It’s too big not too now though. A total restructuring is needed regardless of any ESL.
The PL is too big a bridge for some of these clubs.
Pyramid system is better in theory than practice now.
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The previous generation failed us. They failed to protect the game. Greed got in the way
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It’s no surprise. Let’s not forget during COVID. Project Big Picture was being floated about.
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This is ten percent luck
Twenty percent skill
Fifteen percent concentrated power of will
Five percent pleasure
Fifty percent pain
And a hundred percent certain that Roman is a war criminal.
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That’ll be £200mil on defenders because the whole world knows they’re desperate
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Goddammit
We’ll see what happens when they miss on a few transfers. No owner will write off losses the way Roman did.
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Aww 
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The new owners will spend big initially to get the fans behind them but that won’t continue, certainly if they’re not challenging for the PL title.
If they buy expensive players that don’t work out, it’ll be down to the manager to sort it out.
There won’t be a sugar daddy to throw money at the club when things starts going wrong.
Like I said before, Chelsea fans like to portray their club as self sustaining, so let’s see what happens when they can’t buy their way out of trouble and have to rely on profit making owners.
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200m won’t mean much if they go out and buy a couple more Lukakus. If it doesn’t go well with a few pieces Tuchel tries to fit in the safety net is gone this time. Gonna be an interesting few years anyway. Would have been better of they’d folded though.
Chelsea were never going to be allowed to fail.
They’ll be back on top in no time
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Aren’t they already 3rd ?
Let’s be honest look at Liverpool, Arsenal and United - they all have American owners and they’ve all spent plenty of money in the last half decade so I don’t see that being any different with Chelsea.
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None of them have American owners that parted with billions to buy their clubs.
I’ve no idea why people think they want to spend that much on an asset to then just watch it break even and die rather than invest in it.
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It’s just wishful thinking
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Except Kroenke spent nothing when he first bought the club, which saw us fall out of the top four and his decision making is appalling.
But you have to hand it to Man U, they have even worse decision makers than us.
As for Liverpool, it proves if you have a competent owner, you don’t need oil billions to be successful.
So, as long as we have a clueless owner, we will continue to see idiotic decisions being made.
This is why we have an underwhelming manager like Arteta but worse than that, will persist with him.
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I think the main difference is to what extent a consortium will allow a club to piss money away.
Roman was very lenient about stuff like that.
It also took FSG a minute to get their sea legs. This isn’t a closed North American league with a draft, salary cap, and salary minimums, trades and nonguaranteed contracts. It’s not to say Chelsea’s new owners won’t spend, it’s just how well will they spend, will they invest even after big transfers fail, will they go out and buy Werner, then buy Lukakau and absorb any losses? We know Roman would, but he also didn’t care about anything beyond sportswashing. Other owners may want to turn a profit or at least limit losses.
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