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You could deduct everton 70 points and they'll survive with 38 (all) matches won, 44 points (after deductions), all ending with the score of 1-0, 0 shots at goal and 0% possesion for the opposing team. Dyche football gonna make the opposition physically sleep on the pitch
If Boehly himself will be coach of Chelsea then I would bet on him... Cmon with all respect to Guardiola but he never could've come up with 4 4 3 formation...
When the new owners took over, all we really needed was a good goalkeeper and a world-class striker. 1.5 billion later, we still require those 2 things. Go figure.
@@fr0ntendI don't think that is a good measure. If you imagine a squad with every player reaching the peak to help them win the UCL it makes sense to sell them either because they are worth a lot or they are only getting worse.
What Chelsea is doing makes sense in that Boehly also owns a baseball club and is basically trying to import what works there with prospect development, long term and (hopefully) team friendly contracts, and tight front office control over the organization. Conversely, it doesn't make sense since there's no telling if it can actually translate and so far they have not been a convincing test case.
Indeed. First Baseball doesn't ahve transfer fees and it's a static game, football flow, team integration etc matters. Also a number of PL teams and a LOT of European teams are still financially struggling after COVID, it's why Arsenal struggled to get money for the likes of Ozil and Abu.
Actually usually teams take out loans from major finance institutions. Look up J.P. Morgan and football transfers (especially in the prem). So maybe he’s loading up debt who knows who’s responsible for paying or what the terms look like once debts aren’t paid.
@@danielebowman True, but it is a sport that often requires hundreds, if not more, of game reps for players to develop and get used to more advanced stages of the game, and it's there that I don't see how it can translate. Baseball teams, or at least the top leagues, have farm systems for their prospects while the closest thing football has to that is stuff like City Football Group.
@danielebowman biggest difference is number of game. Baseball has like 150+ games whilst football has like 50 with less opportunity to actually rotate players in the first place.
Those comments from Eghbali perfectly crystalize the entire situation at Chelsea. He wasn't totally wrong particularly on the commercial side of things, but it showed a complete misunderstanding of how football operates & unbelievable arrogance in thinking a US sports model could be transposed onto a football team & it'll work because "it's better". The simplicity of Roman Abramovich's approach is the very reason why it worked SO well! You didn't need state of the art technology & 100 advisors to conclude Jose Mourinho (in 2004) is probably gunna elevate your club, and he didn't need fancy scouting tools to conclude Didier Drogba is probably gunna develop into a monstrous Premier League striker. As Bill Shankly said, football is a simple game made complicated by idiots! If you genuinely care about owning a successful football club & you've got the money to make this a reality, you will own a successful football club IF you keep it simple - buy the best players you can, get the best manager you can & get all the facilities up to the best standards - that's it, and that's what Abramovich did. When you try getting cute like these clowns, you create a circus.
There is nothing wrong with a money ball approach using data instead of the Abramovich model of trying to outspend. Liverpool is one of the teams that rely heavily on analytics to dictate transfer strategies. Chelsea’s problem is their data sucks and they tried to shoehorn strategies that work for baseball into football.
Brighton are the ones doing it. Chelsea on the other hand, are only mocking the process, stacking players below the age of 20 is not prudent, it is pedophilic though @@corbi_
@@fanpackers4 That, and they are not finding performance value in slightly flawed (= cheaper) young players. A 1.5$Billion net spend and wind up outside of the Top 4 is insane, or criminal or insanely criminal.
If Chelsea don’t qualify for the Champions League for the next couple of years, is there a chance that they could end up like Leeds did in the 00’s? I ask this question as their scattergun approach to signings, seems even more reckless than Ridsdale era Leeds?! In fact, their approach makes Ridsdale’s look as sensible and measured as Brighton or Brentford.
If one thing Chelsea do well is offloading players. They will buy lots of players for 10-20m maybe even 30m, loan them multiple of times, maybe get close to first team then sell them for 5-20m profit. This offsets the losses from the star buys. You only need about 3 per season for this to work as decent revenue from elsewhere.
It's obvious the president knows nothing about running a football club this is precisely why Florentino Perez is so successful he is a businessman and he knows ball not to mention he grew up being a huge fan of the sport and a huge fan of Real Madrid he runs Real Madrid like a business which is why as of August 2024 Real Madrid remain the #1 most valuable and successful club in the world and this is according to Forbes other club presidents could learn from him
@@Sam__The__Slayer that's why they remain #1 Perez runs it like a business which is why they're so successful he's all about making as much money as possible
@@danensosnore9011 i didnt know that, but even at 62 mil its still a weird financial move if the plan was to sell him on in the future. The margins for profit start to look thin.
@@chombus2602it’s not the truth, players should have the right to play for the country they are born and raised in, regardless of their parent’s nationality.
I agree that he shouldn't of had the armband, but also it has been blown out of proportion. First of all, why is it only Enzo getting the blame, when it was the whole squad chanting it. If anything, I'm more at ease that he was the one filming it and not someone who was intentionally trying to hide the fact that they were singing this song, as it means that he probably genuinely didn't think the song was racist or he wouldn't have filmed it in the first place. Secondly, if people like Fofana, Disasi and the players who were affected by this song are happy with him again, then I can't really have an issue with him.
I want special rules for Chelsea this season. They’re not allowed any substitutions during game play and must play 11 different players in both halves.
They say Europeans are 20 years behind US sports in commercialization but US sports are 100 years behind winning and knowing how to actually run a club
The way the leagues operate have almost zero similarities so running a successful team has completely different definitions, I guess they’re trying a more American approach but so far it’s not working here even if it does work in the US.
3:05 It's worth noting though, that since every NBA franchise is basically the best team in a state in the US the size of countries in Europe, then, it's like comparing the each NBA to the sum of the Bundesliga or Ligue 1, etc.
plus, the nba is a legitimate outlier when it comes to salaries. nfl and mlb salary values are roughly equivalent to football players, and nhl players genuinely seem broke in comparison to everyone else
Y’all keep talking about the amount the players make. How much do sports exec make, let alone the dividends to the owner for just owning? Every dollar lebron makes, the lakers owners make like 4. Not to mention they shield the team from personal liability, so they can take loans with the team as a collateral, and the teams losses they don’t have to personally take out. So a team is a piggy bank. And as we see, also an instrument of money laundering.
