Chelsea finally changed their suicidal transfer policy this summer and have been reaping the rewards ever since.
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Former Blue Gus Poyet has been speaking to Chelsea fans about their team and the changes made in transfer strategy this summer.
Chelsea’s changed model brings instant results
Danny Welbeck (Photo by Richard Heathcote/Getty Images)
“I think the approach has changed a little bit. I remember the first [few] years of the new owners, it was all young players and long-term, massive contracts, which, depending on the character, works or does not,” Poyet pointed out in quotes picked up by the Evening Standard.
“I think now they are looking more for specifics. They would not have signed [Jordan] Henderson three or four years ago. That shows they have realised that investment was important, the future is important, but today [their strategy] is what the fans want. They do not want tomorrow. The fans want today.
“You have got some young players, but you have also got experienced ones who have been around [for] a few years already. Now is a matter of consistency.”
As we’ve said before, we’re delighted the owners have changed their model and that it looks to have been such an instantly effective change. We just wish they had listened to all the fans and pundits who were telling them from the day they arrived that this was the way go to.
They could have saved a lot of money.
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Joao Pedro has been speaking about his relationship with Cole Palmer and how quickly it developed after his arrival.