Chapter 11 Chelsea's Purchases
It's been 40 days since Roman Abramovich took charge of Chelsea, and with Mutu included, the Russian is transforming his Blues at a rate of buying a star every five days.
Most English football commentators have mentioned what it was like when Blackburn Rovers won the Premier League in the 94-95 season.
Blackburn Rovers are the only team in Premier League history other than Manchester United and Arsenal to have league title experience, when British steel tycoon Walker bought the club and began to spend a lot of money, buying Shearer and Sutton, beating Manchester United to win the Premier League title for the first time.
Speaking of this championship, there are still many British people who think that Blackburn's championship was "bought". However, most people also admit that its success was also inseparable from the head coach at the time, Dalglish.
Of course, in England, there are also examples of spending money to buy lessons.
Souness went on a buying spree after taking charge of Liverpool in 1991, buying nearly a dozen players in one go, and although they were good, playing together was a nightmare, with the star-studded Liverpool winning the FA Cup in 1992.
Souness's complete defeat at Liverpool is also seen as a laughing stock in English football.
Now, Chelsea have also undergone a major overhaul.
Claudio Ranieri could be as successful at Chelsea as Dalglish, but he could also suffer a Souness-style defeat.
Luckily, however, he remained at Chelsea.
In mid-August, Abu's acquisition plans continued unabated.
After Veron, Duff, Mutu and other "big players" arrived at Chelsea, the Russian oil tycoon set his sights on Vieri of Inter Milan.
But in the course of the negotiations, the Londoners found that Inter seemed more willing to sell Crespo, who they bought from Lazio for £16.5 million last season.
Chelsea are also keenly aware that, in addition to having a similar ability to score as Vieri, Crespo has an age advantage.
What's more, Crespo and Veron's agent is Fernando Hidalgo, which is one of the reasons why many believe he will join Chelsea to join his international team-mates in London.
The Blues are being reborn and everything is moving towards something stronger.
On 13 August, Chelsea took on Czechoslovakia's Žilina in a Champions League qualifying match.
Duff, who made his first appearance for the Blues, set up Gudjohnsen to score a 'blood' in the 42nd minute of the first half with a pinpoint through ball.
In the end, Chelsea won the first leg 2-0.
On August 17, in the first round of the 03-04 Premier League season, Abramovich arrived at Anfield with a new squad that he had spent £75 million to build.
Even on their home turf, the Reds did not succeed in disgrace.
With goals from Veron and Juris Hasselbaink, the favourites for the new season, Chelsea, beat Liverpool 2-1 away.
Chelsea's resounding victory strengthened Abou's acquisition plans.
Abu has even been generous in saying that even if the Inter president insists on saying "no", he is still prepared to complete the deal with cash before the transfer deadline on 31 August.
On 23 August, Chelsea beat Leicester 2-1 at home, with Mutu scoring the winning goal in his first appearance.
From Peron to Mutu, the results of Chelsea's acquisitions were immediate!
On 26 August, at Stamford Bridge, in the second leg of the Champions League qualifiers, Gillina still failed to breach the Blues' goal.
Cudicini seemed to be aware of his 'crisis' and did not let his guard down even after taking a 3-0 lead, earning praise from Blues fans for his performance.
In the end, Chelsea beat Zilina over two legs to qualify for the Champions League.
The next day, Chelsea officially announced the signing of Argentine striker Crespo from Inter Milan.
The arrival of the Argentine striker has brought Abu's spending this summer to more than £9,000W.
But Abu is optimistic: 'With Crespo, Chelsea can challenge Manchester United and Arsenal. After all, Crespo is a shooter who can compete with Vanney and Henry! ”
After the attacking power on the front line exploded, Abu began to plan the team's defence.
In the report submitted by the team, Abu crossed out Ambrosio's acquisition plan after some "deliberation", and only said Tottenham Hotspur's Neil Brown. Sullivan extended the invitation.
The Scotland international will be the latest sailor on the luxury ship as long as he passes a routine medical on Friday and doesn't disagree too much with the club on personal treatment.
On 30 August, Chelsea host Blackburn Rovers.
Crespo made his debut at Stamford Bridge but was on the bench. Gudjohnsen and Gronschal even lost their place on the bench.
Just 19 seconds into the race, Blackburn took the lead. Desailly made a mistake and tripped himself with the ball near the touchline, and visiting midfielder Janssen won the ball and crossed into the box. Kerr turned and volleyed in to take the lead.
After Blackburn's lightning strike, the Blues rallied to catch up at Stamford Bridge.
Just before half-time, Frank Lampard crossed to Mutu in the middle and the Romanian striker shook off Fredel and fired into the empty net as Chelsea went into the second half with a tie.
In the 57th minute, Blackburn took a corner kick and Cole seized the opportunity to score twice in the box.
However, it took only three minutes for Chelsea to salvage the situation when Mutu played a pass back to Grami, who crossed into the box and Blackburn defender Neil was fouled for handball in the box.
Penalty kick!
Hasselbaink equalised with a single shot.
After 2 to 2, both sides were full of gunpowder. Blackburn Rovers midfielder Flickroft elbowed and stamped Petit for an elbow and a stampede that escalated the atmosphere and even the fourth referee had to dissuade Ranieri and Souness from the sidelines.
In the end, even if Ranieri made back-to-back substitutions for Crespo and Joe in the last 15 minutes. Cole, but Chelsea were unable to break a 20-year home run against Blackburn Rovers and ended up drawing 2-2.
And so Crespo's Blues debut came to an end.
The draw with Blackburn Rovers made Abou realise that Chelsea were more than capable of attacking and not being very solid defensively.
As the clock ticked by, and when everyone thought Abou's takeover plan would end there, Chelsea managed to reach an agreement with Real Madrid in the final 48 hours of the transfer window. With a high transfer fee of 2,400W euros, Makelele was in the bag.
This is the end of Chelsea's buying spree. Makelele's move to the Blues directly fills the last hole in Chelsea's 'super-strong' squad.
Abu has a lot of money, and almost every new recruit who comes to the Blues will have their own press conference to announce their arrival to the world.
All thirteen newcomers showed their faces once at the 80th birthday of the club's lifelong vice president and Oscar-winning director Richard Attenborough.
With the help of Raiola, Tang Wu won a chance for himself to "appear".