Chelsea's transfer strategy ?

[Rosco]

If you can call it that ....

For something like the past 15 years we've seen Chelsea sign the best talent available no matter the cost. They also scooped up numerous great prospects from clubs around Europe setting uo this huge loan network to help develop them (and letting some great prospects leave in the process).

Michael Emanelo seemed to be the one pulling the strings for the last number of years but he departed a few months back and took up a similar position with Monaco.

There was talk of unrest amongst the management team leading to Emanelo's departure and i wonder how much of that has been caused by Abramovich putting Marina Granovskia in place to ensure Chelsea were getting value for money.

Their own website states:

She joined the board of Chelsea FC plc and the Football Club Board in June 2013 and is mainly responsible for player transactions.]

I'm guessing she grew into that role and as time went on she took on more responsibility. And the transfers have gotten stranger over that time.

In 14/15 it was a mixed bag - Costa, Fabregas, Cuadrado, Felipe Luis, Loic Remy. But they sold Lukaku and Bertrand.

In 15/16 it was Pedro, Baba, Falcao, Begovic, Kenedy, Djilobodji.

In 16/17 it was Batshuayi, Kante, Luiz and Alonso. They sold Salah and Bertrand Traore.

This season they've signed Drinkwater, Barkley, Zappacosta, Rudiger, Bakayoko ,Morata, Giroud and a fullback named Emerson.

They seemed to seriously consider a move for Andy Carroll and some other terrible targetmen.

I can't fathom what the fuck they're doing

 

[juniormember]

If they continue this frankly wonderful approach to transfers, they’ll be the ones to drop out of the top four. Really weird.

 

[Squiggles]

I think it's hard for a club who built it's success on unparalleled wealth to attempt to shift towards competing whilst being sustainable. The transition doesn't appear to have been done so either any great success. There approach to transfers at the minute seems remarkably haphazard. It's all fine by me.


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[mark1975]

Heh, and in the last 15 years they've won 5 titles, 4 FA Cups, 3 League Cups, 1 Champions League and 1 Europa League. Whatever their transfer original strategy was, they concentrated on the "now" and won loads. So it'll be great if the wheels fall off and despite their wealth, they continue to capitulate.

 

[LeTallecWiz]

Mystic started this convo a while back:

http://sixcrazyminutes.com/index.php?threads/chelsea.113222/

But yeah, they're buying oddly - and still not giving their kids much of a chance.
That being said, as Mark notes, they've won everything ... maybe this is where the journey insh'allah ends.

 

[manwithnoname]

It seems a lot of people are viewing this as simply Chelsea having less money to spend, or undermining Conte by withholding funds until they get the next manager in.

This year they've bought Drinkwater, Zappacosta, Morata, Giroud, Emerson, Rudiger, Bakayoko and Barkley

That's still a spend of about £230m

Yeah, some of them have looked horrible buys so far (and some might be great) but they've spent money. And they've quite often had (relative) quiet periods with little expenditure, but then come back in with huge spending sprees. The links to Crouch and that lump from Burnley were indeed very odd (if true) but they've made plenty of very odd decisions in the past, it just seems like they're making more of them these days.

They will spend big again.

 

[Hansern]

They also sold players for 190 mill this season, so the outlay isnt much in all honesty.
Their transfer strategy seem to be all over the place at the moment. Making two bad moves for each good.

 

[hmmmmm1]

They will be still be challenging for trophies. conte is good coach, though looks like he is off this summer.

 

[Grjt2]

They will be still be challenging for trophies. conte is good coach, though looks like he is off this summer.

1/2 to get the chop before next season, and something like 5/2 to go before the Barca tie. Not often the bookies are way off base...

 

[Red Mullet]

If you can call it that ....

For something like the past 15 years we've seen Chelsea sign the best talent available no matter the cost. They also scooped up numerous great prospects from clubs around Europe setting uo this huge loan network to help develop them (and letting some great prospects leave in the process).

Michael Emanelo seemed to be the one pulling the strings for the last number of years but he departed a few months back and took up a similar position with Monaco.

There was talk of unrest amongst the management team leading to Emanelo's departure and i wonder how much of that has been caused by Abramovich putting Marina Granovskia in place to ensure Chelsea were getting value for money.

Their own website states:


I'm guessing she grew into that role and as time went on she took on more responsibility. And the transfers have gotten stranger over that time.

In 14/15 it was a mixed bag - Costa, Fabregas, Cuadrado, Felipe Luis, Loic Remy. But they sold Lukaku and Bertrand.

In 15/16 it was Pedro, Baba, Falcao, Begovic, Kenedy, Djilobodji.

In 16/17 it was Batshuayi, Kante, Luiz and Alonso. They sold Salah and Bertrand Traore.

This season they've signed Drinkwater, Barkley, Zappacosta, Rudiger, Bakayoko ,Morata, Giroud and a fullback named Emerson.

They seemed to seriously consider a move for Andy Carroll and some other terrible targetmen.

I can't fathom what the fuck they're doing

Yes but are they all fit?

 

[Jerry Laser]

Eventually the bubble was gonna burst....

