Gary Neville and Graeme Souness have reached the same verdict on Todd Boehly's spending spree at Chelsea this summer. The Blues' new owners welcomed eight players - one of whom has returned to their former club on loan and another who arrived on loan - to Stamford Bridge in their first transfer window, amounting to nearly £270million.
The aforementioned fee was spent on signing Raheem Sterling, Kalidou Koulibaly, Marc Cucurella, Wesley Fofana, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Carney Chukwuemeka, Gabriel Slonina and Denis Zakaria (loan fee). However, while Thomas Tuchel is now armed with a far stronger squad and closer to rivalling Liverpool and Manchester City, Neville and Souness aren't convinced by the west Londoners' latest acquisitions.
In his latest column for the Daily Mail, the former Liverpool defender and Sky Sports pundit detailed his confusion at Boehly spending big on 'bang-average players'. Souness wrote: "Unless you have a bottomless pit, the money they have spent on Marc Cucurella makes no sense, considering Chelsea already had Marcos Alonso, Ben Chilwell and, at a push, Reece James in the same position.
