There is a very big possibility that things will not gel at Chelsea with all the new top quality talent. What happens if they don't make a top 6 finish for example? Next season they'll have a lot of players who were playing in Europe spending a season with just a domestic focus.
Plus they have a lot of players who won't play or even be registered to play.
We recall the season that Cashley actually backed a manager unfortunately that manager was McClown. We had a great team that year and still went down. I doubt Chelsea will get relegated but I also don't see them making the top 4, Man-Not-Utd and NUFC are in form and ten points ahead of them, very difficult for them to catch us. Spurs are 7 points clear of them. All 3 clubs will have suffer terrible down turns in form to let Chelsea or the bin dips back in.
Fulham and Brentford buffer Brighton and Spuds below us. Perhaps they'll run out of legs over the next 18 games as is true to their form in recent years. However I just don't see Chelsea being a UCL team next year.
On the other hand, this Chelsea squad with no European football will be a major contender for the title next season next season as well as serious in the cups.
Time will tell if Potter can make it work, if the new owners stick with him, esp. with Mourinho commenting that he'd love to return to Chelsea under the new owners for a 3rd tour of duty.
I see that Leicester have found a way around FFP. Buy whoever with money “loaned” from the owners. Owners then wipe out the debt. Easy peasy!
CHELSEA have now set a NEW transfer spending record for the month of January of £290m. Next is Arsenal at £56m. This is on top of the of £270m spent in the last window, so do the maths !!!!!
This is a SMALL mid-table London club who struggle to get 40,000 crowds, yet the London-centric media NEVER criticise what this rotten club do each year. Potter will be sacked soon, that I have no doubt, as this clown show attempt to wave their dirty money at the next sucker to fill the seat.
They are making a complete mockery of these FFP rules. They should just be scrapped - completely worthless.
Agree with you 100% Tops.
More points dropped for Chelsea against Fulham.....they clearly need to start splashing some cash
I don’t expect much improvement from them this season, I do in the next one.