@@The_capital_groupexactly, people always complain about athletes being overpaid but in reality they’re still only being paid a fraction of what the actual league/owners are making. with that said they still make way too much but there’s a good reason for it
@@stenstensson304 yeah, you can say they make way too much with respect to the state of society. But we should first point our frustration at the owners who just hire people and take out money, than the athletes who have dedicated their whole lives to this, and who we want to see play.
@@pakpaksugar5194ummm what? lol you might wanna look at NFL/MLB salaries 🤣🤣🤣 your best argument is NFL salaries aren’t guaranteed. Otherwise, athletes in both sports just make much more than even in the EPL
Americans came in and criticised Russian for his incompetence and how Chelsea isn't on standards of the US teams... Can't qualify for European football, can't standardise manager, can't keep dressing room happy, fit and reasonable numbers, can't make proper investments in the club.... Yeah... Americans trying to run European football club is pure idiocy
6:45 Happy to confirm that is factual. I feel, at minimum, 20% less anxious this season, hearing an Italian accent in press conferences again. Vialli, Ranieri, Ancelloti, Di Matteo, Conte, Sarri. We love Italians ❤ 🇮🇹
@MrBasketville I'd agree with the other comment. I don't think Di matteo ever had it in him to be a top-level manager. The league campaign following the Champions League win showed that to a degree. It's still a fairy tale that he won it months after taking over mid way through the season. It added to the magic of it all. I also loved that it kept the tradition going of Italian managers winning trophies at Chelsea. Almost every Italian manager we've had has won at least one trophy at the club. I don't know what the connection is, but it's hard to deny.
Chelsea have already implemented the youth gathering, loaning out and or benching youth with high prospects in the past...and they lost them to rivals on the island or in Europe. De Bruyne being the top player. Rinse and repeat is going to be a bad look for them.
It will eventually work out in the long run, but only after management learns some lessons about continuity and giving players, coaches, and systems time to grow. Probably 6 years down the road they win a title with a backbone purchased during this era, but that still won't mean they were doing it the right way. What that will really show is the power of money, even when mismanaged
Chelsea is proof that not only the premier league but all leagues in europe need caps on the length of contracts they can give out to players, there is almost no reason to give someone a contract longer than 5 years.
A 5 year contract is crazy enough 😂 injuries can happen from anymore, and form is temporary, typically you sign a player or renew their contract when they're in peak form ; the chances of there being deterioration after an initial purple patch is far greater than any form of improvement.. the problems of modern football are created by the lack of coaching, good coaches don't need a transfer budget, they need a field and a ball.. 3 year contracts for key players and 2-3 for everyone else makes sense... everything else is madness and 100% gambling and/or laundering
The PL have already made changes that discourage contracts longer than 5 years. This was to plug the loophole Chelsea used to remain compliant after their 1 billion spending spree
@@RanjanManoharyeah, what PL did is that even the player contract is more than 5 year, club can only amortized the transfer fee max 5 year. Thats why I so confused why chelsea keep giving those long contract, lol
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I think referring to the PL as being '20-years behind' commercialisation of US sports is not the best framing - US sports are an almost entirely commercial enterprise that isn't rooted in community and treats it's fans almost entirely like customers. As bad as the PL can be in that respect, I'd says it's a good thing to be 'behind' that level of craven hyper-capitalism.
When it comes to RA's Chelsea, people often overlook just how many of Chelsea's league-winning (LEAGUE-WINNING) players were signed by Mourinho. Chelsea's most notable league-winning "non-Mourinho" signings: Cech, Robben, Hazard, Azpilicueta, Courtois, Kante Pretty much every other key player in Chelsea's league-winning teams was a Mourinho signing. PS Younger football fans, I know Cech and Robben arrived in summer 2004, but I remember waking up and reading about Cech and Robben signing for Chelsea in January 2004... Months before Mourinho ran down the touchline at Old Trafford, won the treble with Porto and joined the Chelsea.
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I'd love to hear anyone say anything about Chelsea now on the 29th Sep as they sit 4th after man u has been thrashed by spurs and waiting for a sponsorship deal from Qatar airways
Just today Maresca came out fussing about the sheer number of players in the team, saying that he works with 21 players. The others are basically dead to him
How dare they question the football management of Romans reign, we actually won things and played in Europe every season. These clowns have no idea what they’re doing and have sucked the soul out of the club.
Re the shirt sponsor, Chelsea seem to be forgetting once they qualify for the Chmapions League and look to sign a long term high value deal, what's to stop potential sponsors from telling them we will offer less than the top teams as you are no longer a CL regular?
For any other Club that kind of missmanagement would be back breaking. For Chealsea, its just another Tuesday. Seriously the comment of the owner u showed at the beginning tells u everyhting u need to know. Like roughly around 40% of all english clubs they are just a business. Not a club, not a team, just a business with consumers instead of fans.
Their contract situation is what I think will backfire the hardest. Going out and signing players like Caicedo and Lavia for similar positions on long term contracts will almost inevitably backfire when they can't offload them. It's great if they consistently perform together, horrific if they don't.
Chelsea have lost alot of good players recently due to their contracts running down (e.g.Mount, Rüdiger, Christensen, Tomori, Guehi). Long contacts make that less likely and spread the astronomical cost of Premier League level player over multiple financial years which keeps the accounts looking good.
It will not backfire, the problem with offloading players is high wages, there having lower wages on longer contracts will make it easier to sell them. Don't forget that Chelsea has the highest transfer money received in the league in 3 of the last 5 years
They've spent a ridiculous amount on new players and staff, and ludicrous amounts on absolute no name players. How do you spend that amount and have Robert Sanchez in goal??
