How Chelsea Should Have Spent Their £1 Billion Transfer Budget ft Bellingham, Palmer, FC Copenhagen & Briefings On Maresca, Sporting Directors And More #CFC

In this episode we put on our imaginary sporting director hats and take on the ultimate challenge—how should Chelsea have spent that £1 billion? Inspired by a brilliant tweet, we’re building our own 25-man Chelsea squad with a mandatory five Cobham graduates and only players transferred between 2022 and 2024, all while sticking to their actual transfer fees. No take-backs, no discounts, just cold, hard (and sometimes painful) reality.

Who gets in? Who gets left out? And most importantly—could we have spent the money better than Todd Boehly and Co.? (Spoiler: almost certainly).

The team also deep dive into another wild week of news and as always also answer some listener questions.

RUNNING ORDER:

00:00 The Start & Shevva's Shoutouts

06:30 News: PR Briefings And Chelsea Draw FC Copenhagen In The Conference League

14:14 How Chelsea Should Have Spent Their £1 Billion Transfer Budget

45:34 Match Preview: Aston Villa vs Chelsea

49:12 Quaresma's Questions

52:36 Loan Army Carousel

If you have a question for the team then contact them on Twitter at @AtTheBridgePod

(This episode was recorded on 21st February 2025)

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