• usernamethatcounts@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Example of how this directly affected competition is the Willian transfer, he was all set to sign for Tottenham but abramovich essentially paid his agent a massive bung for him to dump spurs and sign with Chelsea. If Chelsea were ran off their own steam, like a proper football club, they wouldn’t even be in the conversation in the first place.

    • Legitimate-Health-29@alien.topB
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      1 year ago

      How on earth could you possibly know that?

      The season before Roman Chelsea finished 17 points above Spurs and in a Champions League position.

      This narrative Chelsea came from league 2 under Roman is lazy and reductive.

      Infact the last time before Roman Spurs finished above Chelsea was 1996.

    • middlequeue@alien.topB
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      1 year ago

      Or … just maybe William’s own report that he always preferred Chelsea is actually the truth.