According to Enzo Maresca, Chelsea is already planning to add additional players in the upcoming year to close the gap with Manchester City and Arsenal.
With £219 million spent on acquisitions this summer, Chelsea became the highest spenders for the third time in the previous four transfer windows.
Since the Todd Boehly-Clearlake partnership took over in May 2022, their expenditure on the team has increased to well over £1 billion.
Maresca believes Chelsea is not prepared to contend with Manchester City and Arsenal, who presently hold the top two spots in the Premier League standings, in spite of this.
He disclosed:
: “I think we are a very good squad but there are clubs like Manchester City and Arsenal that are ahead of us, no doubt. Hopefully (if) we progress and (keep) improving, we can slowly, slowly be close to them. But I think it is quite clear that in this moment Arsenal and Manchester City are ahead of the rest.
“Like I have said, the reason why is one club is nine years with the same manager (Pep Guardiola joined Manchester City in 2016), the other (Mikel Arteta at Arsenal) is five years. The rest of the clubs…is a short time.”
“The target after the last summer (window) is to try to do less things but more specific.
“This is the target for January and for next summer. Hopefully it can be like this.”
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