They seem to be building the world's most expensive youth team. Is their owner expecting to develop them and sell them all on at a profit? Surely he doesn't think that they're going to win him trophies. I'm sure that the Chelsea fans won't be happy with that and will want to win silverware.
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As we have found what supporters and owners want can be very different.
The binman chronicles
Player Valuation: £80m
Hope they go bust. Absolutely mental policy and remember when people said we broke the transfer market but bearly a squeek other than in passing Chelsea have spent another one hundred million today on a couple of players.
Martin Alvito
Player Valuation: £50m
As far as I can tell, the best way to understand Chelsea's present strategy is like this:
- arrange for all the hookers and blow for the school year
- be surprised when others' pledges for these purposes come up short
- sell assets to cover the immediate cashflow deficit, leaving deep remaining debts
- learn nothing
- acquire more hookers and blow to cover the worst of the university wastrels' desires
- fail at being a collection company again
- ask Dad for a loan
- be surprised when Dad explains precisely where you and your business model can stick it
- go under
I'm not clear on how one gets to be a billionaire while learning nothing from this experience, but it appears to be what is happening.
- arrange for all the hookers and blow for the school year
- be surprised when others' pledges for these purposes come up short
- sell assets to cover the immediate cashflow deficit, leaving deep remaining debts
- learn nothing
- acquire more hookers and blow to cover the worst of the university wastrels' desires
- fail at being a collection company again
- ask Dad for a loan
- be surprised when Dad explains precisely where you and your business model can stick it
- go under
I'm not clear on how one gets to be a billionaire while learning nothing from this experience, but it appears to be what is happening.
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