Chelsea

Where to next for Chelsea? They need some serious investment in quality players. So many of their squad wouldn't get near another top 6 side

A bit of an over exaggeration there.

Chelsea have had seriously rotten luck this season with injuries which must be factored in and through no fault of their own naively went for quantity over genuine quality (at the highest level) in the transfer market.

Realistically, if Chelsea can bring in 2 or 3 top players they wouldn't be far off challenging for the title again.

 

Chelsea actually need these players because they're tied to the Homegrown quota. And they're still under the limit which means their squad size is reduced.

It's a colossal f**k up in transfer strategy which has led to a very poor season.

Giroud is still a very good player tbf, Wenger under appreciated him and you would find many Arsenal fans who would agree.

I think you're under estimating the likes of Luiz and Moses especially, how in Gods name could you consider players like Mangala, Holding, Chambers, Lovren, Moreno, Klavan, Smalling etc to be better than them 

The simple fact is if Chelsea keep hold of their top players and bring in a couple of world class players in key areas they wouldn't be far off winning the PL.

Courtouis, Christensen, Kante, Pedro, Hazard, Azpee, Alonso, Morata (granted he's out of form) Willian, Cesc etc are all top players. 

Suddenly add 2 or 3 world class players into that group and you have a serious first 11.   

Selling a lot of their younger players like Ake, Chalobah, Traure was very naive to say the least.

It would have given Conte far more room to rest key players in routine games you would think Chelsea would win. 

Yep. And with Terry moving on and Diego Costa being in the country for 3 years we've just named 5 Homegrown players on top of our heads. 

And in return they sign Ross Barklery Danny Drinkwater and Giroud who counts towards. It speaks volumes really 

I would agree with Conte in that for Chelsea to make a big push on 2 fronts this season, they needed to get 4/5 high quality players in last summer to kick on another level. Instead they signed some players that Conte didn't even want. In Barkleys case they tried to sign him last summer while he was laid up for months more. So something is seriously amiss in the background. You couldn't really blame Conte being like a bull over the transfer dealings there.

Courtois, Luiz, Azpilicueta, Christensen, Rudiger, Alonso, Kante, Hazard, Giroud are all quality players. If a new manager comes in in the next week, I'd expect Chelsea to kick on again.