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The ‘solution’ to Chelsea’s problems? Spend more money!

Source: REUTERS

After 29 signings and a record spend in excess of £1bn over the last 18 months, Mauricio Pochettino reached the only logical conclusion. Chelsea need more players.

Perhaps it was a sign that a few months in ’s company is enough to infect anyone with the shopaholic Chelsea owner’s thought process, a Stamford Bridge version of Stockholm Syndrome. This, after all, is Pochettino, the manager who took Tottenham to a Champions League final in a season when they signed no one at all. But this is Chelsea where the answer to everything is to spend even more.

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