The Premier League club’s American owners have splashed roughly $750 million on new players since last year. Puzzled rivals can’t see a strategy behind the spending.
The Chelsea co-owners Behdad Eghbali, left, and Todd Boehly have raised eyebrows across Europe with a series of record fees and long contracts.Credit...Andrew Boyers/Action Images, via ReutersLONDON — As the last few hours of the January transfer window ticked by, and as a small group of Chelsea executives were painstakingly trying to piece together the $131 million deal that would make Enzo Fernández, the 21-year-old Argentine midfielder, the most expensive player ever signed by an English team, Todd Boehly, the most…
