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A LOT OF MONEY, ZERO TITLES

The 'súper projects' of Barça and Madrid that were shipwrecked like the one of Chelsea

Published:28/01/2021 - 02:40h

Updated:28/01/2021 - 02:40h

With the dismissal of Frank Lampard as a coach of the Chelsea, the team that more invested in Europe the last summer, also remember the hecatombes suffered by the FC Barcelona (in the 2000) and the Real Madrid (2009). Periods of big investments, that finished without trophies

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Because of the bad results, in spite of being one of the teams in England that more invested in Europe, Chelsea announced the dismissal of his trainer, Frank Lampard. Besides, the group londinense informed through his social networks that the new technical director of the «blues» would be the German Thomas Tuchel.

Of this way, the ancient midfield player of Chelsea, of 42 years of age, leaves the place after hardly eighteen months and with the team in the tenth position of the Premier League after 19 parties, after the recent defeat in front of the Leicester City. In spite of the context of economic crisis by the pandemia, Chelsea was one of the clubs that more invested in Europe to reinforce his staff. For this season arrived Kai Havertz (80 million euros), Swindle Werner (53), Hakim Ziyech (40), Ben Chilwell (50) and Edouard Mendy (24), in addition to Thiago Silva and Malang Sarr.

However, the performance of big part of the players has not been the expected. Werner only has marked four goals in 19 days contested in the Premier League, when it arrived in the middle of enormous expectations by his accionar in the Bundesliga, where was the maximum second artilleryman with 28 targets, that only were surpassed by the 34 that annotated the Polish Robert Lewandowski.

Havertz, the most expensive signing of Chelsea for the 2020-21, attained 12 targets for the Bayer Leverkusen in the season 2019-20, but in his first course with the «blues» alone has marked one up to now. The shipwreck of Chelsea has remembered to other two 'megaproyectos' that finish in failure: One of the Real Madrid, in the season 2009-10, and the another of the FC Barcelona in the course 2000-01.

FC Barcelona 2000-01

In the season 2000-01, the Barça fichó to two of the stars of the Arsenal: Marc Overmars, considered one of the best extremes of the world in the decades of the years 1990 and 2000. And another was the French Emmanuel Petit, remembered for marking the third goal in the final of the Glass of the World of 1998 in front of Brazil. Both arrived in the middle of the shock that sank to the barcelonismo, after the course of the Portuguese Luis Figo at all more and at all less than to the Real Madrid.

Others that arrived to Can Barça were Gerard López, Alfonso Pérez, Richard Dutruel, in addition to recovering to Iván of the Crag. In total invested some 97,10 kilos, a true paste in those years. But all was to the rubbish. They did not avoid that the Real Madrid won LaLiga. To finish, the culés finish fourth and opting a contingent to the UEFA Champions League surpassing miraculously to Valencia.

Real Madrid 2009-10

The season 2009-10 meant big changes for the Real Madrid, that came shattered by the 'sextete' reached by the FC Barcelona, that besides crushed to the whites 2-6 in the own Santiago Bernabéu. It began the second stage of Florentino Pérez headed by the white entity and, conscious of the need of the team to go back to compete, commanded until 258,5 million euros to install also the second was galactic.

In total were eight players those that added to the merengues: Cristiano Ronaldo (94 million euros), Kaká (67), Benzema (35), Xabi Alonso (34,5), Albiol (15), Negredo (5), in addition to Granary and Arbeloa (4 each one). Also, Florentino fichó like technician to Manuel Pellegrini, the one who had done a big work in the Villarreal.

But, to the equal that the project of the Barcelona in the 2000, the Madrid did not win at all: it was humiliated in the Glass of Rey (with the mythical 'Alcorconazo'), went again deleted in the eighth of the Champions League by the Olympique of Lyon and in LaLiga arrived with options to the last day, but carried it to him the Barcelona of Pep Guardiola, Messi, Iniesta and Xavi.

 

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