Chelsea’s transfer policy has been described as “stupid” and “ridiculous” by Alan Shearer following Graham Potter’s failure to make the club’s excessive spending work on the pitch.
A whopping 13 first-team players were signed by Todd Boehly and Co over the season at a cost of around £600million to leave a bloated squad that the recently-sacked manager struggled to get a grip on.
As the club begins to search for a new manager, former Newcastle and England captain Shearer made clear his incredulity with how Chelsea handled Potter’s short spell in charge.
He told MOTD2: “Who on earth goes to a football club, pays over £20m for the manager and his staff, puts him on a five of six-year contract, on £10m-a-year, gives them a ridiculous amount of players with a stupid amount of money that’s been spent... and sacks him seven months later?
“It could only happen in football.”
Shearer added that, for all of Chelsea’s spending, one of the most baffling factors was their inability to sign a striker.
He continued: “You talk about bringing all your staff in and recruitment guys, you can’t tell me the recruitment guys have looked at [the list of players signed] and thought, ‘This is the way we’re going to go, that’s our plan’.
“Anyone with a football brain will tell you that signing that amount of players is not going to work.”
