the Chelsea News
·28 March 2024
the Chelsea News
·28 March 2024
The CIES Football Observatory have capped off the international break with an interesting graphic comparing the average age of players recruited in the last 5 years compared to the 5 years before that.
Chelsea are 5th in the table, but the whole league is trending younger, with only 7 teams having signed older, and only 2 teams older by more than a year on average.
You can see the whole league’s numbers in the graphic embedded here:
Our policy has clearly been pretty significant, but it’s interesting that we’re still only 5thin the league, and at -1.37 our average signing age has come down far less than table topping Brighton at -3.37.
But let’s remember this is a 2019 to 2014 average. If we keep up our same policy and redo it again to cover 2022 to 2026 in a few years, we will see ours plunging even more than Brighton.