Tactics and Transfers: Simplicity will make most of Chelsea’s spending

Chelsea’s loss to Nottingham Forest is the sort of thing that makes football what it is. To call it anything other than that would be ill-natured. That’s also why we love it and in life you have to take your licks too.

If anyone struggles to see that CFC have angered the football gods or at the very least the good-natured balance of the sport then I’d imagine it’s unlikely they have been paying attention to the sport for very long.

To have spent money the way that Chelsea have they needed to lose early on. They have outlaid slightly over £1 billion since the Boehly-Clearlake group took over the club. Yes, it’s true they have also sold a great deal and over the last five years have done such good business in that sense that both Manchester clubs have higher net spends. Yet another reason why the Xenophobia of Gary Neville is just so tiresome by the way.

That fact doesn’t really matter though. In general, the west Londoners’ expenditure has been exciting and generated interest and fascination for many. The Premier League is the money league of all the competitions in Europe and though it may be distasteful to say in many ways that has served it well over the past 20 years.

Outside of that, my real suspicion is that there is going to be some intricate financial machination that happens with CFC and the new ownership group. This is because when the deal for the club was closed with the British government the terms were very interesting. Though often reported as a £4 billion sale that was not exactly the full truth. The club was bought for £2.5 billion with another peculiar term decided by the government that they must spend £1.5 billion on improving the infrastructure and health of the business itself.