I am stuggling to sustain the fiction in my mind that we have to be in the CL to be beaten by Bayercalona in the last 16 every year just so we can attract and retain good enough players to keep playing in the Cl to be beaten Bayercalona in the last 16 every year.
How many top players did Chelsea lose by not being the CL this year? Which good players did they sign despite this, and how is their league campaign going?
Oh.