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

Chelsea have strengthened literally every area of weakness within the squad or made future plans to do so that is of course with regard to Christopher N’Kunku and Malo Gusto. The squad is of course bloated now but that’s only for a season. There will be outgoings as Chelsea moves forward and the speed and plurality of signings will likely lessen.

Though it’s hard for people to accept Boehly’s roughly 600 million euros in net-spending can be broken up in time and dealt with, with frankly very little imagination (another reason why the recent lily-livered patheticism of other clubs’ UEFA complaints really is as distressingly feeble as it is).

Firstly, the spend is broken up over the course of multiple years. Mudryk and Fernandes are both in 2023 and not 2022. That’s 190 million euros right there. 410 million in 2022 is of course a lot of money but the Blues in the years up to 2020 were making roughly 500 million euros per year in revenue. 600 million averaged over two years is 300 million and Chelsea have openly acknowledged that the spending will slow.

Of course, it will. When the club stabilizes and possesses a higher average level of quality they’ll likely revert to the academy and one or two major additions per year philosophy that most major clubs do. The hole was just so incredibly deep that to get to the necessary level to compete with not only the Manchester City’s, United’s and Liverpool’s of the world but also Real Madrid and Bayern Munich as well.

Even if CFC buys one player a year every single year for the next 10 years at an average of even 80 million euros per player including the recent spending the average spend would be 116 million euros per season or 100 million pounds. That’s less than simply the tv money payment the Blues get from the Premier League and well under the 500 million euros of revenue the Boehly, Eghbali and the rest of the brain trust have literally said they intend to grow first and foremost.

The even more hilarious factor is that in spending as they have to get the ball rolling they’ve made it easier for themselves. Writers who aren’t interested in Chelsea are covering the Blues. TV networks again consider them to be “must-watch” television. They’re being broadcast at better times to more people in more countries than they were even six months ago and in doing so they’ll sell more shirts, more ads, more commercial everything.