The preliminary diversionary opening skirmishes out of the way, jose mourinho has turned his guns on his miserly owners and their dreams of seeing their incredibly expensive youth academy eventually bear fruit.
in short, players don't need games to show what they can do, or find their feet. They only need 10 minutes. Given that he's sent brown and solanke off on loan to vitesse, bamford to palace, and has publicly balled out loftus cheek, the unspoken line here is that these players don't seem to have it. the only one he praises is Zouma, who was signed for a lot of money, and was last seen doing This
Then he complains that even small clubs can buy players who could play for chelsea, while chelsea have bought no new players.
oh And if kevin de Bruyne signs for man city and turns out to be really good, he only sold him because he wasn't prepared to compete with a good player for his place. same for that mata, that lukaku and that schurrle.
Now There's a couple of things going on here. Mourinho has had a lot of money to spend at chelsea. He had £110 million to spend on new signings in each of his first two seasons. That's a hell of a lot of money to reshape your team, particularly when you're funding it almost entirely by getting rid of players you don't want.
the thing is that they've only spent £12 million this year on begovic as back up keeper, and Nathan, a 19 year old brazillian who is off to vitesse. So far, so 2006-7.
why the sudden fall of in spending? chelsea are in great financial nick. They've just won the league, they've spent very little net over the last two year and generated a lot of money in cash.
What we've seen happen broadly speaking is that mourinho has spent a lot of money on assembling a very tough first XI, and he chews up and spits out all the expensive players they have as squad players. They get sold on for huge sums of money
mourinho wants them to spend more money this summer, but it's not clear on who? Should they buy another striker? They already sent bamford out on loan to palace, and instead signed the decrepid Falcao on loan, at enormous cost.
Should they sign another winger, given that they just signed cuadrado six months ago? Should they sign another central midfielder, when they already have fabregas and matic, and they have loftus cheek coming along to provide cover. (and what about mikel and ramires) They're probably going to sign another left back, to replace luis, and maybe a centre half.
What exactly is jose bitching about?
Is he simply engaging in a low temperature public war with his bosses, like back at the very start, when he fielded a team with no strikers at old trafford, because he claimed he had no strikers.
Or in the cold light of Diego Costa's continuing problems, is he beginning to regret making the signing of falcao his wedding gift to Jorge Mendes. Is he basically getting his excuses in first, and trying to direct any blame that is coming down the tracks onto a generalized lack of investment, effectively saying that everyone in the league is buying chelsea players except chelsea?
Even if the actual individual events aren't going to be particularly interesting, and are going to have a lot of tiresome nonsense around them, it will be very interesting to watch how things unfold over the season. If he's still effectively making his displeasure at his budget known like this at the start of the third season, it's clear that there are a lot of tensions behind the scenes, and that means a lot of battles that jose is going to feel that he needs to win.
in short, players don't need games to show what they can do, or find their feet. They only need 10 minutes. Given that he's sent brown and solanke off on loan to vitesse, bamford to palace, and has publicly balled out loftus cheek, the unspoken line here is that these players don't seem to have it. the only one he praises is Zouma, who was signed for a lot of money, and was last seen doing This
Then he complains that even small clubs can buy players who could play for chelsea, while chelsea have bought no new players.
oh And if kevin de Bruyne signs for man city and turns out to be really good, he only sold him because he wasn't prepared to compete with a good player for his place. same for that mata, that lukaku and that schurrle.
Now There's a couple of things going on here. Mourinho has had a lot of money to spend at chelsea. He had £110 million to spend on new signings in each of his first two seasons. That's a hell of a lot of money to reshape your team, particularly when you're funding it almost entirely by getting rid of players you don't want.
the thing is that they've only spent £12 million this year on begovic as back up keeper, and Nathan, a 19 year old brazillian who is off to vitesse. So far, so 2006-7.
why the sudden fall of in spending? chelsea are in great financial nick. They've just won the league, they've spent very little net over the last two year and generated a lot of money in cash.
What we've seen happen broadly speaking is that mourinho has spent a lot of money on assembling a very tough first XI, and he chews up and spits out all the expensive players they have as squad players. They get sold on for huge sums of money
mourinho wants them to spend more money this summer, but it's not clear on who? Should they buy another striker? They already sent bamford out on loan to palace, and instead signed the decrepid Falcao on loan, at enormous cost.
Should they sign another winger, given that they just signed cuadrado six months ago? Should they sign another central midfielder, when they already have fabregas and matic, and they have loftus cheek coming along to provide cover. (and what about mikel and ramires) They're probably going to sign another left back, to replace luis, and maybe a centre half.
What exactly is jose bitching about?
Is he simply engaging in a low temperature public war with his bosses, like back at the very start, when he fielded a team with no strikers at old trafford, because he claimed he had no strikers.
Or in the cold light of Diego Costa's continuing problems, is he beginning to regret making the signing of falcao his wedding gift to Jorge Mendes. Is he basically getting his excuses in first, and trying to direct any blame that is coming down the tracks onto a generalized lack of investment, effectively saying that everyone in the league is buying chelsea players except chelsea?
Even if the actual individual events aren't going to be particularly interesting, and are going to have a lot of tiresome nonsense around them, it will be very interesting to watch how things unfold over the season. If he's still effectively making his displeasure at his budget known like this at the start of the third season, it's clear that there are a lot of tensions behind the scenes, and that means a lot of battles that jose is going to feel that he needs to win.
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