gem then we will, but it's lower risk to spend £100m on a proven player than £60m on someone who looks good but hasn't performed at the top level before. The £40m difference is made up by selling 2-3 academy players and if they go and become successful then we'll buy them back.
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Cancelo
Laporte
Gundodgan
Bernando
Gomez
Phillips
All likely to be gone.
Mahrez one year left
De Bruyne will be turning 32
Going to be quite the shake up
Laporte
Gundodgan
Bernando
Gomez
Phillips
All likely to be gone.
Mahrez one year left
De Bruyne will be turning 32
Going to be quite the shake up
MadchesterCity
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Looks like we have no plan
Pubteam Lomas
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Convinced Gvardiol is our No 1 target.Could be looking at 2 LBs, a CM (or 2 if Gundo goes) and a winger in the summer. Gonna be expensive
With 5 centre backs at the club, that’s a bit hard to understand. Can’t see why we should spend 100m on him. And no, he’s not a left back, he’s a left footed CB that has played there occasionallyConvinced Gvardiol is our No 1 target.