I would argue that the point made regarding the Arsenal/Spurs transitional season needs to be compared to Chelsea's form after sanctions against Abramovich were announced.

Liverpool fans know what happens when a Club’s owner relies heavily on loans to build/redevelop a stadium. For Chelsea’s sake I hope they succeed in that endeavour.

easily the best long form football content available at any level, the research, writing and pacing of every single video is just so far clear of anyone else and the focus on objectivity instead of nonsense clickbait statements makes it that much better. keep it up alfie

Day 17: A detailed look at the state of Crotone would be nice, going from Serie A in 20/21 with a 20 goal a season striker (Simy) to Serie C by 22/23. Two relegations in a row, something surely has to be wrong at that club.

Chilwell is still recovering from said injury and there is no way he would perform on the level he was right after coming back. Cucurella was, in my opinion, not just a smart buy but an essential one. For the time being, Silva will have to work tirelessly till Chilwell gains fitness/confidence. One of them will sooner rather than later play LCB as the seasons shifts. Don't see either of them turning into backups long term and I am pretty sure they will both play down the left together in the long run.

‘Alonso is terrible cover for the wing backs, he’s not good enough’. Chelsea sign a top quality back up, sure they overpaid but it was massively needed and the club gets abused for it? Seem to forget chilwell was out pretty much all season and we fell of a cliff as soon as him and Reece James got injuries. I thought having great depth was crucial to compete with teams like city and liverpool? Apparently not.

Livramento and Lamptey both wanted out propably because of James so it was good to sell them instead of letting them run out contract and letting them move freely...

Can you do a video on the current situation at Barcelona something strange is going on there and now they may not be able to register some of their new signings what exactly is going on there

Chelsea might struggle for a pair of seasons but I think they’ll be okay overall. The secret these days is finding the proper staff to run the operation and though they’re new to world football, the new owners will figure it out. This season is going to be the growing pains season. The next they’ll learn to crawl and the following they’ll be able to walk.

tbf Chelsea were 50m+ in net spend last summer which means we kinda have the kitty from the champions league winning season plus the season just gone to fund theses transfers, similarly to are biggest window so far 20/21 we had previously gone through a transfer ban so we had all the money from that season + the money from player sales of hazard and mortar which ended up being about a total of £200m

Breaking the transfer record for CUCURELLA is hilarious. 75 mil for a guy who’s had one decent season, 2 g/a and played 7 mins for Spain. Not to mention 90 mil on Fofana. This club is too jokes.

Is it me or does it seem like there's a target on Chelsea going on this season🤔 everyone seems hell-bent on predicting Chelsea's downfall

10:23 Did you forget that we were sanctioned and only season ticket holders were allowed to attend matches at the Bridge. Our club merchandise shop was closed and so we got barely any matchday revenue, and little to no merch sales for a large part of the season

I have to say of all the football channels on KZfaq you’re channel is absolutely the best with this being the only football channel I subscribe to. You give us such an in-depth analysis of the subject on the video and even I a big football fan who study the game and players especially the young and upcoming players. I support 2 teams Liverpool & Juventus so l follow 2 leagues in depth (I’m English and Liverpool are my first love while I’ve always loved Italy and all things Italian Juventus are my true love)

Thanks for the video Alfie, just wanted to say I love you very much and I hope things are going well for you mate ❤️

I am surprised that you are talking about chelsea and not barca

everyone seems quick to jump on Boehly nd say he doesnt know what hes doing but im half a summer hes managed to do what Marina couldnt do for years. Hes offloaded deadwood nd freed up millions through wages.

Oh and lastly u missed the full Gary Neville quote, his reference to him being like football manager was in regards to seeing his name all over the place, which is actually down to journalists and noting to do with the owner and also is hilarious as we often would see marina's name bandied about just as much if not more....

At 15:13 when I heard "campaign was messy" I was expecting a picture of a certain number 10 shirt 😂

the glazers didn't spend any of their own money to buy united though. they took out a massive loan. so they can't charge interest to united as it's not their money. the bank does as it's them who lent the money.

Can you make a video on the 7 nations most likely to become 1st time World Cup winners by the end of the 21st century

Chelsea, PSG and Man City are all apparently debt free. Of course that means that FFP applies a bit different as a result of that. They SHOULD be Billions in debt but they are not coz their owners are their creditors who pumped all the cash into the clubs. Clubs with normal-ish ownership or fan ownership cannot just have an oligarch/ state fund just wave their negative net expenditure away

No big club, maybe apart from Real Madrid, will ever be self sufficient and compete at highest level.

You'd think Raheem Sterling would be £47m that guarantees goals, but then you'd have assumed the same with £50m thrown at Torres, probably the same assumption with Lukaku and at least figured to get more from Werner.... hope he does well, but maybe won't be a huge shock if his goal return is much lower than it has been in recent seasons?

