I am seeing many Chelsea fans showing discontent and/or at least asking serious questions regarding the current owners recruitment policy and plans.
Many Blues fans are already annoyed with the news that Conor Gallagher is going to be sold this window, with his move to Atletico now looking likely to go through according to multiple reports today. The way Trevoh Chalobah has been treated has also grinded a few gears in the Chelsea fan base.
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The owners are also often under fire by fans due to the amount of young promising players they are buying since they came in, seemingly planning fir the future, which is fine of course. But it’s the amount of players, and fans get annoyed that the club are throwing £20m here and £15m there bringing in new young players who more than likely will never even play for the club, when they have one of the best youth academies in the game.
The latest report is going to rile the fan base up even more as it continues to get toxic.
Fofana set to leave
https://twitter.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1820401344840183880
One of those many youngsters that Chelsea have signed lately in the hope that they might come good is striker David Datro Fofana. But the point many have made looks like it will soon be proven, with Fofana clearly not going to be having a future at the club.
As Romano reports above, Chelsea are set to loan him out with an obligation to buy (basically selling him) this window!
Seems like fan discontent has become a little too core to the “Chelsea News” business model—as opposed to, say, actual news.
This site regularly reports on fan discontent as if it qualifies as actual news in and of itself while AT THE SAME TIME using every opportunity to fan the flames of that very same discontent. Do the writers not recognize the bias inherent in this model???
It seems to matter little whether the sentiment (e.g., anger over the sale, or potential sale, of homegrown players like Gallagher and Chalobah) is actually well founded in footballing terms (e.g., an argument that Gallagher is good enough to start ahead of Caicedo, Fernandez and Lavia in Enzo Maresca’s system and, therefore, worthy of a better contract than he was offered). Instead, the writers treat fan sentiment as if it’s automatically valid and newsworthy. Rarely, if ever, do they question whether its rational or well-supported by, say, data.. And this where Chelsea News really fails its readers. If this truly is a “news” site and not just a fanzine then it owes it to us, the readers, to be more critical and more analytical instead merely parroting what the loudest and most ornery among the fan base are shouting. We can get all we want of the latter on any social media outlet, but “news” HAS GOT TO BE BETTER.