Our recruitment has been shocking in the past 3 years or so. Lo Celso, Ndombele, Doherty, Hart, Gollini, Clarke, Rodon, Sessegnon Vinicius, Bergwijn and Gedson have all failed big time. To be honest I was genuinely shocked you finished below us last season and have no idea how we are only a point behind you this season. Our recruitment seriously needs sorting out cos it has led to us having an unbalanced squad where we can only rely on 12-15 players. We are completely unable to rotate...we've lost 3 games in Europe when we've rotated players Conte must wonder what the **** he's done joining us tbh
Nah it’s not right to blame one particular club for this nonsense. What happened when the TV money increased massively 6/7 years back is that players who were in the £3-5m bracket instantly became £15m and so on and so forth, as the game set about giving away its new found revenue in fees, wages and agents bills.
That compounded the issue, but Chelsea's obscene amount of spending when Roman came along skewed the market out of all proportion. The extra TV money meant that more clubs could spend larger amounts of money, but the bar had already been set where the top players were out of the reach of most clubs due to the extortionate transfer fees and player wages.
There’s a club every decade who’s accused of the same thing, going back to the 60’s. You’d maybe have a point if they’d set the highest fee World records, but they’ve not even come close, in fact, their biggest sale eclipses their biggest purchase by some distance. You’ve got Goonervision here because they nicked your place as the biggest challengers to United.
Pretty sure since the turn of the century Chelsea have spent the most on transfers in Europe. True they've managed to recoup a fair chunk of that through player sales. But the argument there is that they've been able to spend big in the first place in order to command top dollar when they sell.
Not really. You can only command top dollar if the player is good. Tv money nowaday is by far the biggest factor on transfer fees
Net spend is the only figure that matters, as you can’t ignore sales to suit an argument. They’re the 3rd highest net spenders in the World in the last 20 years, behind City and United, they’re around £400m behind City. You’re 10th btw. #value
Cool so we are clear then that apart from in 2004 and a few years after its now the rise in tv money. So it was something that was going to happen and be ineivitable (like the first million pounds signing etc, rampant inflation)
Pandora's box is well and truly open now. There's no going back. And the TV money now has inflated it all out of proportion. But let's not forget that you were a £1 club destined for the scrapheap before Roman, who bought you the success that followed.
Not sure I agree with the net spend argument. If you inflate the market so that average players are worth £50m and good players £80m+ then really it's just a game of financial musical chairs amongst the elite/wealthy clubs. Most of us don't even get a chair to play the game as we've been priced out of the market. Fair play to Chelsea though, as they seem to have worked out an excellent strategy.
