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

Obviously, when they won the Champions League a few years ago now, there's that famous photo of matched

The academy graduates all on the pitch together, celebrating with it. matched

And you feel like, okay, you spent a lot of money on other people's young players. matched

What about your own young players that could come through and kind of fulfill that? matched

I think if you're going to be so young, young player focused, you need a bit more patience. matched

Like we mentioned with kind of Brentford, Bournemouth, Brighton, I think clubs that are probably a bit better at not just chucking someone out once they've had about six months or a year. matched

And maybe they can't because they don't quite have the funds that Chelsea do, right? matched

Where they can say, Well, we'll drop another 30 million pounds on a on a tax. matched

I think it's a a a bit of a different approach. matched

It's saying the same point though, right then, that still the football club should be punished, whether or not it's it's this ownership having to take on the punishment of a previous ownership that otherwise Chelsea football club still existed then, it still exists now. matched

I mean, it's also the the weird quirk where they were given a suspended six point deduction that was then set aside on appeal. matched

I think that's really jarring. matched

If you've given someone a punishment and then what's changed when they suddenly appeal it to go, Oh, okay, we're gonna kinda get rid of that. matched

I think that is if matched

If they weren't given that in the first place and you said, Look, we're giving them this fine and you stick with it, so be it but what can presumably come up in an appeal that suddenly makes that punishment no longer, you know, viable? matched

I don't know. matched

But I think that will will jar. matched

I think Chelsea have been a bit too close to the banter thing for a while though, is is the problem that you can look at their even like their league finishes going back the past few years, they've gone from twelfth to sixth to fourth to tenth. matched

It's kind of been having a squad that's been together for a while, okay, a coach that's worked for a bit, then it's gone wrong and they've kind of sacked it all off. matched

They've sold players, got rid of players, brought new players in, changed the coach. matched

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