Who would have thought that that spending billions on the best players to play under a succession of the best managers, then buying world class players to sit on the bench while accumulating Europe’s elite youth players would be successful?
They’re so good at finding talent they can even afford to let surplus players like Salah and De Bruyne go.
What is truly great about Chelsea is that they’ve achieved all their success with a support base no bigger than that of West Ham or Aston Villa.
It’s amazing what a Russian crook can do to turn a club going out of business into the biggest plastic club in Europe by buying success.
What Chelsea have done well over the years is sign players like Azpecuilata types and get years of solid service out of them.
Ivanovic was another. Players who are dependable and give solid structure to the team. Get overlooked these signings and yeah Willian was another in that category too say nothing of Cech.
Chelsea have thrown so much money at their youth setup and senior squad transfers whilst keeping competent people in charge the consequence is always going to be some form of success.
Respect Cobham is basically respecting that Chelsea threw loads of money at attracting the best young English talent for the last 15-20 years and it’s not baring fruit.
They as a club can afford to sign shit players for high sums and simply replace said individual if he turns out to be shit lol
Yeah, they’re not built for a title challenge as they are, attack is too blunt and not consistent enough. Also the formation doesn’t lend itself to turning over teams consistently, playing one less attacker is not something you’d see from City or Liverpool on a consistent basis if at all.
Never quite got how they were labelled as favourites, winning the CL is a different animal to winning the PL especially with City and Liverpool as your rivals to the trophy. A third placed finish was the most likely outcome.
I didn’t think they’d have much problems keeping pace to make 90 points which would be sufficient for a title race. Definitely wrong on that. Keep dropping too many games against weaker sides.
