After consecutive defeats, Chelsea won again in the English Championship, by beating Crystal Palace 1-0 last Sunday. the coach of Glaziers, Patrick Viera, criticized the posture of the Blues on the market and predicted an inflation of prices for English clubs.
“In general, all deals will be more expensive. Clubs from other countries are already charging a higher price for players, since it is about interest from Premier League teams”, declared the former French player.
Chelsea recently announced the signing of Ukrainian Mykhaylo Mudryk and reached the 425.49 million euros spent on reinforcements this season. Raheem Sterling, Marc Cucurella, Kalidou Koulibaly, David Fofana, Andrey Santos, Benoît Badiashile and João Félix were the other news that Blues brought in the last two windows.
“When a Premier League club goes abroad to try to bring in a player, it will be much more difficult for the English team. The seller will think that the spending pattern is the same as Chelsea. But what is important is that we know who we are as football club and what we can get in the market. Chelsea are on a different level and we have to accept that”, added Vieira.
Despite the high investment, Chelsea occupies only tenth place in the Premier League with 28 points. The victory against Crystal Palace was only the second success of Graham Potter’s team in the last ten rounds of the competition.
On the other hand, the team led by Patrick Viera is in 12th place in the Premier League and will face Manchester United this Thursday, starting at 5 pm (Brasília time).
“When you’re on the pitch it’s 11 against 11 and we were toe-to-toe against Chelsea. We’ll try to do the same against United. What’s happened to those teams’ spending is positive for the Premier League so we just have to compete when we are on the field with the quality we have, the ambition we have and the values we have. We will compete and that is what is important for us as a football club”, declared Vieira.
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“We can be really smart and work in a different way to find players that fit the way we want to play. When you look at the players we bring to our club, with Marc Guéhi, Michael Olise, Cheick Doucouré, we can still do the same . But, of course, we won’t be at the same market level”, completed the 1998 world champion with France.
Source: Gazetaesportiva
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