Jinyuan aircraft carrier set sail again?

Perhaps the names of Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain will be mentioned, but one should not forget that Chelsea play an important role in the rapid development of football in the 21st century.

In the 2003-04 season, Roman Abramovich created a new Chelsea, breaking the Gunners' monopoly to win the Premier League, and then the Blue Army settled for eight years to become a new giants with a Champions League champion.

Chelsea, which is in the transfer market in 2020, reminds the football world of the team 15 years ago. Under the background of many clubs living frugally because of COVID-19 's epidemic, the Iron Blood Blue Army was able to scold Fang Kui and showed a dust-free situation in terms of signing aid. So that fans began to joke-"suddenly looking back, Chelsea has gone backwards for 15 years."

Compared with the ban last summer, the Blues are spending a lot of money this year.

Looking forward to the transfer market for the 20th season in 2019, Chelsea can only watch their competitors engage in an arms race because of the transfer ban. Under pressure, they have to recall young talents such as Abraham. Lampard spent a season training the "Youth Army". Finally led the team to achieve the minimum standard to enter the Champions League.

But this is obviously not an achievement that an ambitious team can satisfy, and after the ban is lifted, the founder of Jinyuan football will let the world know what cruelty is.

In fact, Chelsea began their own arms expansion as early as half a year ago.

RB Leipzig core Werner confirmed to join for £47.5 million, and in February the team booked Ajax star Ziyeh for £37 million. Chierwell's £50 million is like a blockbuster, even if only the money spent. Chelsea's transfer window has spent more than 100 million pounds.

The real horror of Chelsea may be that they have not yet offered Wang Fei-Deep-Fried Chicken Hafts of Bayer Leverkusen in the Bundesliga has soared to nearly £100m, and roughly speaking, the Blues are spending more than £200m this summer.

In the case that Messi has not yet decided on a transfer, Chelsea are far ahead in the "money-burning list", with centre-backs Maran Sal and Tiago Silva joining without a visa, but the players' salaries are also a lot of money.

From the perspective of Chelsea's transfer strategy, the goal of bringing in aid is not only the fighting strength of the year, but also the "super rookies" that the giants are fighting for, as well as the experienced veteran battlefield. This more balanced way of thinking can also see the team's ambition to return to the top after a change of blood.

Chelsea boss Roman Abramovich injected 247 million pounds into the club through his holding company in 2018, coupled with a reshuffle in 2020 due to the epidemic, which is seen as an opportunity for the Blues to return to the top savings.

Of course, Chelsea, which is burning money at this time, is different from the Golden Dollar Football in the first phase of the Iron Blood Blue Army. When Roman Abramovich first took over, Uefa had not yet promulgated a financial fairness bill, and there was no worry about spending money, which gave Chelsea the advantage of reducing dimensionality.

Now that times have changed, any team has to start to think about making ends meet, and through more than a decade of capital and fame accumulation, Chelsea has already become the top IP in European football, and the Blues, who are among the top 10 in world football in terms of revenue, have the strength to spend a lot of money.

At present, Chelsea have both advantages and disadvantages.

Last season, Lampard's team ranked fourth in the Premier League in terms of goals, but conceded the most goals among the top 10 teams, and the defence that the Iron Blood Blues were once proud of seems to have long since disappeared.

If this year's new aid can smoothly integrate into the team, Chelsea's firepower need not be worried, but if the defence Silva can hold up the beam, it will be difficult to make a breakthrough.

Chelsea, with full firepower in the transfer market, are facing opportunities and challenges.

The story of the football world can never be judged by absolute right or wrong. Last year's transfer ban left Chelsea money for the sale of Morata and Azar, and this year the player premium was greatly avoided because of the impact of the epidemic.

But no one can tell whether the huge investment will certainly bring about a qualitative change in performance. after all, the 2017 AC Milan and Everton are both negative cases, while Leicester City in 2015 and Liverpool's title last season depended on a stable squad.

In any case, to seek change is always something to look forward to. 15 years ago, the Iron Blood Blues became an army, Lampard, Terry, Didier Drogba, Petr Cech, Ashley Cole and other players became the youth memories of a generation of fans. that period of iron blood is drifting away from us, those great players are slowly out of our sight, the heroes will grow old, and only memories can pass the time.

This time, when the Jinyuan aircraft carrier sets sail again, can a new generation of iron-blooded blue army be forged?