It's really too early to tell - Chelsea this season could be one of those teams that gets results ugly. Spurs and Arsenal are capable of throwing in awful games and though they could have a lot of big wins and score a lot of goals they could also have a number of bad losses each. Liverpool look like they're going through a transition....Losing Mane may turn out to be a bigger loss than anyone imagined - I feel like they're going to have a bad season. Man City will probably storm the League to join Huddersfield and Man U as three time champions {in a row}. But second place is up for grabs - It could go to Liverpool, Arsenal, Spurs OR Chelsea.

Can you do a video simply entitled "How are Barcelona allowed"

Loved his fitness stuff during Covid

This pops up in my recommendations a few hours after Tuchel is given the boot 👀

3:01 , Back when KDB was just a fan :)

Best German players in the premier league of all time. (Day 365) I will not give up until the video is made or Alfie himself tells me to stop. Everyone else telling me that will be ignored. If you don't believe my number, just go back to the previous videos. I'm at the bottom most of the time, but I'm there.

This video aged superbly

OMG! Boehly wants to upgrade the Ship of Theseus philosophical question with the Stadium of Chelsea one!

Well, there's something called amortization. Clubs don't pay the transfer fees all at once, but over a bigger amount of time (3 to 4 years). So, Chelsea can spend a lot this window and less next year to balance the accounts. Plus, Lukaku(loan), Werner are gone and Alonso, Odoi and maybe Ziyech will be sold.They have made room for more wages. Yes, they are taking a risk, but if Chelsea continue to qualify for the CL and maybe win the league it will pay off.

Do one of these for Nottingham.

a documentary on the afc Wimbledon on the nine promotions in eleven years, how they’re a fan own club and how they have a stadium in plough lane now. The story of they lost the club, how the F A allowed that and won’t allow that anymore. How they were very close to moving to ireland How they went up the English football leagues. It would be a good documentary video if you can do this. #thepeopleschannel

Well done mate, I stood up and literally clapped at the end of this video. You have done proper research and have tried to balance both subjective and objective opinion. I would add that the Boehly era is a silver age for Chelsea, I see a more thrifty set up all the marketing schindig is to see how effective assets(players) can balance the books and how much they can achieve remaining in top four. The buying of players like Koulibaly, Sterling and Cucurella using data software show that the introduction of a scientific managment system which was probably used in the last administration but wasn' t intergrated based on the economic prospects of the Chelsea football club. Todd want's to take advantage of the marketing aspects of the football club and this would possibly mean building a stadium and obviously I don't see how much of Stanford can be expanded given its location. There has been a trend among the US owners that once they acquire new landed assets, they is a marked decrease in overall investment in transfers till the silver-lining of probabilty lines their pockets. I am not wholly enthusiastic at the Boehly project as I remain skeptically enthused at best, but I will continue to assess crtically what these genlemen have to offer, especially in the aspects of branding and merchandising.

Chelsea be like : Roman maybe gone but his money is here in spirit

Being and living in Bolton. I appreciate the silly Bolton joke 👏

I'd counter at 15:43, because if memphis depay is a 86 recommended signing even in the Portuguese league at any point other then the first season. Your doing something wrong.

In terms of sensible spending Man City's summer spending has left them in profit even after signing Haaland.

If results start to go badly, Tuchel will get the sack like he did at PSG. Their next managerial appointment will be fascinating. They'll either get someone who'll challenge in the top four or one that sinks them down to the Europa positions or worse. Southgate after the World Cup maybe, haha.

Bucz we r one the debt free clubs. And we are not in loss. And ffp starts count after 3 seasons. We r making signing of 2 windows

Now that we know that you play FM, we (or at least I) demand a series on your own channel. Pretty please.

I laugh every time I see the "Subscribe In Case I Get Sacked" advertisement. Alfie's sense of humor is priceless.🤣

until this day, I still can't belive they paid that much money for Morata

How do “loans with an obligation to buy” benefit clubs? Is it just down to them not having the funds during that window?

Can you make a video about the shady deals the team from Cataluña Is doing with it's finance

We’re obviously not singing zaha not every transfer rumor comes to fruition.

Day 2: 7 best seasons of players after they came out of retirement (Maximum one inclusion of each player)

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Mate, please don't say 'comprised of'. That's never correct. You can say either 'comprised X and Y' or 'composed/consisted of X and Y'. Comprise means 'is made up of' so doesn't ever have another 'of' after it.

Wait, they couldn't afford the signings of the last 19 years either, but got very creative with their accounting. "Loans" from the owner, etc. Why fix what works for them? It's up to the Premier League and UEFA to fix such issues but they look the other way.

Chelsea should sign Wilfred Zaha. What a fabulous player! Get the cheque book out now! He would fit in to the team seamlessly.

It’s like the pre season friendly against Arsenal changed the entire outlook of a team who literally were penalties away from adding fa cup and carabao cup to a haul of the super cup and club World Cup. And only did bad in the league due to injuries, sanctions, and Lukaku being 💩.

First time I’m confused by one of your videos! I can think of many teams doing worse , and isn’t this what u do every summer !

