The Athletic

Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast.

I'm John McKenzie and I'm joined as I always am

but my good friend and producer Mike Zimmerman.

Mike, how's it going?

Good, ready to roll John.

Ready to roll and there's lots to roll on about

because we are going to be talking about Chelsea.

We've got Sam from London is Blue podcast on with us this week. Mike, you've just listened to that

conversation. What did you make of it? I mean, Chelsea is such a polarizing club and their approach

has been viewed on all ends of the spectrum, chaos, youth, injuries, everybody has opinions.

But Sam kind of sifts through all the noise and gives us a clearer picture of the state of the club

and really their vision under Todd Bowley and Parchitino.

Yeah, I think they're a super interesting club precisely because they are such an unknown quantity right now.

They have, as you said, been taken over by that clear-let capital ownership group in the last couple of seasons.

They put a lot of money into the club, but we're not really seeing the sort of rate of

return that you might want when you put that amount of money into a football club.

So definitely want to keep an eye on.

And yeah, the best thing for us to do, I think, is to just go straight to Sam and listen

to what he has to say about Chelsea.

Yeah. and listen to what he has to say about Chelsea. Over the course of the last decade or so, Chelsea Football Club have been used to competing

at the highest level of European football.

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