“Chelsea turns to youth development to revive club amidst financial losses”

The “blues” do not stop accumulating bad news this season and the accounts speak for themselves, red numbers. Faced with this situation, the quarry becomes an essential part of reviving any project.

Since the arrival of Todd Boehlyhe Chelsea it has become the team that has spent the most money in Europe. However, the results of this investment are not positive in the short term and they will not be so in the medium/long term, since the “blues” are not going to qualify for European competition and they are not going to get any title for their showcases this season . This leads the American tycoon to hardly receive any income, which is a financial catastrophe for any institution.

For this reason, faced with this very poor situation, the London team is beginning to look for a solution in grassroots football. The first signing of the lower categories was Andrey Santoswho stayed on loan in the Vasco da Gama until the end of the season. After investing in the Brazilian, Jim Fraserdirector of the youth academy Chelseafished in Ecuador to take Wise Paeza 15-year-old Ecuadorian militant in Valley Independent.

The last to arrive has been Alex Matos, an English winger who can play on both sides and even in attacking interior positions. The youth squad of Norwich arrives, according to the journalist Fabricius Roman, at zero cost. At 18 years old, he arrives with the necessary desire to grow in a club that needs its youngsters to revive the project.

All these youngsters arrive to strengthen the subsidiary, but the context of constant financial losses suggests that the youth system will be essential in the development of the London club in the coming years.

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