“More of the same” – Crazy Chelsea spending could go for “the next two years.” | OneFootball

Miguel Delaney’s piece about Chelsea’s “obscene” January spending is an interesting read, but rather than the moralising about how our £300m+ spending is bad for the game of football, we’re more interested in some of the concrete revelations at the bottom.

There has been a sense that the spending of this summer and this January were a necessary part of the take over as the new owners looked to get our squad back to where it needed to be to compete at the top, and that it would ease off now we’ve refreshed the first XI.

But it could be the opposite – Delaney claims that our owners see this spending on players as an investment on their asset, and that “the next two years will see more of the same lavish transfer business.”

It’s a scary thought for other teams, and for anyone at Chelsea not currently pulling their weight on the playing side. This could just be the start.