Tactics and Transfers: Fortune favors the bold, the Behdad and Boehly way

Great players, great managers, the sportsmen who believe in their bones that they have what it takes to triumph beyond simply the crucible of today’s sporting competition but that they should in fact be among those remembered for simply taking part in it have egos. What though pressurizes them and makes statements of intention and imagination so important is the opposite side of that coin. What they have in God-given talent they lack in time.

Few of the rest of us know what it’s like to try and earn not only enough money but enough credibility to carry the rest of a human life in only 10 years or so. To know that an entire lifetime worth of dedication to a craft and a dream could be over with one tackle or misplaced step. It is because of that they all know there’s not one single second to wait.

Every great sportsman knows that time is their enemy so seeing a club boldly demanding a seat at the table and suggesting that they won’t be successful later but now is something that holds vast appeal. That’s simply the philosophical side. The even more straightforward truth of the matter is that Chelsea’s side was better described by a  word rhyming with hit and beginning with an S and they were properly so.

The Blues ever lovable ability to triumph above the odds led to an overly accepted notion of quality when sheer guts really were the building block. That though is why Chelsea succeeded in cup competitions and haven’t been a relevant league force since Antonio Conte simply willed it so.

CFC needed an immediate upgrade to the simple quality level of the side and it was better to do it sooner rather than later. In the end the Blues didn’t compromise on the quality of their signings, at times they overpaid, but they bought the right players.

The irritation with our amortization negotiation tactics is something I’m hoping will pass. That other clubs, rather than using that very tactic simply decided to complain about it is the sort of small-mindedness I simply can’t stomach so I’m literally going to move on from it at the end of this sentence.