Liam Tharme

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1,662 appearances 10 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 5d ago

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The Athletic FC Podcast · Why have Chelsea changed their transfer strategy? · 6 Aug 2026 podcast

And I think part of the approach with the squad building has been, and I I mean this as an observational point, not necessarily critical, is that it's quite American, right? matched

In the way that they would work in American sports with a draft system and where you go, we have to get the best young talent early because matched

By the time someone else gets them and they've given them a long contract and they're being paid loads of money, we're then priced out to it. matched

We can't then get them all until later on in their career. matched

That it's kind of a a bit more of a race because the players that come out or the athletes that come out of the collegiate system there are really, really good. matched

They're they're ready to go. matched

And you say the same about quite a lot of the kind of you know top level academy players here. matched

Cole Palmer, right, being the prime example, came out of Cities Academy, they paid a lot of money for him. matched

We were all saying at the time, whoa, that's a lot for matched

kind of an academy guy, none of us are saying that now. matched

We all look kind of quite silly. matched

So I think they are learning from their mistakes in that sense. matched

But you do think did it really need to come kind of two years or however however long down the line to get to this, rather make the mistakes in the first place? matched

Could you have foreseen this happening? matched

you'd have thought so. matched

I mean, the reason he worked really well at Brentford was was because he played kind of the the base of a midfield triangle, right? matched

Or the the point of a upside down triangle. matched

You'd have two number eights in front of him, or they'd play kind of a play two eights and Henderson would drop off and they'd have a number ten in in Damsgard and matched

I I mean functionally, his job was to do simple stuff, right? matched

Was to play a lot of side-based passes that meant they could commit the fullbacks and attack, push Michael Coyote on, um, could just commit more bodies forward, they could dominate more territory because they had a player there that could just knit kind of passes together. matched

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