What's the asterisk beside Chelsea and Man u's name mean in them 2 pictures ?
At the time that was published Chelsea were either still being sold or just been bought so everything was frozen and the new ticket prices hadn't yet been confirmed.
They announced ticket prices freezes for almost everything expect Westview in the West Stand which went up significantly. That part of the stadium was redesigned by the old regime during covid and ticket prices were going up there even pre-Boehly/Clearlake coming in.
Point I was making was that Arsenal fans should be the last to talk about ticket prices.
Throwing money around is currently the problem. Chelsea is a team made up of at least three different ways of approaching the game. Four if you count the Sarri leftovers.
The issue is that there's no identity. I can tell you HOW City, Liverpool, Arsenal, United and even Tottenham play. I couldn't tell you what this Chelsea team is actually good at.
And while things CAN change in Football, they can also change for the worst. If it holds, you lot will miss Champions League AND Europa League. That shyt starts to get REEEEL dicey for big contract holders.
Trust me I know, I'm a Gooner.
You're right, the squad as currently constructed isn't cohesive and wasn't well thought out. In fact the summer window kind of exasperated that problem a further because the new recruitment structure and directors weren't in place until
after the window closed.
But since then look at the moves being made:
David Datro Fofana (£10.6m, Molde)
Benoit Badiashile (£33.6m, Monaco)
Andrey Santos (£11m, Vasco da Gama)
Joao Felix (loan, Atletico Madrid)
Mykhaylo Mudryk (£62.5m, Shakhtar Donetsk)
Noni Madueke (£30.7m, PSV Eindhoven)
Average age of 20 years old.
There's talk today that the door is open for Felix being made permanent if he does well. Linked again today with Enzo (22 years old) and Gusto (19). And I haven't even mentioned Cobham guys like Reece or Colwill yet.
Would the new recruitment team have paid 50m for Sterling? 33m for Kouliably? Would they have got Aubameyang? Looking at the moves they've made so far and the players we're linked with it's a resounding no.
They're clearly serious about building a good young team and whether Potter is the man remains to be seen. He did get a lot of praise for his work at Brighton. I personally think De Zerbi has improved on that but they had the foundations of a good team in place so Potter deserves some credit for that.
By the way, we have quite a few players with contracts expiring in the next 6-18 months like Jorginho, Kante, Silva, Pulisic, Azpilicueta, Kovacic, Aubameyang just to name a few. That's even more money freeing up for the club to better allocate.
I'm not saying Chelsea will win the treble next season but I'll bet we won't have to wait as long as Arsenal did to become good again. shyt, call me crazy but if we sign Enzo and get a few players back from injury like Kante and Reece we could go on a Champions League run
this season. Stranger things have happened.
