How Chelsea should have spent Todd Boehly's first €1bn on transfers
Sound the alarms, people - Todd Boehly and BlueCo's transfer expenditure while in charge of Chelsea has passed the €1bn mark. When they were handed the keys to Stamford Bridge in May 2022, the Blues were 12 months removed from winning the UEFA Champions League. You know, the top prize in club football. The number one reason these big clubs compete and spend huge sums of money in the first place. For whatever reason, Boehly and co. wanted to push forward with a plan to build a young team to dominate the next decade of football without realising that's not quite how this sport works. Of the 23 players that were part of Chelsea's matchday squad for their 2021 European triumph against Manchester City, just four remain - Thiago Silva, Reece James, Ben Chilwell and Callum Hudson-Odoi. Chelsea finished 12th in the Premier League last season before Boehly stumbled into one of his only bright decisions thus far - appointing Mauricio Pochettino as head coach. But if Boehly could go