Chelsea legend Gary Cahill has come out to defend the club’s transfer policy. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, Enzo Maresca’s core squad from last season remains intact, and while pundits criticize the excessive new additions every season, fresh legs are key to maintaining a high competition level within the team.
Cahill added that the talented Liam Delap can go on to become a 20-goal-per-season striker for the club.
His words, “It’s hard to know if Chelsea will spend more money because I do think the squad looks good. I’ve always said they needed a proper 20-goal-a-season striker and I think Liam Delap fits the bill perfectly. He looks great business to me and I think he’ll do really well at Chelsea.
Cole Palmer has been the top goalscorer the last two seasons, and we all know how talented he is, but he’s a midfielder at the end of the day. Chelsea need a striker scoring the majority of their goals if they want to go to the next level.
A striker that scores 20-plus goals a season is worth, I can’t tell you how many league positions… and that’s why they are so hard to come by.
They’ve managed to keep the core of the squad that did so well last season is still there and they’ve just sprinkled it with players in positions they needed cover in, like a centre forward.
I know there’s been a lot of players coming and going through the door recently but I don’t think that should be seen as a negative for the players that are already there. When I was playing, new team-mates excited me because, nine times out of 10, that player is someone the club feels is going to make the team better and that can’t be a bad thing.
There’s competition for places throughout the Premier League but, the higher up the division you go, the more competitive it gets. When I was at Chelsea we had five world-class international centre-backs all competing for two spots in the team.
If it’s done in the right way, it can almost fizz the team up and give everyone a bit of a buzz. The transfer business so far this summer should do that.”
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Chelsea Football Club is an English professional football club based in Fulham, West London. Founded in 1905, they play their home games at Stamford Bridge.
The club competes in the Premier League, the top division of English football. They won their first major honour, the League championship, in 1955. The club won the FA Cup for the first time in 1970, their first European honour, the Cup Winners’ Cup, in 1971, and became the third English club to win the Club World Cup in 2022.
On 7 May 2022, Chelsea confirmed that terms have been agreed for a new ownership group, led by Todd Boehly, Clearlake Capital, Mark Walter and Hansjörg Wyss, to acquire the club. The group was later known as BlueCo.
The UK government approved the £4.25bn takeover, ending Abramovich’s 19-year ownership of the club. Bruce Buck, who served as chairman since 2003, was replaced by Boehly, while long-serving club director and de facto sporting director Marina Granovskaia left, as did Petr Čech from the role of technical and performance advisor.
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