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Tbf it's only a revenue stream contingent on bad business being conducted in the first place. Hopefully these news rules lead to less room for manoeuvre so scouting/squad building needs to improve. Drinkwater was a garbage signing in 2017, no serious club makes that transfer. Choosing Bakayoko from that Monaco team is braindead scouting at its absolute worst.

If you saw how Drinkwater and Kante played together at Leicester and given that Conte used a 2 man pivot the transfer kinda made sense in the hope of replicating it again. Just not at that price tho. Also Leicester probably felt that they didn't get full value for Kante especially after Chelsea won the league the season he signed.

Bakayoko was signed to be the legs/cover for Kante.

As you and I both know Chelsea's transfer strategy is crazy. Half the players are signed with the coaches approval I.e he wanted them. Some are signed as a long term business investment to sell later on down the line and some are Roman/Marina doing one way or another. Either they like the player or it's a cheaper option to what the coach asked for. Like what happened with Jose the first time around etc...
 

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