It will not be today but Chelsea will have to step away from the transfer roulette wheel eventually. And then what pressure will be on Graham Potter? twoht writes...
Chelsea are in 10th place in the table but are spending money like it’s going out of fashion. Is there a method behind a scattergun transfer policy?
And then there’s Chelsea. Few clubs in the history of the game have changed quite as much in quite as short a time as Chelsea over the last year or so. Over the course of less than 12 months, the club has come under new ownership, been on a summer spending splurge, replaced the manager and the backroom staff, and are now in the grip of a winter spending splurge that may even end up out-stripping their activity last time around.
Chelsea return to Premier League action at the weekend in 10th place, and having won just two league matches since the middle of October. They were eliminated from both domestic cups at the first attempt by Manchester City and although they’re still in this year’s Champions League, winning that competition might already be the most likely way they can qualify for a return.
But on the other end is the instant gratification culture of the 21st century. Fail to win a handful of games in 2023 and the chances are that pressure will start to build on the head coach, and that pressure doesn’t take long to reach a point at which even club owners who may have considered themselves a steadying hand on the club’s tiller could be spooked into jerking their knees, especially if criticism starts extending beyond the coaching staff and is targeted at the owners themselves.
But improvement on the pitch this season under Potter has been at best incremental. Four points from their last two games hints at a corner about to be turned, but their 1-0 win against Crystal Palace was less than inspiring while their goalless draw at Anfield against Liverpool looked like exactly what it was, a mid-season stalemate between two mid-table teams, neither of whom look particularly likely to trouble either the top or bottom ends of the Premier League table this season.
It was established from the outset that the club’s new owners were in for the long haul, and their spending since then seems to confirm this. But there will come a point at which Chelsea will have to step away from the transfer roulette wheel and focus on what they already have. In this season of transition they remain a work in progress, but it is absolutely unclear what they will transition into.
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