One thing I've noticed is that some commentators seem to discount the notion that a game lost at the start of the season can have any impact on what the table looks like at the end of the season. This just doesn't make sense; points lost are points lost, irrespective of when in the season a team lost or drew a game. With this in mind, could you do a piece on seven times where the course of a season could have been determined by an opening day of the season result.

Oh for the days when Notts Forest, Derby, Ipswich, Blackburn, Leeds could win a title. Gave every regional side hope. Now it's just the elite 6 (and then really the elitest 3 - Chelsea, Liverpool Man City) who regurgitate all the titles and cups between themselves...

Alvin, any comments on the Irish guy's mother comparing you to jack colba k?

Regarding the Everton result, one can also interpret that in another way i.e. it wasn't pretty, but we got the job done x

Has Alfie made a video yet about Man City's income? I'd be interested to look deeper into how they suddenly generate so much income. 🙄

Do a video on the best strikers to never score a top flight hattrick

day 4? of asking for a video on zico’s bizarre transfer to udinese

talk about spurs spending 60 Mil on richarlison to sit on the bench and leave chelsea alone.

Not a Chelsea fan, but united under ten Haag only want to sign players he knows personally 🙈

Did I see a cat in the back of the Kurt Zouma images? 😜

Cuando vi que ficharon a cacarella supe que no serian lo mismo despues de que se fuera el ruso de hibromic

24:42 "and Chelsea and Arsenal's improvement necessitates that they [Chelsea] take drastic action." 😇

Three weeks later, on this 7th day of September, I can readily verify that the answer is undoubtedly yes.

Theo is worth at least 150 million now that Chelsea paid 65 for Cucurella

We were never going to sell CHO because he is a good young player who has potential

Amortization would cover ffp, also if chelsea sell the deadwood like barkely, baab rahman, batsyuayi, RLC, Ziyech, Emerson, Alonso, Matt Miazga, etc they can recover some money

Has Chelsea FC released any rederings on a renovated Stamford Bridge?

What are you talking about other clubs not having the privileges Chelsea have lmao, Chelsea are barely any richer than spurs

We shouldn't let Ampadu go!!

Queretaro riot video?

Armando broja isn’t leaving on loan use your brain. We sold Werner so he could get minutes, the striker spot will be split between him and Havertz, and we could easily play Sterling through the middle.

Out of control spending. This cannot go on.can it?

No. That would be Barcelona.

If I was a Chelsea fan I'd just be pleased I wasn't a utd fan

20 goals in 158 PL games between Shevchenko and Torres... wow, just wow 😂 Still though, 80 odd million for those two players is reasonable enough for those two players. AC Milan Shevchenko and Liverpool Torres would probably go for 200 million each in todays market.

All those signings to get top 4 and win 0 trophies 🤣

Day 47 - The Fall and Rise of FK Velež Mostar From a Club that has beaten Borussia Dortmund, Twente, Derby County and many others to a club that was forced from their own stadium, reduced to nothing during the Bosnian War, becoming a mediocre top-level team in the 00s to nearly being forced into folding in 2016 to its amazing comeback to European competitions in 2021 seeing the early exit of Greek giants AEK Athens in a sensational win in Athens!

Seems like the days of "False 9" are over after only a season... Take note ManU and Eriksen...

Do a video on aston villa and gerrard losing the fans

I hate when people talk on a club they don’t understand

better to ask that question about Barcelona surely?

Let's go Blues!!!

Financial Fair Play rules were written to protect the giant clubs, not restrict them. They can do anything they want, unlike smaller clubs.

Can you do something on Arsenal’s finances. I’m a fan, but genuinely don’t know where/how we’re getting all this money from for signings.

When will you do a video on what the hell is going on at FC Barcelona or LaLiga..

Apparently it all went well when they tried it on football .

Bolton Town Centre!

chelsea, city, psg, madrid, barca, juventus to all go bust for the good of the european game, god willing. newcastle too if they're not careful

9:07 Wrong! RB Leipzig paid 17mio £ for timo Werner not 25mio £.

Your forgetting Lampty and Tino L didn’t want to stay at the club so we had to sell to make a profit ! Also when Man City spent over £200M on fullbacks no one really said owt! Come now stop with this biased towards Chelsea it’s like every season people want us to fail ? Like cut it out it’s stupid, because Chelsea has been in recent years a club that thrives under adversity!!

Got to love this video from the opposing fan.. The salty taste in their mouth was pleasing.

Chelsea and Barcelona can buy plenty of expensive players despite massive debts; FC Porto (among other smaller clubs) is punished by uefa because of "fair-play" monetary rules. And people ask why the beautiful game is being destroyed.

One thing, Chelsea spent a lot of money yes but since 2012ish Roman hasnt been funding it that much, they generated a lot of revenues via playres sales and also mechandising, if you look at net spend instead of just amount spend in the 10 years from 2012 to 2022 you'll see that it wasnt that high now Boehly and his clowns broke that trend so yeah.

Fofana for £85 million 😂 Has nobody learned anything from Maguire? Genuinely don't know what Fofana's done other than get himself subbed off before 60 minutes regularly and break his leg.

People wonder about Chelsea, but are perfectly cool about Barcelona