Five Reasons Why Chelsea Would Be Stupid To Sign £200m Lionel Messi

Chelsea’s marquee buys haven’t really worked

Whilst Messi is arguably on a different level to any of these players, Chelsea’s success in the Roman Abramovich era has come from bringing in round pegs to fit round holes, rather than spending big on marquee players. When they have done that, with Andriy Shevchenko, Fernando Torres and Juan Sebastian Veron springing immediately to mind, it simply hasn’t worked.