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He’s also on youth drug, he doesn’t want old men.
The thing is, Chelsea may be full on embracing their human trafficking of teenage South Americans era, but they aren't totally cheaping with it. They have €15M earmarked for an Ecuadorian. Estêvão will cost a hefty price if he hits his add-ons. So on and so forth. We're haggling over a single digit transfer fee of someone now in their 20s playing at a club nobody's ever heard of before (it's NOT the Independiente that Zanetti grew up a fan of). That's not to say great talents can't be found from unexpected places, it's not me trying to indict Palacios, I've even endorsed an approach that would lean more heavily into the South American market, it's to say that if this is going to be a strategy, it needs to be done under a serious lens. I'm entirely unconvinced Oaktree are willing to put in the investment required to make such an approach successful. For fucks sake, we nickel and dimed over Bento and in the end he transferred to a Saudi club for marginally more than the entirely unconvincing goalkeeper we signed from Genoa.
oak tree might be able to find a hidden gem in defense but if they think they’re gonna get a 5 million hidden gem under 25 forward they’re on the finest of crack. The worst part of this all is we have one of the most well known and recognized directors in all of football and even he can’t break these Oaktree assholes. Oaktree were willing to toss away 30 mil on a possibly convicted rapist if Correa left. Watch Correa leave and that 30 mil will be poof gone. Just like post Covid under Zhang. Thank god for our pre Covid business under Zhang and Suning because that and free transfers are keeping this shit show alive.
Oaktree gave Marotta a ceremonial promotion to club president, said they were entrusting him with the day-to-day operations of the club, only for them to knee cap every move he tries to make.