There have always been a player somewhere, who finds a way to attack the blues recent success, and apart from the fact that rival fans throw shades about the club being bankrolled by the Russian Oligarch, some players have also taken it personal to always attack Chelsea’s success.
In the past, it was Samuel Eto’o who told the press while in Italy that he’ll rather go to his village in Cameroon to sell groundnuts, than play for a small club like Chelsea. Many years after, Eto’o joined Chelsea on the 29th of August 2013, going ahead to make 53 appearances for the blues and scoring 25 goals and making 13 assists.
Now, Zlatan for the umpteenth time has attacked Chelsea again for whatever reason. Following the signing of Romelu Lukaku to Chelsea, Zlatan launched this scathing attack;
“I just don’t like Chelsea, period. They are a team who use 2 coaches in one season before they could be able to achieve something – for me that’s not a team. Chelsea bought it’s success with money, simple as that.”
The reality of the modern game is that you don’t pay for results, you pay the players. Hard work is what pays off on the pitch of play. Many teams can’t say they won the Champions League with a handful of players who came through their youth system, and Zlatan can’t tell football lovers that his move from Milan to PSG at the time wasn’t money oriented.
Zlatan played for Barcelona, AC Milan, PSG, Manchester United and Juventus. Did they all have free transfer players? This argument of “buying success” holds very little water, and only spells jealousy. It is still 11vs11 players for 90 minutes, coaching tactics and players execution of the coaching tactics that comes to play. This should not be hard for a player of Ibrahimovic’s status to understand.
Every club technically buys their success. Before the arrival of Abramovich to Chelsea, Manchester United bought all the better players in England and still spends millions of pounds even more than Chelsea these days; Barcelona have the highest wage bill in football until this summer, same with Real Madrid. These clubs in the last ten years have been very successful, and it didn’t happen with academy players.
Zlatan played in all the giants from Italy, and went to France, England and Spain. These are big words from someone who has made his life, thanks to big teams spending money on buying him and paying him lots of money. What an irony! His attack on Chelsea is becoming boring, what do we call this again?
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