Quote from: Avirunes on Today at 04:34:53 PM

Quote from: shogun47 on Today at 03:59:56 PM

Everything and everyone starts from scratch this season. Some things could be an advantage for Chelsea. Not playing any European competition means they can focus 100% of their resources on the Premier League and the FA Cup and maybe the League Cup. I know they would have preferred their situation to be differently, but they have to make the best out of it and having less games could be used as an advantage. Since the transfer period is going on for so much longer, I wouldn't dare giving a prediction of how they will be doing in the coming season. There could still be several transfers.

Yeah there is a slight advantage with much less things to focus but this season is very much important for the Blues. Chelsea are very strong club and whatever things went down there over these 2-3 years wasn't good for the club but they have to turn around things now. It's a new season, clean slate and they have to make a strong structure -not only in terms of squad but also a good management and board decisions, and also minding the regulations.

Can they make into CL? Yes - but it's tough, very tough. We all know how United improved within a year and I think Chelsea can too also, but they are in much more worse situation as compared to what United were in a year ago. Pochettino has a lot of work to do and he knows it [1] .

References :
[1] https://twitter.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1677535289374388225

Before the last season they qualified for the top four and the Champions League four years in a row and that is where that club usually belongs given the resources they had and also the team they had already during that time. From today's perspective it looks more like the change in ownership to Boehly caused more harm than good. This is an issue when somebody who isn't into the sport as much believes that he can dominate the soccer world when only half a billion dollars is invested. So far it was a massive waste of resources for the investors, but it's good to see that money in some cases isn't everything.