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The Athletic. Hello and welcome to the Tifo Football Podcast.

I'm John Mackenzie 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 polarising club and their approach has been viewed on 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 Boli and Pletchitino.

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 Lake Capitalhip Group in the last couple of seasons.

They put a lot of money into the club,

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