James Olley
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395 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 1 Sep
James Olley’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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A promising acquisition, but I mean you'd expect it for £117 million.
I mean, you know, I I was speaking to somebody at Chelsea just sort of around the Enzo Fernandez deal when they were confirming that that was happening and you know they were trying to make the point that they'd signed at that point they'd signed ten players um for the squad and they generated they I mean I need to check this, but they gener they are saying that they've generated in incomes
And loan fees, almost 500 million pounds.
And if that's true, that I think would be a record for any club in the window.
So I think they're kind of looking at it from the point of view of they've been very heavily criticized in the past for bending the rules around financial fair play, and obviously they've been punished by UEFA for breaches for that, and the squad cost ratio rules, and sort of everyone was kind of saying year after year, how are Chelsea doing this?
How did they keep spending all
this money and getting all these players on long-term contracts.
Well I think they would point to this window and sort of say, well look, this has been a bit of a redress of the balance there.
Even given though they have spent heavily on Morgan Rogers, Maxine Lacroix, I mean Marco Pelest, I think Palestra is quite a good signing.
Quenda is one of those wingers, I mean they don't go five minutes without signing a winger.
Who knows how he's gonna do.
Um there's just a there's a lot of unknowns because of the because of the the the the the profile they tend to buy at.
But I think what they have shown is a bit of flexibility in this window.
They've signed players at the opposite end of the spectrum, Danny Wellbeck and and and Jordan Henderson to provide a little bit more leadership and experience.
Um and they've not just concentrated on these kind of 18, 19, 20, 21-year-olds where you there's a
More inconsistent, so you don't know what you're going to get from week to week.
And I think they've tried to sort of streamline it a little bit because, of course, they don't have European football, but
They're under huge pressure.
Don't make no mistake, Jabbi Alonso is under huge pressure to get that club in the Champions League.
F from a wider financial perspective, they absolutely cannot afford another season without Champions League football.
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