The Chelsea is a historic English football: founded more than 115 years ago in the heart of London and one of the most popular clubs in the first decades of the 20th century.
However, trophy success has eluded the club for many years: recently in 1955 came his first title and between the mid-1970s and the entire 1980s spent more time in the second category than in the first, immersed in an economic crisis.
The club, historic London, it had no international sheen beyond the European Cup Winners’ Cups won in 1971 and 1998. But with the arrival of the Russian owner Roman Abramovich in mid-2003Everything changed almost immediately. Now, almost 20 years later, a similar era seems to be beginning with the new owner, the American Todd Boehley.
The institution of London, which lived for some bottlenecks in the first half of 2022 because it was directly affected by the conflict unleashed with it Russian invasion of Ukraine which ended up parting Roman Abramovich from the club, has already regained its usual steady pace in the market with a Boehly shows no problem spending moneyall this in pursuit of one Premier League that they have denied since 2017.
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To Boehly, who knows the sports activity through him Los Angeles Dodgers Experience Y Los Angeles Lakers in the MLB and the NBA, has been quite present in recent weeks for a Chelsea that is preparing to Premier League debut against Everton, This Saturday August 6th. And more has been its impact on the transfer market.
Chelsea’s 2022-2023 transfer window
Anthony Rudiger Y Andreas Christensen they left me zero cost to Real Madrid and Barcelona, respectively, after not renewing their contracts in a period full of uncertainty about Blues. But so far no further sale was made: they only gave in to the disaffected Romelou Loukakos to Inter for one year and about eight million euros. Kepa and Timo Werner also look set to leave the club but are downgraded in Thomas Tuchel’s estimation.
Captain Cesar Azpilicuetaa more bullish figure among those at Stamford Bridge, he chose to renew his contract for two more seasons instead of going to Barca. A movement that, together with others, paints the how Chelsea settled quickly.
The club has already confirmed six signatures for the 2022-2023 season: Raheem Sterling and Kalidou Koulibaly like stars, for 56 and 39 million euros respectively; international commitments Carney Chukwuemeka (18 years old, from Aston Villa, for 23 million) Y Gabriel Slonina (18 years old, from Chicago Fire of MLS, for 9 and a half million) and youth Eddie Beach Y Omari Hutchinsonadded by Southampton and Arsenal.
Moreover, according to Fabrizio Romano’s report, it will pay more than 60 million euros from the Spanish side Marc Cucurellawhich was a priority for her City of Manchesterand according to L’Equipe it is offered more than 70 million euros by the French defender Wesley Fofana of of the city of Leicester.
Marc Cucurella will be in London on Thursday morning with his agents: Chelsea have already booked a medical and then a contract will be signed until June 2028. 🚨🔵 #CFCs
The fee will be £52.5m for Cucurella and then Brighton will buy Levi Colwill in a separate deal. pic.twitter.com/3Hy1lhG3k7
— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) August 3, 2022
In turn, for his attack he recovered the striker Armando Broja, who has been on loan at Vitesse and Southampton, and it seems to be showing Pierre Emerick-Aubameyang either Benjamin Sesco as a replacement for Lukaku and Werner.
How much did Chelsea spend on signings for the 2022-2023 season?
Chelsea’s net spending appears to be gigantic, such as the 2020-21 season in which they won the Champions League after investing over £150m in net transfer spending (they had £118m in net income the previous campaign); or of the disbursement itself when it arrived Abramovich in 2003-2004, with 121 million pounds (at another time) to buy Juan Sebastián Verón, Claude Makelélé, Hernán Crespo, Damien Duff, Adrian Mutu, Geremi, Joe Cole, Wayne Bridge, Scott Parker, Alexey Smertin, Glen Johnson and Neil Sullivan, 12 footballers among which there are 10 who played at least one World Cup.
