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looks at Tod Boehly’s exuberant spending this month and, simply speaking, tries to figure out what the thought process is. Pumping more money than most of the big leagues in Europe combined into one sole London club doesn’t scream solid investing, yet Chelsea’s American owners continue to hoard talent at whatever the cost. Time will be the ultimate judge of that strategy.
“We’re trying hard. Are we going to expose more players than we would in championship? Yeah. But the games are competitive. I’ve yet to see teams going out saying ‘Ah we’ll just try out twenty players’. We wanted to win that. They wanted to win that.” Davy Fitzgerald doesn’t like it when you say ‘Fitzgerald’s team, Waterford, one the league last year only to disappoint in the championship, something that was used as a case in point by the anti-leaguers’ argument against the very point of it.
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