Chelsea face impossible dilemma over summer transfers as project “resets to zero”
Chelsea face impossible dilemma over summer transfers as project “resets to zero” Chelsea’s predicament now is that they are losing money but still haven’t established a competitive Champions League team. If you enjoy Chelsea News coverage and want to see more of it, add us as a preferred source on Google to make us a favourite and see more of our content. Martin Samuel is a very well respected writer about football, and he’s turned his eye to Chelsea after a painful few weeks for the Blues.
In his piece for the Times over the weekend, he makes a very pertinent point about the double bind we saw emerge over the international break – the combination of the crippling financial losses the club are making with the doubts that the top players already there have about the project. Chelsea face lose-lose over strategy as losses mount “If Chelsea go with [buying] youth again, bigger players may sense continued transition and agitate to leave,” Samuel wrote. “If they spend big, senior players will have to be sold to finance this.
Either way, they are facing a break-up. Then the project resets to zero. ” That puts the dilemma very clearly.
The spending it would take to satisfy the top players in this squad isn’t possible without… selling those top players. They can keep their top players without adding to them – but all that guarantees is more dissatisfaction in the group, and little chance of the major improvement needed to return to the Champions League – the only way this financial death spiral can be stopped. In other news… Estevao’s return to the squad could make a huge impact in these final weeks of the season.
Anything is possible with the Brazilian in the team. Cole Palmer had a typically cheeky answer when asked about captaining Chelsea for the first time at the weekend. DOWNLOAD THE OFFICIAL CHELSEA NEWS APP FOR ALL THE LATEST UPDATES – STRAIGHT TO YOUR PHONE!