I love the vids this is probably the most unbiased assessment of Chelsea I’ve seen. I just disagree on the Gallagher part because he was offered multiple contracts and clubs to go to but he declined, also he’s poor technically which doesn’t fit Maresca’s system
It's literally a lack of incentive to play good. They're offering 7+ year contracts with good pay, that's a good chunk of your career having job security. There's no pressure to play outstandingly well, and that's what's causing Chelsea to be so mediocre. Abramovich please come back!
2:45 Rather Ironically, when non-Chelsea fans point at Chelsea and laugh at their crazy owners, Todd Boehly, being the most high-profile of the BlueCo owners, is often the one blamed and ridiculed on the most. But when you scroll on Chelsea forums, Chelsea fans will be quick to correct you that Boehly is not as responsible as others will have you believe. Indeed, Boehly personally is only a minority stake owner. Instead, they will collectively point their fingers at Eghbali instead, saying he is the real culprit. I guess they're not wrong. This remark by Eghbali is perhaps why European football fans will forever hate American owners so much. THEY ONLY SEE FOOTBALL CLUBS AS A PROFIT-MAKING ASSET. Indeed, this is how sports franchises (franchises, not teams) operate in the ultra hyper-capitalistic US sports scene. While sports teams might have ties to a specific region, they could always be relocated to another city for the sole aim of filling the owner's pockets. Take the Dodgers in the MLB for example, relocated from Brooklyn to LA solely for profit in 1957. Or the proposed relocation of the Oakland Athletics from Oakland to Las Vegas, again, for profit, inevitably tearing up the US sports fabric. While this make US sports leagues filthy rich compared to European ones, they also tear up the social fabrics of cities. While I personally don't like this method, the US is too entrenched in this capitalistic system to go back. However, US investors in European sports teams must acknowledge: 1. European Teams are not merely cash cows. They are a crucial part of the social fabric of a city, a town, a neighbourhood or even a region. 2. Don't expect the ultra-capitalistic system of the US to function the way it does in Europe, it will not work. The Premier League, itself the most commercialized European football league, might fare alright under this system, but less commercialized leagues like LaLiga, Serie A and ESPECIALLY the Bundesliga and Ligue 1 simply does not buy your shock therapy. Girondins de Bordeaux has recently become the latest and largest victim of mismanagement under US ownership, and many will inevitably follow. How many more mistakes will these ownership regimes make?
Ironically the major sports leagues in the USA are less capitalistic/free market based (like football), and more socialist or communist in how they operate. Examples of this include equal revenue sharing for TV contracts across all teams, (NFL, NBA, etc.), having a draft where the worst team from the prior year selects first instead of having each team develop their own talent (like in football), and most critically having a closed league with no promotion/relegation! All very controlled to maximize profits for owners, while leaving consumers (fans) the least amount of say comparatively speaking.
@@kwanlinus6999 It's not capitalist protectionism if it's all within one country? Capitalist protectionism is used to place restrictions on international trade, whereas all of the American sports leagues are something completely different. They actively restrict and determine who and where the league operates regardless of capital available (think: Todd Boehly doesn't have to be approved by all of the Premier League owners to buy Chelsea, whereas in American sports, these owners must vote to allow new entrants). This is much more comparable to a command economy, however you care to portray it.
@@simonribeiro7630 no, protectionism can be internal as well, if a specific, established group's economic and business interests are protected by law through the limiting of participation from new actors.
the average nba salary is double the average premier league salary brother, nba money is different. nowhere but the nba do professional athletes get paid 20+ million dollars per year to not even play, just sit in the reserves because the teams have so much money to spend that they give out huge contracts to players that end up being so bad that it hurts the team for them to be on the court
its DISGUSTING how conor gallahger and chalobah are being treated despite being in the top 10 players in the squad, then you add sterling being seemingly frozen out in exchnage for 18 year old kids who havent played a single game of football at a high level. Think about how many actual stars or first team ready players they couldve bought and actually made that team able to fight for 4th. Chelsea will finish 7th this season if now lower and its a SHAM, dont support chelsea but i like the club truly believe they are meant for better then this
I agree. It's ABSOLUTELY disgusting how Pep treated legends like Eto'o and Ronaldinho and Henry and Yaya Toure and Joe Hart and Nasri and froze them to bring in young players like Pedro, Busquets, Sane, Ederson, etc. absolutely disgraceful. I would be surprised if they finish in the top 4
Some of what Chelsea is doing makes sense in isolation but when you add it all together it just doesn’t make sense. My big “conspiracy theory” is that it’s all financial, I’m a United fan and I know something we used to do was give contracts to shit players in the last year of their deals, not for football reasons but because you can mark these contracts down as assets. Which effects when you’re trying to get a loan or whatever. With the amount of players they’re getting in, and the length of the contracts, and the fact Clearlake are venture capitalists, my theory is the plan is to keep these players, you’ll have to get rid of some as you go, but basically keep it all topped up, make sure the players are locked down and then when the time expires on them not being able to sell, they can sell the club at a massively inflated value for huge profit.
from someone from a country that gets no coverage of the premier league on the regular chelsea and manchester united are supposed to be top in my head its absurd how both are in such ruins
As a Chelsea fan I'm mentally prepared for another season of chaos. It's like we're pretty much back to square one with a new manager and yet more players coming and going. On the bright side, Neto looked lively against City, so perhaps there's hope that the cash hasn't been entirely unnecessarily splashed. Gallagher going is a shame, but I'm not sure about Felix rejoining after his loan spell with Chelsea was, well, a bit underwhelming. I think we might still be overly dependent on Palmer at the moment though! The goalkeeper situation is surprising, I thought Petrovic did ok last season, he did effectively usurp Sanchez as no.1. Why is he looking surplus to requirements already? I'm looking forward to seeing how we go in the Conference League, assuming that we actually win the qualifying play-off and not treat it as a throwaway tie.
The butterfly effect leading to this Chelsea situation is nuts. This is all because someone in Russia started a war and some government in Europe decided to punish his loyalists. Uuurgh we miss Abramovich.
