The idea of Chelsea having to spend again this transfer window is a ‘crass’ one, according to Mail Sport’s Dominic King.
Chelsea’s spending since Todd Boehly completed his takeover in May 2022 has eclipsed £1billion.
Mail Sport reported that they are reaching for the chequebook again, with Napoli’s Victor Osimhen – who has a £103m release clause – a target, though that might be more for summer.
And King believes that Chelsea’s meagre progress under Mauricio Pochettino would have had him ‘clinging to his job’ under Roman Abramovich after such lavish transfer splurges.
‘It’s like a money pit. It’s like a house that’s got problems in its foundations and you think, “alright, well, I’ll put some new windows on and it’ll look fine.” It’s not,’ he told It’s All Kicking Off.
The idea of Chelsea spending more money this January is ‘crass’, Dominic King has argued
The football club is like a ‘money pit’ in the eyes of King and Pochettino would have been fighting for his job under Roman Abramovich
‘Just a couple of things. First of all, I think Pochettino, had the old regime been in charge, I think he would probably be clinging to his job at the minute. And I’m not advocating that he goes, but I’m just saying he would have been under the most intolerable pressure, I think, had he been in this season on a previous regime.
‘But the idea that they’ve got to go and spend again after everything they’ve forked out in the last 18 months, it’s crass really.
‘I was reading Simon Jordan’s column again this morning about talking about La La Land and this awfulness of the January window, and I just think the statement that it would send for Chelsea to go out and start spending again would just be awful.
‘They’ve honestly got players that if they knocked on our front door and said, “I play for Chelsea,” I wouldn’t recognise them.’
‘I don’t know whether they’d frequent your neighbourhood!’ co-host Chris Sutton quipped.
The Blues have been dealt a rotten hand by the injury spirits, with Reece James, Marc Cucurella, Robert Sanchez, and Romeo Lavia among those sitting games out.
King claimed he wouldn’t even recognise some of the Chelsea players if he saw them
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