Clearlake Capital are presiding over an extravagant mess at Stamford Bridge
Pep Guardiola's Manchester City only had to play to 60 per cent of their ability to dispatch a dysfunctional Chelsea team in the Premier League on Sunday. Photograph: Adrian Dennis/AFP via Getty Imageshas fallen off the perch it has occupied for the last few seasons because of the “self-sabotage” of profit-and-sustainability rules.
In which case, the Premier League’s healthiest and most exciting club should be Chelsea, who have spent more money on players since the 2022 Clearlake takeover than any club has spent on players in any two-year period, ever. It took Clearlake Capital to expose the true puny proportions of Madrid’s supposed “galactico” spending.
Some clarity: Sterling is 29 and makes £15 million a year. He’s scored just 19 goals in 81 matches for Chelsea, and they have 42 other first-team players, 17 of whom are wingers and forwards like Sterling. It’s quite easy to work out why he was dropped and why the club might want him gone, though it is difficult to know who is going to take a player with £45 million left on his contract off Chelsea’s hands.
The Chelsea fans were already audibly seething at their side’s painfully slow build-up play – their defenders trying to bait City into a press they plainly had no interest in being baited into – by the time Erling Haaland rampaged through the middle to score City’s first goal.
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