The arrogant owners are gonna learn the hard way. They know nothing about Football. Badmouthing the previous ownership which won every trophy available, only to stockpile more kids than a Kindergarten. 😂😂
0:40 either Enzo Maresca doesn't have social media, or he doesn't speak Spanish?! 🤔... or he probably agrees with Enzo Fernandez on that chant... Either way, it's a big PR nightmare for the club, especially in the era we're living in 😂😂😂😂
I did not know those quotes from when they bought the club “European sport is 20 years behind on the commercial side” they may as well leave now and get an nfl team then; they’re only in it for the dollar.
Nice video as always! Congrats on your sponsor! Is it your first ever or I missed something? Good transition also :)) Chelsea is fun to watch as a neutral. Just americans doing their thing I guess and teaching us poor europeans some good business. Looking forward to a 30 min Lil Pimp My Ride concert in the half-time break.
Congratulation for actually promoting a product, that I'd maybe even need. Sadly most sponserships are so far away from everyday use or sound scatchy as hell.
i thinl they will end up with a loft of players like psg did couple years back (kurzawa and co). players that got comfortable with their big wage small playing times. also often in football one injury can break a career, then they have a useless player for like 6-7 years on crazy wage. statistically with the amount of players and the length of contract this could very much happpen. i m not sure what they thinking
Maresca's comments about only working with about half the team, and that he doesn't care if players have 20 year contracts if they're not in his plans don't inspire confidence that they've got a clue what they're doing. But here's a thought experiment: make the players who are being frozen out their own squad, where do they finish in the EPL?
As a Liverpool fan ,Chelsea is kinda interesting. Liverpool has a tendency to sign too few players when they need to sign. Chelsea signs everyone they can throw money at. Which seems to not work out as often... Will be interesting to see how the table looks in a couple years. I'm honestly curious.
It’s weird how people are so certain this early on about something long term. Couple that with the predilection and miss information. I smell something. nice content btw
He was vice captain after Thiago Silva/ Conor last year. He’s always been a leader figure. They just want us to drop him from coz the controversy. Like how arteta did to xhaka. It doesn’t look well outside but the players apologised and are in terms so we aren’t feeding the story
When I looked at their matchday squad the other day I was shocked to find how many of them are just no name randos. There's something to be said for making stars over buying them, but if that's the case how have they spent so much?
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" so we need the capacity upped to 60,000"
" The stadium Todd? "
" No, the dressing room "
There is no room for Stamford bridge to go to 60 you’d probably know that if you’d ever been there you plastic supporter 😂
lmfao. how does this not have more likes😅😂
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i have seen enough , deduct everton 10 points immediately
Finally someone else that gets it!
@@FootballIconic 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Please not dyche😭
LMAO
Brilliant! 🤣
You could deduct everton 70 points and they'll survive with 38 (all) matches won, 44 points (after deductions), all ending with the score of 1-0, 0 shots at goal and 0% possesion for the opposing team. Dyche football gonna make the opposition physically sleep on the pitch
i saw somebody call man city vs chelsea 115 players vs 115 charges 💀💀
Why do you rival fans cry more about us than we the fans 😂
If Boehly himself will be coach of Chelsea then I would bet on him... Cmon with all respect to Guardiola but he never could've come up with 4 4 3 formation...
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@meentage There are like 20 of you but millions who support other clubs
@@bo4Eliteyeah 20 happy fans and a million salty people
The consistency of this channel is honestly incredible, looking forward to the videos throughout the season.
You haven't finished the video yet 😂
bro dont get too happy this brudda uploads consistently then leaves for 3 weeks. BTW you know im kidding Tinashe 😉
@@wolfmauler how tf is ur reply 8 hours ago while the parent comment is 6 hours ago?!
Chelsea doing the DiCaprio approach was not on my Bingo card
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I dont get it… Shutter Island?
Di caprio apparently doesn't date anyone older than 25@@nteta10k
When the new owners took over, all we really needed was a good goalkeeper and a world-class striker. 1.5 billion later, we still require those 2 things. Go figure.
MATE!!!!! But At least we did get a DM which we did need (Kanté injuries)
We were doomed the moment he fired the entire backroom staff.
We had a world class striker that the previous ownership bought and did what with him?
@@ammaarsafodienLukaku was never never world class
Americans...
they won CL and said nahhh never again
its pretty crazy that mere 2 years after that almost the entire team had been replaced.
@@fr0ntend not only the players, the entire club has been replaced from top to bottom
@@fr0ntend yep pretty much
@@senyorchillingits almost as if they are under new ownership
@@fr0ntendI don't think that is a good measure. If you imagine a squad with every player reaching the peak to help them win the UCL it makes sense to sell them either because they are worth a lot or they are only getting worse.
What Chelsea is doing makes sense in that Boehly also owns a baseball club and is basically trying to import what works there with prospect development, long term and (hopefully) team friendly contracts, and tight front office control over the organization. Conversely, it doesn't make sense since there's no telling if it can actually translate and so far they have not been a convincing test case.
Indeed. First Baseball doesn't ahve transfer fees and it's a static game, football flow, team integration etc matters. Also a number of PL teams and a LOT of European teams are still financially struggling after COVID, it's why Arsenal struggled to get money for the likes of Ozil and Abu.
His money, worth a try.
Actually usually teams take out loans from major finance institutions. Look up J.P. Morgan and football transfers (especially in the prem). So maybe he’s loading up debt who knows who’s responsible for paying or what the terms look like once debts aren’t paid.
@@danielebowman True, but it is a sport that often requires hundreds, if not more, of game reps for players to develop and get used to more advanced stages of the game, and it's there that I don't see how it can translate. Baseball teams, or at least the top leagues, have farm systems for their prospects while the closest thing football has to that is stuff like City Football Group.
@danielebowman biggest difference is number of game. Baseball has like 150+ games whilst football has like 50 with less opportunity to actually rotate players in the first place.
"I need to be able to see Antony do his spin move wherever I am in the world" 😭😭😭
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Those comments from Eghbali perfectly crystalize the entire situation at Chelsea. He wasn't totally wrong particularly on the commercial side of things, but it showed a complete misunderstanding of how football operates & unbelievable arrogance in thinking a US sports model could be transposed onto a football team & it'll work because "it's better".