They were always a club typical in size to Everton Spurs Aston Villa....

Abramovich achieved all his targets... premiership, champions league etc.

They basically can't compete with Man City. But that bubble will burst too eventually. Let's hope it's sooner rather than later.

 

[LarryHagman]

I've mentioned this a couple of times, fuck knows what they're up to.
Their recent signings have been horrible, so bad they look as if they're bad on purpose. Then, they're happy to feed off Arsenal's cast-offs so they can go for one of the most coveted strikers in Europe. Weird.
Whatever the reason, they're fucking things up and that's good news. It looks like a breakdown between Board and Manager and they're driving him out.

 

[gkmacca]

They're not only investing massively in a new stadium, they've also been drawn unexpectedly into loads of legal problems because of the design and complaints from residents and companies nearby. That's a major reason for the changing policy in terms of transfers. And the manager is toast, so that's another factor.

 

[Woland]

Is it any worse than ours?

 

[baitman]

Conte is just making a balls up so they pay him off and sack him.

Hopefully abramovich chucks his toys out of the pram cos he isnt bss baby anymore now city have got all the best toys, it'd be fucking ace if he walked out on them cunts.

 

[Frogfish]

Isn't Abramovich about to lose half of his (official) money in a divorce ? I'd imagine that, quite aside from the stadium and legal issues, is going to stymy their transfer budget. Maybe he'll want to see his 'loans' to the club repaid sooner rather than later.

 

[HC]

Its such an Expensive, high-risk market, I think they can be forgiven for not going ham on individual transfers, the have a squad of domestic champions afterall, Rudiger, Baka and Morata were highly sought-after and ok maybe neither have delivered.

Is their transfer policy and stranger/ Hit n Miss than Arsenal, Utda or our own?

Not many clubs can spend a quarter of a billion on defenders whilst cherry pickingtop players elsewhere like City, Chelsea used to be transfer top dogs but it was never as effortlessly grandiose as the way City are currently doing it.

 

[Athens]

Isn't Abramovich about to lose half of his (official) money in a divorce ? I'd imagine that, quite aside from the stadium and legal issues, is going to stymy their transfer budget. Maybe he'll want to see his 'loans' to the club repaid sooner rather than later.

If he was living back in Russia, she probably would die in a 'mysterious' accident before the divorce goes through.

 

[Frogfish]

If he was living back in Russia, she probably would die in a 'mysterious' accident before the divorce goes through.

Probably wouldn't be 'mysterious' at all. Double tap. It'd be well covered up though.

 

[Athens]

Probably wouldn't be 'mysterious' at all. Double tap. It'd be well covered up though.

Over on Sky Sports they would still think he's a positive influence on the English game.

 

[Oncy]

Batyshuiayai scored two on Dortmund debut.
Good job again Chelsea

 

[SummerOnions]

Let's just say they're in for a... Gi-roud awakening

 

[StevieM]

Let's just say they're in for a... Gi-roud awakening

Boo!!!!

 

[Athens]

Maybe this also explains what's happening in Chelsea:
[article]
Russian oligarchs in UK told to explain luxury lifestyles

Russian oligarchs suspected of corruption will be forced to explain their luxury lifestyles in the UK, the security minister has said.
As part of an organised crime crackdown, Ben Wallace told The Times officials could now seize suspicious assets worth more than £50,000.
He added wealthy foreign criminals would feel the "full force of government".
It is estimated £90bn of illegal cash is laundered in the UK each year.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-42926819
[/article]

Although Abramovich is probably above all this.

 

[FoxForceFive]

Maybe this also explains what's happening in Chelsea:
[article]
Russian oligarchs in UK told to explain luxury lifestyles

Russian oligarchs suspected of corruption will be forced to explain their luxury lifestyles in the UK, the security minister has said.
As part of an organised crime crackdown, Ben Wallace told The Times officials could now seize suspicious assets worth more than £50,000.
He added wealthy foreign criminals would feel the "full force of government".
It is estimated £90bn of illegal cash is laundered in the UK each year.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-42926819
[/article]

Although Abramovich is probably above all this.

That's a load of bollocks, simply because any 'oligarch' has already run their money through 'clean' source, usually using Swiss banking laws & shell companies, well before they 'launder' it by buying property in the UK, as they are well aware that this was always a possibility.

This will make seizing property from mid to higher tier criminals much easier, but I'd be fucking gobsmacked if they take so much as a car from any 'oligarch' using this legislation.

 

[Oliver Twist]

Maybe this also explains what's happening in Chelsea:
[article]
Russian oligarchs in UK told to explain luxury lifestyles

Russian oligarchs suspected of corruption will be forced to explain their luxury lifestyles in the UK, the security minister has said.
As part of an organised crime crackdown, Ben Wallace told The Times officials could now seize suspicious assets worth more than £50,000.
He added wealthy foreign criminals would feel the "full force of government".
It is estimated £90bn of illegal cash is laundered in the UK each year.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-42926819
[/article]

Although Abramovich is probably above all this.

David Luiz to be seized soon.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

They've got four boss first teamers - Hazard, Courtois, Kante and Azpilicueta. They're gonna bomb out the top 4.