Premier league experience should not be considered for Chelsea targets

It’s common in the Chelsea fanbase to see people lean toward, or away from transfer targets based on the experience they have playing in the league their clubs play in, in this case, the Premier League. The general belief is that players that have played in a certain league for a while would need less time to adapt to the team that’s targeting them, if that team plays in the same league the player plays in.

In reality, the time a player has spent playing in a league has no bearing on how well or how badly they’d do in another club in that same league. For one, the Premier League is abstract. It’s a league, not a team. The league is made up of a variety of teams, managers, playing styles and systems. A player is often playing within the constraints of a certain system.

That player doing well in that system shows only that, a player being able to do well in a team with certain factors in place. If you change some of the factors, it can be alarming how differently that player will perform. How that performance translates is down to various external factors and personal attributes of the player. A player playing in Chelsea’s team would probably have to deal with a set of different things if he goes to another team, and vice versa

It is important to understand this because many players are credited with things they shouldn’t be credited with and then expectations are built based on things that have no foundation or basis. What are the various reasons a player would do well in a team?