C<\/span>helsea may be the one club who look at Farhad Moshiri\u2019s transfer record at Everton, conclude that he didn\u2019t spend enough but bought well. All things are relative, after all, and Sunday\u2019s meeting at Goodison Park is a clash of clubs who have suffered in very different ways for their overspending.<\/p>\nEverton have been deducted 10 points for failing Financial Fair Play by \u00a319.5m; which, to put it another way, is under 2 per cent of Chelsea\u2019s outlay under Todd Boehly. With those 10 points restored, Everton would be above Chelsea in the table. After two managers were bequeathed out-of-form sides by Frank Lampard, Sean Dyche has found more of a winning formula than Mauricio Pochettino.<\/p>\n
And even with Everton in what they regard as an artificially unfair position, Chelsea enter the weekend closer in points to the bottom three than the top four. They also begin a run against lower-half clubs \u2013 Everton, Sheffield United, Wolves, Crystal Palace, Luton and Fulham \u2013 which many a previous Chelsea side would have seen as a chance to take 18 points.<\/p>\n
But the current crop have a mere 19 from 15 games. Chelsea\u2019s chances of playing Champions League football in the spring of 2025 already look remote before the end of 2023. They are already being distanced by both their usual rivals and the upwardly mobile. Manchester United\u2019s defeat of Chelsea on Wednesday took Erik ten Hag\u2019s often unconvincing side eight points clear of Pochettino\u2019s charges; Aston Villa\u2019s revelations are 13 ahead, and that might be 16 by the time Chelsea kick off on Sunday.<\/p>\n
In 2021, Chelsea won the Champions League. Now the aim is simply to compete to reach it, and they may not be able to do that until next season. \u201cWe are going to challenge, yes,\u201d Pochettino said. \u201cMaybe not now but for sure in the future. I hope as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n
If it was both a recognition of reality, given both the league table and Chelsea\u2019s inconsistency, it was still extraordinary. After an outlay of some \u00a31bn, they look mired in a second successive season of underachievement. Chelsea can amortise fees over never-ending contracts, persuade themselves they have won the future by signing young players, cash in on academy products and their status as \u201cpure profit\u201d in the accounts to pass Financial Fair Play. Yet the transfer fees still have to be paid. Chelsea look likely to face another year without Champions League revenue; perhaps without any European income at all.<\/p>\n
On the pitch, the sense remains that Chelsea have contrived to spend a record sum without acquiring a top-class goalkeeper, despite Robert Sanchez\u2019s midweek penalty save from Bruno Fernandes, or striker; Christopher Nkunku, who top-scored in the Bundesliga last but whose pre-season outings for Chelsea came in deeper positions, may have his belated debut further delayed until next week.<\/p>\n
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Argentina midfielder Enzo Fernandez cost Chelsea more than \u00a3100m<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, their \u00a3222m double in act in midfield were overpowered by Scott McTominay on Wednesday. First Enzo Fernandez and then Moises Caicedo were Premier League record buys. If the United game suggested they need Conor Gallagher\u2019s energy alongside them, Chelsea careers suggest each was hugely overpriced.<\/p>\n
But if expensive signings were supposed to provide a shortcut, the kind of injection of quality that could render each a difference-maker, Chelsea\u2019s quest for chemistry and cohesion underlines the danger of ripping everything up and starting from scratch. Team-building can take strategy, something Chelsea seemed to lack last season, but also time, something their owners didn\u2019t seem to factor in. \u201cIt\u2019s not an excuse because we are in a club that needs to win,\u201d Pochettino said. \u201cIt would be better if we were in a different position for sure. We knew when we accepted this offer that it was going to be tough.\u201d<\/p>\n
There are other definitions of the word. Certainly Dyche has a different kind of difficult inheritance, taking over in austerity-era Everton, long after many of the misguided transfers Moshiri had intended would power Everton towards the Champions League backfired, with a club in relegation trouble first through their failings on the pitch and then because 10 points were stripped from their tally. If there are some similarities between Chelsea and Everton \u2013 both began the season struggling to win at home and neither manager has many players he truly trusts \u2013 it is an indictment in contrasting ways.<\/p>\n
Dyche is too pragmatic to imagine what he would do with \u00a31bn. \u201cIt is all conjecture,\u201d said a manager who has a transfer-market profit in his time at Goodison Park. \u201cThere is no point, I knew it wasn\u2019t going to be there.\u201d He expects Chelsea\u2019s spending to produce some reward under Pochettino. \u201cI don\u2019t think you spend all that money with a manager who is knowledgeable and don\u2019t get some kind of outcome.\u201d<\/p>\n
But while, as Pochettino accepted, Chelsea\u2019s performances have dipped of late, Dyche\u2019s austerity-era Everton are on the charge. If Everton were the role model of how not to buy, they may offer a lesson in how to cope when the funds dry up. Perhaps Chelsea will need it one day.<\/p>\n
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