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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
John Brewin

Premier League 2022-23 review: flops of the season

Todd Boehly has a snack; Jamie Vardy showing Leicester’s anguish; and Antonio Conte expresses his anger.
Todd Boehly, who has presided over Chelsea’s slump; Jamie Vardy showing Leicester’s anguish; and Antonio Conte expresses his anger. Composite: Guardian Picture Desk

Boehly’s Chelsea circus

Let’s face it, this entire page could have been filled with Chelsea flops. There was a point in late April when, with Chelsea on a losing run under the dumbfounded Frank Lampard, saviour without a clue, it became almost possible that the club would pay the ultimate price for eight months of farce and get relegated. As it is, the (dis)organisation that walloped out close to £600m on transfers finished in mid-table, but with no heroics in staying up. From Thomas Tuchel’s still-mysterious defenestration, to Graham Potter being handed a squad so bloated they had to use two different dressing rooms, to spending all that loot and still not signing a striker beyond Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang – signed for Tuchel only for the coach to be sacked within days – Chelsea’s decision-making made little sense.

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