That was an achievement in ineptitude from Chelsea and Todd Boehly, with Southampton somehow in a better way than Leicester and Liverpool and Spurs failing.
It is a genuine achievement to be quite so immediately bad at this club ownership lark, never mind to lower the floor for the Big Six. Chelsea had, of course, tested those waters most recently and ineptly, but ‘the Mourinho season’ which Antonio Conte once desperately sought to avoid looks like a Quadruple in comparison to the first steps the Blues have taken without their Russian oligarch stabilisers.
Yet the off-the-shoulder runs of a 36-year-old Vardy were depended upon until the bitter end; Schmeichel was succeeded by Danny Ward, who never challenged him despite joining in 2018, who was subsequently replaced by Daniel Iversen, who most will have forgotten actually signed in January 2016, with both unsurprisingly not close to the requisite standard; Ndidi nearly collapsed under the weight of midfield expectation; Leicester have not made an objectively good first-team signing since Wesley...
There will be a return to what has worked in the past because there has to be. Leicester founded their phenomenal success on selling when the price was right and reinvesting those funds. The few contracted crown jewels they still possess will go, the seventh highest wage bill in the Premier League will come crashing down and the reset button will be pressed.
Perhaps it was inevitable. In January 2021, Radrizzani, the owner looking to sell Leeds, praised Leicester as “a model to follow”. In November 2016, Victor Orta, the director of football sacked by Leeds, described Southampton as “the best case” to emulate and “a worthy case study”. The Antonio Conte risk was forgivable if a) they ceded to his demands and made his signings instead of trying to operate a halfway house, b) they hadn’t already done all that born-winner b*llocks to dreadful effect with Jose Mourinho, and c) it didn’t reach the painfully obvious conclusion everyone else foresaw when he was appointed.
They should never have started this season with Ralph Hasenhuttl in charge. They absolutely should not have replaced him with Nathan Jones. And while Ruben Selles showed signs of a spark, the likelihood was always that he would be dragged into the vortex.
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