The simplicity of Roman Abramovich's approach is the very reason why it worked SO well! You didn't need state of the art technology & 100 advisors to conclude Jose Mourinho (in 2004) is probably gunna elevate your club, and he didn't need fancy scouting tools to conclude Didier Drogba is probably gunna develop into a monstrous Premier League striker.
As Bill Shankly said, football is a simple game made complicated by idiots! If you genuinely care about owning a successful football club & you've got the money to make this a reality, you will own a successful football club IF you keep it simple - buy the best players you can, get the best manager you can & get all the facilities up to the best standards - that's it, and that's what Abramovich did. When you try getting cute like these clowns, you create a circus.
There is nothing wrong with a money ball approach using data instead of the Abramovich model of trying to outspend. Liverpool is one of the teams that rely heavily on analytics to dictate transfer strategies. Chelsea’s problem is their data sucks and they tried to shoehorn strategies that work for baseball into football.
you sound like all the baseball traditionalist did before billy beane and peter brand changed american sports forever
Brighton are the ones doing it. Chelsea on the other hand, are only mocking the process, stacking players below the age of 20 is not prudent, it is pedophilic though @@corbi_
@@fanpackers4 That, and they are not finding performance value in slightly flawed (= cheaper) young players. A 1.5$Billion net spend and wind up outside of the Top 4 is insane, or criminal or insanely criminal.
@@corbi_ You know that "Peter Brand" is a fictional name, right?
they have 8 goalkeepers
just saying
And they are starting the worst one and selling their best ones .
And still pick Robert Sanchez, christ
They acquired another one so it's a 9 goalkeeper now
Tinashe really got a sponsor this season before Chelsea did, good stuff man
If Chelsea don’t qualify for the Champions League for the next couple of years, is there a chance that they could end up like Leeds did in the 00’s?
I ask this question as their scattergun approach to signings, seems even more reckless than Ridsdale era Leeds?!
In fact, their approach makes Ridsdale’s look as sensible and measured as Brighton or Brentford.
If one thing Chelsea do well is offloading players. They will buy lots of players for 10-20m maybe even 30m, loan them multiple of times, maybe get close to first team then sell them for 5-20m profit. This offsets the losses from the star buys.
You only need about 3 per season for this to work as decent revenue from elsewhere.
It's obvious the president knows nothing about running a football club this is precisely why Florentino Perez is so successful he is a businessman and he knows ball not to mention he grew up being a huge fan of the sport and a huge fan of Real Madrid he runs Real Madrid like a business which is why as of August 2024 Real Madrid remain the #1 most valuable and successful club in the world and this is according to Forbes other club presidents could learn from him
Bros from a country where football is played with helmets and shoulder pads 😭 give him some time
@@Bluespark-v9xand cockblockers 💀
As Much as I don't like Madrid, I'd have to agree that Madrid's business strategies are very good
@@Sam__The__Slayer that's why they remain #1 Perez runs it like a business which is why they're so successful he's all about making as much money as possible
the loan player farm made sense, mudryk for 100 mil does not
Of course it doesn't, because he was bought for 62 fvckin mil. Mudryk is the ONLY person who consistently has his add-ons added to his transfer fee.
@@danensosnore9011 40 mil bonuses and add ons?? yeah they lost their entire brain
@@danensosnore9011 i didnt know that, but even at 62 mil its still a weird financial move if the plan was to sell him on in the future. The margins for profit start to look thin.
Enzo fernandez having the captain's armband after everything that happened is perfect
No
Tbh with all that’s going on, Enzos bus video is the most overblown event that happened.
Imagine being butthurt to say the truth
@@chombus2602it’s not the truth, players should have the right to play for the country they are born and raised in, regardless of their parent’s nationality.
I agree that he shouldn't of had the armband, but also it has been blown out of proportion. First of all, why is it only Enzo getting the blame, when it was the whole squad chanting it. If anything, I'm more at ease that he was the one filming it and not someone who was intentionally trying to hide the fact that they were singing this song, as it means that he probably genuinely didn't think the song was racist or he wouldn't have filmed it in the first place.
Secondly, if people like Fofana, Disasi and the players who were affected by this song are happy with him again, then I can't really have an issue with him.
I want special rules for Chelsea this season. They’re not allowed any substitutions during game play and must play 11 different players in both halves.
They say Europeans are 20 years behind US sports in commercialization but US sports are 100 years behind winning and knowing how to actually run a club
The Henry's of Liverpool would like to have a word...
The way the leagues operate have almost zero similarities so running a successful team has completely different definitions, I guess they’re trying a more American approach but so far it’s not working here even if it does work in the US.
all they do is run franchise. They tank for good prospects.
@@samitpaudel7886and here you just have to buy them
"run a club"
Good few at top but ignore the debt ridden one at lower places
3:05 It's worth noting though, that since every NBA franchise is basically the best team in a state in the US the size of countries in Europe, then, it's like comparing the each NBA to the sum of the Bundesliga or Ligue 1, etc.
plus, the nba is a legitimate outlier when it comes to salaries. nfl and mlb salary values are roughly equivalent to football players, and nhl players genuinely seem broke in comparison to everyone else
Y’all keep talking about the amount the players make. How much do sports exec make, let alone the dividends to the owner for just owning? Every dollar lebron makes, the lakers owners make like 4. Not to mention they shield the team from personal liability, so they can take loans with the team as a collateral, and the teams losses they don’t have to personally take out. So a team is a piggy bank. And as we see, also an instrument of money laundering.
@@The_capital_groupexactly, people always complain about athletes being overpaid but in reality they’re still only being paid a fraction of what the actual league/owners are making. with that said they still make way too much but there’s a good reason for it
@@stenstensson304 yeah, you can say they make way too much with respect to the state of society. But we should first point our frustration at the owners who just hire people and take out money, than the athletes who have dedicated their whole lives to this, and who we want to see play.
