Managers that solely rely on spending money to do anything piss me off. Mourinho is at the very top of that list. He couldn’t develop a player from the ground up if his life depended on it. The only time he played academy lads last season was when he gave up on trying to qualify in the top 4 and even then 4 of those 6 players only played in 1 game (the same game).
When your a manager spending as much as Mourinho does on transfer & wages, how can you not get results or be expected to get results? Their league finishes have to start improving though, spending as much as they do means finishing 6th isn't anywhere near good enough. I know they've won a League Cup, an FA cup & a Europa League title in the past couple of years and it's more than most teams have won BUT not everybody else has a £450m net spend across a 4 year period.
Their defence actually stands out as the strongest area in their team and I envy what they can do with a group of just decent at best defenders but that could just be because of the negative tactics that the past 3 managers have used. In the past 4 seasons their defence has finished in the top 1-5 in the league. Their attack on the other hand has finished between 4th & 10th (last two seasons it’s been 10th & 8th). That has to change now that they've paid 90m + Rooney for Lukaku. Martial, Mkhitaryan, Mata, Pogba, Lukaku etc. that is a group of players that should be playing attacking football.
As you say Tank, Chelsea have been lucky when it comes to their spending. They basically bought a load of young players for relatively cheap prices, kept farming them out to here, there and everywhere until the transfer market became ridiculous and then sold some of them.
It’s not as though they haven’t spent some money though. Morata, Rudiger, Bakayoko, Batshuayi, Kante, Luiz & Alonso have cost them approx.£250m.
. Honestly, I didn't watch the game, I was too busy watching athletics but I heard he pushed the ref or something?
