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Joao Félix, Gabriel Slonina, Datro Fofana, Benoit Badiashile, Andrey Santos, Mykhailo Mudryk, Noni Madueke, Malo Gusto and Enzo Fernández have signed for Chelsea in this winter transfer window. Earlier, in the summer, Raheem Sterling, Kalidou Koulibaly, Carney Chukwuemeka, Marc Cucurella, Cesare Casadei, Wesley Fofana, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Denis Zakaria had arrived.
Except for a couple of them who have arrived on loan (Joao Félix and Denis Zakaria), most have transferred to the London club, which since the arrival of Todd Boehly has spent close to 700 million, specifically 640. Only in the winter market, Chelsea have spent 360 million euros.
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Los Blues They have broken all records in this market. Never had a club spent so much money in a season. Chelsea alone have spent more money than the rest of the major leagues combined (Bundesliga, LaLiga, Eredivisie, Serie A, Ligue 1 and Primeira Liga) in their bid to make up lost ground in the Premier League. Graham Potter’s team is ranked 10th with 29 points, 21 behind Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal, who leads with an iron fist a competition in which it is increasingly expensive to occupy the places that give access to European competition.
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Klopp’s irony at a press conference
This circumstance is not alien to the rest of the clubs of the so-called Big Six in England (Manchester City, Manchester United, Tottenham, Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal). This Friday, in the preview of the matches of day 22 of the Premier, both Jurgen Klopp and Pep Guardiola have been questioned about Chelsea’s winter spending. Klopp, the Liverpool coach, faces a situation similar to that of Potter’s Chelsea. 9th with 29 points, the reds are trying to find the regularity that will bring them closer to the Champions League positions next season. “I can’t say anything without having my lawyer in front of me,” the German coach responded when asked about this issue.
“Obviously I don’t know how it’s possible, I don’t understand this part of the business, I don’t know what can be done or what can’t be done. I don’t know how much a large amount is in a transfer market. They are big numbers and the players are all very good. I do not understand how this has been possible, but it is not my work to explain it”, has answered Klopp. While the Blues They have incorporated Joao Félix, Datro Fofana, Badiashile, Madueke, Enzo Fernández or Mudryk into their squad, the reds have ‘only’ signed Cody Gakpo, who signed an excellent World Cup in Qatar with the Netherlands, in exchange for 50 million euros .
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Guardiola remembers the past
The other Big Six coach who has been asked about Chelsea today has been Pep Guardiola. The City coach did not want to comment directly on Boehly’s activity in the transfer market, but he did want to highlight the double standards that he has perceived these days in the Premier League. “We have won eleven titles in the last five years, being the fifth or sixth team in net spending in the Premier League (…) What Chelsea does is not my concern. We need good players and Chelsea, the Arsenal, Liverpool and United also know it. Without good players you can’t compete. Neither here nor in Europe, that’s why you have to spend”, Guardiola added, to later leave a very clear message regarding the situation he experienced when he arrived at City from Bayern Munich. “We were accused. I don’t forget it. Eight or nine teams sent a letter to the Premier League to ban us from competing. That did not happen to us. And we are the fifth team in net spending in the last five years. That is the reality “, added Guardiola.
After a few years of heavy spending by Manchester City, the Sky Blues They registered a positive balance in the transfer market this summer. It is true that the club citizen Haaland arrived in exchange for 75 million this summer. Also Akanji, Sergi Gómez, Julián Álvarez or Kalvin Philipps. But he also recorded the departures of players like Raheem Sterling (precisely to Chelsea), Gabriel Jesús or Zinchenko. In this winter market, Guardiola’s men have only signed Perrone and have ‘suffered’ the departure of Joao Cancelo.
Félix, Mudryk and Enzo Fernández, enrolled in Champions
This Friday, Chelsea has announced which of the new players that it has incorporated into this market have been registered in the Champions League. The Blues They face Borussia Dortmund and have faced a momentous decision: not all new faces can be part of the London club’s European roster. Joao Félix, Mudryk and Enzo Fernández have been the three chosen by Graham Potter to enter a list from which former Barça player Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang falls out and which does not include others such as Badiashile, Madueke or Datro Fofana.
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