@@pakpaksugar5194ummm what? lol you might wanna look at NFL/MLB salaries 🤣🤣🤣 your best argument is NFL salaries aren’t guaranteed. Otherwise, athletes in both sports just make much more than even in the EPL
Americans came in and criticised Russian for his incompetence and how Chelsea isn't on standards of the US teams...
Can't qualify for European football, can't standardise manager, can't keep dressing room happy, fit and reasonable numbers, can't make proper investments in the club....
Yeah... Americans trying to run European football club is pure idiocy
You know bigger is always better.
Everyone knows the more player a club buyes, the better it is.
6:45 Happy to confirm that is factual. I feel, at minimum, 20% less anxious this season, hearing an Italian accent in press conferences again. Vialli, Ranieri, Ancelloti, Di Matteo, Conte, Sarri. We love Italians ❤ 🇮🇹
what happened to Di Matteo? Why did he fade into obscurity after the Champions League?
@@MrBasketville he was never a good manager, just a freak run in the CL
@MrBasketville I'd agree with the other comment. I don't think Di matteo ever had it in him to be a top-level manager. The league campaign following the Champions League win showed that to a degree. It's still a fairy tale that he won it months after taking over mid way through the season. It added to the magic of it all. I also loved that it kept the tradition going of Italian managers winning trophies at Chelsea. Almost every Italian manager we've had has won at least one trophy at the club. I don't know what the connection is, but it's hard to deny.
@@MrBasketville he won the biggest prize in european football, so what else is there to win
Zola
Chelsea have already implemented the youth gathering, loaning out and or benching youth with high prospects in the past...and they lost them to rivals on the island or in Europe. De Bruyne being the top player. Rinse and repeat is going to be a bad look for them.
seems Chelsea knew each other’s names today. how did united, with their beautiful shirt sponsor, do this weekend?
🤭
As every day goes by I’m loving this video more and more
Sincerely,
A Chelsea fan
It will eventually work out in the long run, but only after management learns some lessons about continuity and giving players, coaches, and systems time to grow. Probably 6 years down the road they win a title with a backbone purchased during this era, but that still won't mean they were doing it the right way. What that will really show is the power of money, even when mismanaged
Chelsea is proof that not only the premier league but all leagues in europe need caps on the length of contracts they can give out to players, there is almost no reason to give someone a contract longer than 5 years.
No? As much as i dont like it why would you change it, its the players agreeing these contracts
A 5 year contract is crazy enough 😂 injuries can happen from anymore, and form is temporary, typically you sign a player or renew their contract when they're in peak form ; the chances of there being deterioration after an initial purple patch is far greater than any form of improvement.. the problems of modern football are created by the lack of coaching, good coaches don't need a transfer budget, they need a field and a ball.. 3 year contracts for key players and 2-3 for everyone else makes sense... everything else is madness and 100% gambling and/or laundering
@@tmithoth8956 laugh
The PL have already made changes that discourage contracts longer than 5 years. This was to plug the loophole Chelsea used to remain compliant after their 1 billion spending spree
@@RanjanManoharyeah, what PL did is that even the player contract is more than 5 year, club can only amortized the transfer fee max 5 year. Thats why I so confused why chelsea keep giving those long contract, lol
Finally got the daughter to sleep Missus is at gym I just made the best french fries with a shiton hamburgers and a whole 2 liters of Sprite and look who decides to drop another banger, dont mind if I do Tinashe dont mind at all sir.
A what burger?
@@jackprice4959 haha beat me to it
so your wife is healthy and you're not
@@imranxalaminlife is about quality not quantity.
Lay off the soda fam, you’re killing yourself slow.
I think referring to the PL as being '20-years behind' commercialisation of US sports is not the best framing - US sports are an almost entirely commercial enterprise that isn't rooted in community and treats it's fans almost entirely like customers. As bad as the PL can be in that respect, I'd says it's a good thing to be 'behind' that level of craven hyper-capitalism.
Welcome to Chelsea
When it comes to RA's Chelsea, people often overlook just how many of Chelsea's league-winning (LEAGUE-WINNING) players were signed by Mourinho.
Chelsea's most notable league-winning "non-Mourinho" signings: Cech, Robben, Hazard, Azpilicueta, Courtois, Kante
Pretty much every other key player in Chelsea's league-winning teams was a Mourinho signing.
PS Younger football fans, I know Cech and Robben arrived in summer 2004, but I remember waking up and reading about Cech and Robben signing for Chelsea in January 2004... Months before Mourinho ran down the touchline at Old Trafford, won the treble with Porto and joined the Chelsea.
Anyone here after 6-2?
Feeling really sick right now and these videos are helping me keep it together, you strike the perfect balance in terms of knowledge, humor and you have a really soothing voice if I'm honest. Keep them vids coming!
Chelsea has managed to defy all expectations when it comes to what’s possible with money. I feel a lot better about my spending.
4:22 😅 I was whoa my guy's got sponsor noice
I'd love to hear anyone say anything about Chelsea now on the 29th Sep as they sit 4th after man u has been thrashed by spurs and waiting for a sponsorship deal from Qatar airways
I would buy a kit for the first time in years if my team didnt have a stupid sponsor on the front
Me too. I ain't giving Emirates free advertising
The circus continues with more clowns and tragedies. Nice video. Keep up the good work.
Clearlake should have bought an agency rather than a football club, they are clearly more interested in the business of player contracts than football
Its pretty bold of Chelsea to place the smoke of the substance they're high on when negotiating contracts on the shirt. Kudos to them I suppose.
Just today Maresca came out fussing about the sheer number of players in the team, saying that he works with 21 players. The others are basically dead to him
How dare they question the football management of Romans reign, we actually won things and played in Europe every season. These clowns have no idea what they’re doing and have sucked the soul out of the club.
Nicolás Jackson is Everton level player. Their best player is Palmer. That’s it😂
Re the shirt sponsor, Chelsea seem to be forgetting once they qualify for the Chmapions League and look to sign a long term high value deal, what's to stop potential sponsors from telling them we will offer less than the top teams as you are no longer a CL regular?
