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did any actually have heritage linked to Liverpool in the UK?
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Liverpool’s team was older than Chelsea’s. Inexperience is literally the reason Chelsea are struggling. In that cup final Liverpool used 10 players over the age of 24 while Chelsea had only 7. The average age of the sides was 24 vs 23. For the starting 11 it was 25 to 23.
Literally causation, or perhaps mere correlation...?
Chelsea is struggling because they spent hundreds of millions on shit players, not the age of their squad.
Certainly not a team of stars vs ‘a bunch of kids’
They spent hundreds of millions on future stars, which is why they cost so much in transfer fees. Established stars often don’t cost so much in fees, because they are so expensive just in salaries.
That’s a fairly arbitrary cutoff. Now compare how many from each team had 100+ premier league games.
That’s just means they have a better team, as you’d expect from a club that wasn’t forced to miss a couple of transfer windows. Chelsea was f**ked over by the UK sanctions imposed on Abramovich, and their Champions League winning squad was dismantled. The new owners have since gone with a youth policy rather than signing established stars. Liverpool already have plenty of those.
The Glazers spend less than the previous owners, which is why Ferguson won less after they bought the club. But Chelsea’s new owners seem committed to spending, at least for now. The January transfer window was fairly quiet but the real test will be how they spend in the summer.
Yep. Go the girls!
