The January transfer window is over and in the end, it became a bit crazy, even thou it didn’t looked like that at the beginning. The main actor was, off course, Chelsea Football Club. The Blues and their owner, American businessman Todd Boehly, in the typical USA fashion signed player after player, and ended up with seven players for which he spent 364 million euros. His spending alone was bigger than all Bundesliga, La Liga, Serie A and Ligue 1 clubs together. And he gave his handpicked coach Graham Potter almost a whole new team. In fact, he is co ‘cool’ with spending so much money that he will end up ‘wasting’ around 100 million euros, since some of his players won’t be able to play in the Champions League.Deadline Day stoppage time sees Enzo finally breaking the EPL record, as Chelsea directs Ziyech’s horrorThe Blues currently sit at the 10th position and are 10 points away from Manchester United, who are occupying the last available Champions League place, but are still in most prestigious European competition. Chelsea have qualified for the knockout stage and will play two matches this month against Borussia Dortmund, but won’t be able to register four players they bought in January.„Clubs can register a maximum of three new players before 00:00 on February 2. All players from the previous quota of three may have been used by another club in the qualifying phase, the play-offs or the group phase of the UEFA Champions League, the UEFA Europa League or the UEFA Europa Conference League” says UEFA rules.’Premier League is cheating’ says Spanish La LigaSo, out of Benoit Badiashile, David Datro Fofana, Andrey Santos, Joao Felix, Mykhaylo Mudryk, Noni Madueke and Enzo Fernandez, four of them won’t be able to play. Looking at the price tags and the experience in the Champions League, it seems that Enzo Fernandez, Mykhaylo Mudryk and Joao Felix will be the one chosen and everything else would be a major surprise. And while Noni Madueke’s absence is not so worrying, since he is of too much wingers in this club, Benoit Badiashile’s absence could be a problem. Apart from the obvious need of a classic striker (which they didn’t address), the Blues need to strengthen the back four (or three), since Silva is 37 and Fofana is often injured. Badiashile is quite talented but won’t be able to feature. When adding his transfer value with the other three players, it looks that Chelsea has ‘wasted’ around 100 million euros on players who won’t be able to help them in one of the most important competitions in which they are still participating.##NAJAVA_MECA_6989139##