This video aged like milk
Does it makes sense now after 6:2 to wolves
My go-to channel for football related stuff. Love your videos, mate.
This is what happens when you give a FM player the reigns of a club
For any other Club that kind of missmanagement would be back breaking. For Chealsea, its just another Tuesday.
Seriously the comment of the owner u showed at the beginning tells u everyhting u need to know. Like roughly around 40% of all english clubs they are just a business. Not a club, not a team, just a business with consumers instead of fans.
Their contract situation is what I think will backfire the hardest. Going out and signing players like Caicedo and Lavia for similar positions on long term contracts will almost inevitably backfire when they can't offload them. It's great if they consistently perform together, horrific if they don't.
No
Chelsea have lost alot of good players recently due to their contracts running down (e.g.Mount, Rüdiger, Christensen, Tomori, Guehi). Long contacts make that less likely and spread the astronomical cost of Premier League level player over multiple financial years which keeps the accounts looking good.
It will not backfire, the problem with offloading players is high wages, there having lower wages on longer contracts will make it easier to sell them. Don't forget that Chelsea has the highest transfer money received in the league in 3 of the last 5 years
Well this aged well 🤭
I was a fan of chelsea since Drogba... now all my liverpool fan friends laugh at me
You and I both, but we'll figure it out
Give it a year bro Salam leaving, Trent leaving, vvd getting old, they’ll be in their banter era soon
Chelsea will never be a bigger team than Liverpool in your lifetime
@@theredstonemechanic6838 you don't understand Liverpool fans at all 😂
It's a disgrace
I personally love your content bro.
I really love it.
Keep up man
They've spent a ridiculous amount on new players and staff, and ludicrous amounts on absolute no name players. How do you spend that amount and have Robert Sanchez in goal??
What a channel lad, serious operator!!
I love the vids this is probably the most unbiased assessment of Chelsea I’ve seen. I just disagree on the Gallagher part because he was offered multiple contracts and clubs to go to but he declined, also he’s poor technically which doesn’t fit Maresca’s system
Do they not know you can have a clause in the contract that if you make the champions league you pay more??? 😂😂😂
Serious commitment to the Glasgow Ranger of London bit.
4:08 It was a great transition 🙌
1:40 "never qualify for champions league" bro we just not participating in CL for 1 season lol
Just became your grammar skills can’t interpret what he said doesn’t make it wrong.
It's literally a lack of incentive to play good. They're offering 7+ year contracts with good pay, that's a good chunk of your career having job security. There's no pressure to play outstandingly well, and that's what's causing Chelsea to be so mediocre.
Abramovich please come back!
Adidas went mad loco with the 3rd kits
2:45 Rather Ironically, when non-Chelsea fans point at Chelsea and laugh at their crazy owners, Todd Boehly, being the most high-profile of the BlueCo owners, is often the one blamed and ridiculed on the most.
But when you scroll on Chelsea forums, Chelsea fans will be quick to correct you that Boehly is not as responsible as others will have you believe. Indeed, Boehly personally is only a minority stake owner. Instead, they will collectively point their fingers at Eghbali instead, saying he is the real culprit. I guess they're not wrong.
This remark by Eghbali is perhaps why European football fans will forever hate American owners so much.
THEY ONLY SEE FOOTBALL CLUBS AS A PROFIT-MAKING ASSET.
Indeed, this is how sports franchises (franchises, not teams) operate in the ultra hyper-capitalistic US sports scene. While sports teams might have ties to a specific region, they could always be relocated to another city for the sole aim of filling the owner's pockets.
Take the Dodgers in the MLB for example, relocated from Brooklyn to LA solely for profit in 1957. Or the proposed relocation of the Oakland Athletics from Oakland to Las Vegas, again, for profit, inevitably tearing up the US sports fabric.
While this make US sports leagues filthy rich compared to European ones, they also tear up the social fabrics of cities. While I personally don't like this method, the US is too entrenched in this capitalistic system to go back.
However, US investors in European sports teams must acknowledge:
1. European Teams are not merely cash cows. They are a crucial part of the social fabric of a city, a town, a neighbourhood or even a region.
2. Don't expect the ultra-capitalistic system of the US to function the way it does in Europe, it will not work.
The Premier League, itself the most commercialized European football league, might fare alright under this system, but less commercialized leagues like LaLiga, Serie A and ESPECIALLY the Bundesliga and Ligue 1 simply does not buy your shock therapy.
Girondins de Bordeaux has recently become the latest and largest victim of mismanagement under US ownership, and many will inevitably follow. How many more mistakes will these ownership regimes make?
Ironically the major sports leagues in the USA are less capitalistic/free market based (like football), and more socialist or communist in how they operate. Examples of this include equal revenue sharing for TV contracts across all teams, (NFL, NBA, etc.), having a draft where the worst team from the prior year selects first instead of having each team develop their own talent (like in football), and most critically having a closed league with no promotion/relegation! All very controlled to maximize profits for owners, while leaving consumers (fans) the least amount of say comparatively speaking.
@@simonribeiro7630 I don't think Americans understand what socialism is
@@simonribeiro7630 in your mind, Socialism and Capitalist Protectionism is somehow the same thing
@@kwanlinus6999 It's not capitalist protectionism if it's all within one country? Capitalist protectionism is used to place restrictions on international trade, whereas all of the American sports leagues are something completely different. They actively restrict and determine who and where the league operates regardless of capital available (think: Todd Boehly doesn't have to be approved by all of the Premier League owners to buy Chelsea, whereas in American sports, these owners must vote to allow new entrants). This is much more comparable to a command economy, however you care to portray it.
@@simonribeiro7630 no, protectionism can be internal as well, if a specific, established group's economic and business interests are protected by law through the limiting of participation from new actors.
