Maresca says “you don’t win titles with money” after Chelsea spend £1.5bn | OneFootball

Enzo Maresca is taking his pre match press conference ahead of Chelsea’s Conference League semi final against Djurgarden in Sweden at this moment.

The Chelsea manager was asked an interesting question about his squad value (almost £1bn), compared to Djurgarden. The journalist pointed out that Maresca was managing a squad worth 44 times their opposition.

Chelsea boss claims you can’t buy wins and titles – despite the evidence

A Chelsea group celebration. (Photo by Mike Hewitt/Getty Images)

Maresca gave a bit of a cop out answer:

“You don’t win games and titles with money. We know that very well. It’s not about how much you spend in the transfer market,” the manager explained.

“You have to spend money but in the right way. This season we are now in the Conference League semi-final, fighting in our league and hopefully we can finish well in both competitions.”

Well, if you don’t win games and titles with money, why have we spent £1.5bn in the last 3 years? It’s nonsense. In fact, the statistical correlation between wage bill and points in the Premier League is something like 99%.

Maresca literally could not be more wrong – there is no better single predictor of success than spending. Not every team that spends succeeds (as we’ve seen for ourselves) but almost all the teams who have succeed have spent.

Maresca avoids the hard questions over spending

We just wish someone had been there to ask him – ok, so do you think the money has been spent the right way on your squad? If he think they have, then the original question stands as asked. If no… then that raises a lot of other, much more interesting questions…

Sadly, nobody there was willing to chase him on the faulty logic of his answer.