Chelsea have spent more than three times the amount of other top four European leagues combined on signing new players this January.
Graham Potter’s new signings since the January transfer window began have forced Chelsea to spend €120 million more than Europe’s other big leagues combined.
Three of Chelsea’s major signings this month, Mykhailo Mudryk, David Datro Fofana, and Benoit Badiashile signed extended contracts that are far beyond the five years most rival clubs would consider to be a long-term deal.
The 21-year-old Badiashile joined Chelsea from Monaco for a transfer fee believed to be around €38million (£ 33.7 million; $41.2m) on a seven-and-half-year contract.
Whereas Fofana’s deal from the Norwegian club Molde was more than €10million, with the new Blues’ striker signing a contract through to 2029, which also include an option to extend by a further year.
And The Blues confirmed their latest signing of Mykhaylo Mudryk from Shakhtar Donetsk earlier this week, skyrocketing their winter spending on transfers to approximately €171.5 million, with more signings expected to transpire.
Meanwhile, Mykhaylo Mudryk’s arrival at Stamford Bridge this weekend will cost an initial €70million, with an additional €30m in potential add-ons.
Likewise, Mudryk will be a Chelsea player for a long period after his move to Stamford Bridge has been completed as he’s expected to stay until 2031 when his contract will elapse.
Meanwhile, teams in the La Liga, Bundesliga, Serie A, and Ligue 1 have spent a combined amount of €53.2m on transfers in January so far.
This is a total amount that equals Chelsea’s payment to acquire Benoit Badiashile and Andrey Santos out of their five crucial signings.
As it stands, Chelsea have spent more than €450m since the new owner Todd Boehly took possession of the London club last year.
Chelsea’s estimated outlay contributed to a new Premier League surplus of more than €2.1 billion spent by teams last summer, breaking the record formerly set in 2017, and as well accounted for 49% of the total amount spent by clubs across the major leagues in Europe.
Meanwhile, Todd Boehly’s outlays can be justified by the incessant injuries the new coach Graham Potter has been struggling with at Stamford Bridge.
The argument that Chelsea’s unavailable XI squad are efficient and more effective than their current arrangement seems credible.
And this is evident from the steady beatings that have diseased Graham Potter’s Blues squad.
Given the circumstances surrounding the missing players in the Blues squad list, crucial players like Reece James, Edouard Mendy, Wesley Fofana, Christian Pulisic, Raheem Sterling, and N’Golo Kante are unavailable which is more likely for any giant club to become prey even to dwarfs clubs in the league.
Potter is now at a stage where he can almost fill Chelsea’s entire XI of unavailable significant players with players who are still new to the team’s playing style.
Hopefully, Graham Potter will turn the Blues around with his current signings and make up an alternative XI that are strong enough to prevent Chelsea from looming in a disaster such as their present predicament in the face of sickening mass injury situation.
