Alan Shearer described Chelsea’s transfer strategy as “stupid” and “ridiculous.” Following Graham Potter’s inability to make the club’s excessive spending work on the field of play.
Over the course of the season, Todd Boehly and his consortium spent approximately £600 million on the acquisition of a whopping 13 first-team players. Leaving a bloated group that the recently fired manager found difficult to control.
However, former Newcastle and England captain Shearer expressed his surprise at how Chelsea handled Potter’s brief tenure as manager as the club started its hunt for a new manager.
He told MOTD2: “Who on earth goes to a football club, pays over £20m for the manager and his staff. Puts him on a five-year contract.
“On £10m-a-year, gives them a ridiculous amount of players with a stupid amount of money that’s been spent… and sacks him seven months later?
“It could only happen in football.”
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For all of Chelsea’s spending, Shearer went on. One of the most puzzling aspects was their inability to acquire a striker.
“You talk about bringing all your staff in and recruitment guys. You can’t tell me the recruitment guys have looked at [the list of players signed] and thought. ‘This is the way we’re going to go, that’s our plan’.
“Anyone with a football brain will tell you that signing that amount of players is not going to work,” he concluded.
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