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A continuity club – five of their 2019 Champions League final starting 11 may begin Sunday’s match at Stamford Bridge – who take fewer decisions, but are better at them.

Six men have managed Chelsea, including caretakers, in the three years of Boehly and Clearlake and many a supporter hopes a seventh could displace Enzo Maresca.

Arne Slot’s success means they are unlikely to need another for quite some time.



Todd Boehly’s Chelsea are yet to thrive since the takeover (PA Wire)

For much of his debut year, Liverpool’s sporting director Richard Hughes has been criticised not for what he did but what he didn’t do: sign any players other than Giorgi Mamardashvili, loaned back to Valencia, and Federico Chiesa, who has been granted just 33 minutes in the Premier League.

Chelsea have signed some 46 players in the last three years – some yet to arrive at Stamford Bridge – but only Cole Palmer has ever come remotely close to assuming a similar status.

Since Palmer last scored, Fulham are the only team in the top 12 they have beaten.

Liverpool were beaten by Chelsea to the signing of Moises Caicedo (Getty Images)

Jurgen Klopp, for one, thought Chelsea had bought some fine players – though for over £1bn, perhaps it would have been more remarkable if they did not – but, somehow, while leaving crucial vacancies.

Chelsea seemed to assume that if they bought enough young players, some would reach stratospheric heights.

Chelsea’s model omits the value of experience and leadership seen at Liverpool with captain Virgil van Dijk (EPA)

They recruited them in part by outbidding everyone else.

The pulling power at Stamford Bridge remains considerable, shown by the sheer number of players who sign up.
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