Chelsea vs. Real Madrid REACTION: ‘Chelsea could become TOXIC in the next few weeks’ | ESPN FC

How do you prioritize what Chelsea need most? They need a coach. They had two big money attacking signings that didn't even start today. They need a striker. Is he somehow a quick fix for Todd's bully? over the last year since taking over the answer you know you know i mean where do they go where do they go from here they have seven games they're in a holding pattern

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ly until they identify the manager they want um and i play at the gate i mean ante all they have to do is turn the team down they have too many players they have 31-32 first two players on the books that's obviously unsustainable um it looks like they're not going to have any European football here it's a slim chance of the Europa Conference League did a lot to go their way to make that happen, but not having European football is obviously another hit to their income, puts them, you know. they often talk behind the scenes about the Headroom they feel they have with financial fair play but that will restrict that quite a bit if they don't get revenue from Europe matches and TV revenue so the first thing they need to do is optimize that team, the first thing you want to do is find a manager, then they have to optimize the team and then they have to find a center forward, I mean I think Christopher and Cuckoo will get into that. it's a deal that's been discussed for a long time so they have someone lined up but there's something we've talked about on this show before the problem they have is they've almost done it backwards and signed players they spent most of the money and now they're going to get a manager there's no guarantee that the manager that comes in will like all of those players so they

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ly need to identify who that manager is as soon as they can so they can start taking decisions about who they want to get rid of because they're going to have to sell five six seven players maybe maybe more than that they have to make decisions about contracts they have people like Mason Mountain closed captions not available thank you very much for watching ESPN on YouTube and For more sports highlights and analysis be sure to download the ESPN app and for premium content and live streaming subscribe to ESPN Plus.