I Googled the average NBA player annual salary. They seem pretty comparable with Premier League players.
the average nba salary is double the average premier league salary brother, nba money is different. nowhere but the nba do professional athletes get paid 20+ million dollars per year to not even play, just sit in the reserves because the teams have so much money to spend that they give out huge contracts to players that end up being so bad that it hurts the team for them to be on the court
its DISGUSTING how conor gallahger and chalobah are being treated despite being in the top 10 players in the squad, then you add sterling being seemingly frozen out in exchnage for 18 year old kids who havent played a single game of football at a high level. Think about how many actual stars or first team ready players they couldve bought and actually made that team able to fight for 4th. Chelsea will finish 7th this season if now lower and its a SHAM, dont support chelsea but i like the club truly believe they are meant for better then this
7th is generous
I agree. It's ABSOLUTELY disgusting how Pep treated legends like Eto'o and Ronaldinho and Henry and Yaya Toure and Joe Hart and Nasri and froze them to bring in young players like Pedro, Busquets, Sane, Ederson, etc. absolutely disgraceful. I would be surprised if they finish in the top 4
All the nonsensical decisions has got to have created a toxic work environment..
Some of what Chelsea is doing makes sense in isolation but when you add it all together it just doesn’t make sense.
My big “conspiracy theory” is that it’s all financial, I’m a United fan and I know something we used to do was give contracts to shit players in the last year of their deals, not for football reasons but because you can mark these contracts down as assets. Which effects when you’re trying to get a loan or whatever.
With the amount of players they’re getting in, and the length of the contracts, and the fact Clearlake are venture capitalists, my theory is the plan is to keep these players, you’ll have to get rid of some as you go, but basically keep it all topped up, make sure the players are locked down and then when the time expires on them not being able to sell, they can sell the club at a massively inflated value for huge profit.
Loving how many videos we are getting 🙏
It was a good transition mate 🔥🔥
Love that ajax kit. It's 2nd to the bob Marley kit for me
from someone from a country that gets no coverage of the premier league on the regular chelsea and manchester united are supposed to be top in my head its absurd how both are in such ruins
As a Chelsea fan I'm mentally prepared for another season of chaos. It's like we're pretty much back to square one with a new manager and yet more players coming and going. On the bright side, Neto looked lively against City, so perhaps there's hope that the cash hasn't been entirely unnecessarily splashed. Gallagher going is a shame, but I'm not sure about Felix rejoining after his loan spell with Chelsea was, well, a bit underwhelming. I think we might still be overly dependent on Palmer at the moment though! The goalkeeper situation is surprising, I thought Petrovic did ok last season, he did effectively usurp Sanchez as no.1. Why is he looking surplus to requirements already?
I'm looking forward to seeing how we go in the Conference League, assuming that we actually win the qualifying play-off and not treat it as a throwaway tie.
The butterfly effect leading to this Chelsea situation is nuts. This is all because someone in Russia started a war and some government in Europe decided to punish his loyalists. Uuurgh we miss Abramovich.
On that note, it would be really interesting that hear Romans thoughts on what's happening to his baby
The arrogant owners are gonna learn the hard way. They know nothing about Football. Badmouthing the previous ownership which won every trophy available, only to stockpile more kids than a Kindergarten. 😂😂
0:40 either Enzo Maresca doesn't have social media, or he doesn't speak Spanish?! 🤔... or he probably agrees with Enzo Fernandez on that chant... Either way, it's a big PR nightmare for the club, especially in the era we're living in 😂😂😂😂
I did not know those quotes from when they bought the club “European sport is 20 years behind on the commercial side” they may as well leave now and get an nfl team then; they’re only in it for the dollar.
I usually skip the ad but well played...thought it worth the watch😅😂
Nice video as always! Congrats on your sponsor! Is it your first ever or I missed something?
Good transition also :))
Chelsea is fun to watch as a neutral. Just americans doing their thing I guess and teaching us poor europeans some good business. Looking forward to a 30 min Lil Pimp My Ride concert in the half-time break.
Congratulation for actually promoting a product, that I'd maybe even need.
Sadly most sponserships are so far away from everyday use or sound scatchy as hell.
Madness? This is Chelsea! Shout out to Leonidas.
Fair
Top drawer content! Keep it up mate! 🤍🐓
Best of luck in fpl manager this season guys!
You were really funny in this one man 😂
Chelsea= "different season,same story" .... Yeah this video definitely did NOT age well😂
i thinl they will end up with a loft of players like psg did couple years back (kurzawa and co). players that got comfortable with their big wage small playing times. also often in football one injury can break a career, then they have a useless player for like 6-7 years on crazy wage. statistically with the amount of players and the length of contract this could very much happpen. i m not sure what they thinking
"Everybody's doing it" I almost choked on my breadfruit. 😂😂😂
You are forgetting all the sales we make as well
Love the Ajax jersey bro ❌❌❌
As always I love the content bro ❤ (I’m an American Ajax fan🤞🏼)
That ad transition took me out. Knew you were about to do some mischievous act when you made that face lol
What happened at 4:24?
Great as always dude thank you 🙏
That was a good transition
Maresca's comments about only working with about half the team, and that he doesn't care if players have 20 year contracts if they're not in his plans don't inspire confidence that they've got a clue what they're doing. But here's a thought experiment: make the players who are being frozen out their own squad, where do they finish in the EPL?
As a Liverpool fan ,Chelsea is kinda interesting. Liverpool has a tendency to sign too few players when they need to sign. Chelsea signs everyone they can throw money at. Which seems to not work out as often... Will be interesting to see how the table looks in a couple years. I'm honestly curious.
It’s weird how people are so certain this early on about something long term. Couple that with the predilection and miss information. I smell something. nice content btw
Why do you guys think Enzo doesn't deserve to be captain. I've had enough of this shit
He was vice captain after Thiago Silva/ Conor last year. He’s always been a leader figure. They just want us to drop him from coz the controversy. Like how arteta did to xhaka. It doesn’t look well outside but the players apologised and are in terms so we aren’t feeding the story
I love this club so much but we honestly I've accepted that it's now a midtable club... It has no direction at all, headless chicken club...
Love this channel, you are a legend 🎉
Along with Lukaku, I keep forgetting that Kepa is still at the club too
When I looked at their matchday squad the other day I was shocked to find how many of them are just no name randos. There's something to be said for making stars over buying them, but if that's the case how have they spent so much?