Thiago Silva demands Todd Boehly ‘stop’ spending to find ‘strategy’ to save club
The solutions to Chelsea's ongoing issues must be found outside the transfer market if the club is to get back to the glory days of old.
That's the recommendation put forward by defensive talisman Thiago Silva, who bemoaned the Blues' bloated squad in the wake of Tuesday's Champions League exit to Real Madrid. American Todd Boehly completed a £4.25billion takeover of Chelsea in May 2022 and has since been all to happy to spend hundreds of millions of pounds on new players in his first year.
However, there appear to be more deep-rooted issues at play after the club went from being crowned kings of Europe as recently as 2021 to sitting 11th in the Premier League with only a handful of games to go. Managers Thomas Tuchel and Graham Potter have already been fired by the club, with interim boss Frank Lampard back at the helm for Tuesday's 2-0 loss to Real (4-0 on aggregate).
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“I think the first step has been made, an incorrect step but it has been made,” the former Brazil captain told reporters after Chelsea's fifth straight home fixture without a win. “We can’t be blaming managers if we don’t take responsibility. It’s a hard period for the club, with a lot of indecision – change of ownership, new players arriving.
“We had to increase the size of the changing room because it didn’t fit the size of the squad. A positive point is that there are amazing players within the squad, but on the other hand there is always players that are going to be unhappy. There is always going to be someone upset because not everyone can play."
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Chelsea broke the Premier League transfer record to sign Enzo Fernandez from Benfica in a £107million deal, while Mykhailo Mudryk and Wesley Fofana cost the club another £70m and £62m, respectively. That's in addition to another £230m of squad investments in the 11 months since Boehly's arrival, but Silva went on to suggest more substance is required behind all the spending.
“The manager can only pick 11, from 30 or something," he continued. "That’s tough. Some can’t make the squad. We signed eight in January. We need to stop and put a strategy in place otherwise next season we could make the same mistakes.”
Following Tuesday's conclusive loss to Los Blancos, Chelsea would require a series of miracles to qualify for any European competition next term. The chances of them making up the 14-point gap between them and fifth-place rivals Tottenham appear slim, with Lampard losing each of his four matches as interim manager thus far.
Having earned major titles with Paris Saint-Germain and AC Milan long before arriving in west London, Silva stands out more and more as a wizened, winning anomaly among the new-look Chelsea squad. There may not be many more major triumphs in his future with the club, however, if it persists down its current path.
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