Tactics and Transfers: Chelsea philosophy change can create wins and profit

Another benefit to not signing more players is the obvious: Chelsea’s team is too big compounding the issue and PAYING for the pleasure of doing so isn’t the sort of move that makes sense.

One of the practices that simply must stop is buying players with no intention of their impacting the playing team. On Cesare Casadei, Carney Chukwuemeka and Gabriel Slonina Chelsea spent roughly £45 million pounds AND damaged their long-term potential by not playing them.

Almost all the great players are starting to get significant minutes in their 18-21-year old seasons. Ronaldo (both of them), Messi, Buffon, Rooney, Neymar, Totti, Torres all played significant moments then.

Paying £45 million not only damages the long and near-term value of the assets themselves but also to not even aid the first team in doing so is probably the worst possible use for the £45 million. Even just saving the interest fee payments on the loans would be useful.

That’s not to say by the way that buying talented youngsters isn’t a good idea. Of course, it is!

But they must play.

If not with Chelsea then 30-40 matches with a top-5 league team. If they’re not even good enough to be wanted in that capacity by a single team in those parameters then one is forced to ask “why did you spend literally millions of pounds on them in the first place?”

This though is one of the reasons why Pochettino is such a good choice. Of the managers in Europe who are good at developing youth players and feel fundamentally that THAT is the real job of a coach he is within the top-3. So the appointment definitely helps in that regard.

Now though Chelsea needs to thin the squad.

Not only for the sake of getting money in the door but also salary savings are important.

Also, it should be noted here that I am going to be realistic. Some of Chelsea’s players maybe had a bad season (can you blame them in this turmoil?) or are on such high salaries that other teams won’t take them.