Many speculated that Chelsea’s newest American owner, Todd Boehly, would want to emulate FSG and Liverpool’s strategy when he first joined the team. Almost $1 billion later, the parallels are hardly noticeable.
While Chelsea has undoubtedly concentrated on acquiring young players, the similarities to Liverpool stop there. The Blues have made large, disorganized purchases that don’t seem to be going to pay dividends anytime soon on the field.
With more points already lost than Liverpool did in the championship-winning 2019–20 season, Mauricio Pochettino’s team is currently ranked 11th. Chelsea may now be preparing a transfer swap agreement that would encapsulate the disintegration of the team lately.
Real Madrid, on the other hand, might try to make a move that is actually very similar to the strategies used by FSG and Liverpool. Fascinatingly, Chelsea and Arsenal are both present for the transaction.
However, following an outstanding summer rebuild, Jürgen Klopp will continue to feel certain that no copycat can assemble a team nearly as strong. Here, Liverpool.com surveys the other major teams in the Premier League and throughout Europe to see what news they have to report.
Outstanding Chelsea trade is planned
To be fair to Boehly, he did come into a club that had a lot of peculiarities with transfers already. Romelu Lukaku said it better than anyone else.
Prior to Boehly taking control, Chelsea had paid $120 million (£99 million/€113 million) to buy the Belgian back. After signing the striker once before, the club had now spent a total of $136 million (£112 million/€128 million) on him. However, one of the new owner’s first decisions was to loan the player back to Inter after realizing that the return had not gone well.
Lukaku is currently at Roma on another loan, where he is performing admirably. Chelsea has been struggling to find a striker for a long time. However, Calcio Mercato has one amazing suggestion: the two teams might set up a trade, with Tammy Abraham—another former Stamford Bridge striker—going the opposite way.
Has a prospective transaction ever captured a club’s essence more perfectly than this, according to Liverpool.com? Chelsea is considering selling a striker for a third time, partially in return for a forward it has already sold, even though its leading scorer in the league only has three goals.
It appears Chelsea is now unable to break the striker curse, regardless of manager or even owner, but looking beyond the group of players who have already tried and failed at Stamford Bridge would be a place to start. As an alternative, and possibly even better, Chelsea might consider giving young forwards a fair chance from the start rather than taking advantage of every chance they get.
Real Madrid is “imitating” the Liverpool tactic.
Liverpool has been searching the UK and Ireland for young talent, especially after Brexit. Players in their age group have usually been engaged, while some have advanced fast into senior alternatives, such as Ben Doak.
Real Madrid still has access to all of Europe, so there’s no reason for them to focus on the same areas. However, it might have noticed some of Liverpool’s success stories and is looking for Jude Bellingham to follow in his footsteps.
In any case, the Irish Mirror reports that Real Madrid is “very interested” in Ireland young international Naj Razi. Arsenal and Chelsea are also impressed with the 17-year-old attacking midfield sensation for Shamrock Rovers.
Liverpool has made several purchases in Ireland in recent years, according to Liverpool.com. Signed straight from Ringmahon Rangers, Caoimhín Kelleher has shown to be a wise acquisition.
Since then, Trent Kone-Doherty has entered the program and is considered one of the Academy’s more promising prospects. These kinds of transactions seem like wise investments, whether they save or make millions.
Oddly enough, Liverpool might also believe that, aside from the Premier League’s exorbitant costs, the UK and Ireland are still comparatively underutilized markets. It will undoubtedly think it has recently found some great deals.
