Real Madrid – Chelsea: The danger (and the reality) of the new rich

But let’s not fool ourselves. Madrid has had money – and continues to have – like the most. It is also true that it generates it and that it has an audience behind all over the world that supports a club that differs from the other semifinalists of the Champions League precisely in that: it is a club of members. Madrid has been able to make some of the most millionaire signings in its history because its partners have allowed it to do so. NNothing to do with the stream of millions that a Russian businessman has injected, in this case the owner of Chelsea, or what happens with PSG and City, the teams that will play the other semifinal. At that climax, whites and blues play a very interesting duel (the draw is paid 3.1 to 1).

It gives the feeling that Madrid knew what was coming to the world of football. His transfer policy changed a few years ago. It was no longer indisputably launched for the most expensive signings on the market. That of inflating prices as it did the past decade gave way to reinforcements of young footballers at an expensive price for their age, but cheap thinking in the long term. Think long term. Just what Madrid had never had to do. The immediacy, the symbolic gesture of taking out the checkbook, passed to the English clubs, one of which, Chelsea, is now putting him to the test in the run-up to the Champions League final (more than 1.5 goals are paid 3.3 to 1).

The frustrated attempt to create a Super League has had Madrid as the visible head, although all the English clubs were also involved and of course Chelsea. However, the only one who has really been noticed complaining from the rooftops about the economic situation is Madrid, specifically its president Florentino Pérez. The English teams do not seem to be facing such tightness, neither does Chelsea. That Chelsea that overcame a sanction from several markets without signing due to irregularities in the incorporations of minor players has returned in a big way in the market: Ziyech, Havertz, Werner … (double chance 1/2 at halftime is paid 1.78 to 1)

Perhaps it is a young project, but of course it seems more designed in the short term than that of Madrid. It has taken whites two years to find the ideal cooking point for Vinicius or Asensio. It remains to be seen what others such as Rodrygo, Odegaard, Ceballos, Lunin or Reinier contribute, most of them on loan. That is why it has a lot of merit to be at this stage of the Champions League fighting against one of those teams that, despite signing talents, knew that their investment should immediately translate into results. He did not get it with Lampard, but he does seem to do it with Tuchel (less than 9 corners is paid 2.5 to 1). Chelsea is not a new rich, it is a renewed rich.


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