Blues bashers out in force again

AND there I was, wondering what I’d have to write about during international week! We have once again been made out to be the “enemies of football” for something that is done the world over and, in one way or another, by every club.

How does anyone think the transfer market works if it is not by encouraging people to break their contracts and by offering inducements? With more information emerging from the murk of FIFA this weekend about “le contrat aspirant” (another example of one of those European rules that the French seem to make up for themselves which have no basis in law), it’s not even clear that we have done anything wrong.

And even if we have, do you ardent Chelsea haters out there – and I know there are a lot of you – honestly believe that we are either the first club to have done this in pursuit of talented youngsters? As relatively recent newcomers to the upper echelons of the English league, I’d imagine that there are worse offenders.