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Paqueta going for around 90M. He's a fucking discount Lo Celso for fucks sake... Madness.

Pep going for Physicality and technical ability in Paqueta and leaving out Foden from his teams tells you how he will setup his teams and generally how football will fare going forward seeing as everyone tends to copy Pep.
 
Since the arrival of Boehly about 20 months ago, Chelsea have spent 800m and bought 20 players. I have never seen anything like it, even from the oligarch teams.

I know they’ve stretch the contracts but surely there’s going to be an FFP issue? They haven’t even got CL revenue, massively inflated sponsorship or big stadium.
 
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I know they’ve stretch the contracts but surely there’s going to be an FFP issue?
There's absolutely FFP issues. The whole theory is that FFP room should be treated like salary cap space in American sports and that long contracts of club control for talented youngsters maximize the use of that flexibility.

Completely ignoring the volatility of those assets and fit with each other, the club, the manager, it's a very very stupid plan.

Poch is a fairly shrewd choice to helm such a project, but it might go very wrong very quickly and will be hard to sustain for long in any event.
 
There's absolutely FFP issues. The whole theory is that FFP room should be treated like salary cap space in American sports and that long contracts of club control for talented youngsters maximize the use of that flexibility.

Completely ignoring the volatility of those assets and fit with each other, the club, the manager, it's a very very stupid plan.

Poch is a fairly shrewd choice to helm such a project, but it might go very wrong very quickly and will be hard to sustain for long in any event.

Yeah, even ignoring FFP, in normal circumstances you would expect this strategy to be biting them in the arse in the not to distant future, then the fucking Saudi life raft sailed I to port.
 
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