Marco Silva believes Chelsea’s flurry of signings within the January switch window exhibits their “power” and “ambition” as a drive inside English soccer.
The Blues have been the largest spenders in the course of the January switch window, as Todd Boehly’s consortium shelled out in extra of £300million together with a British report deal for Enzo Fernandez.
Graham Potter has bolstered his choices with the arrival of £106.8m Fernandez from Benfica in addition to Mykhailo Mudryk, who arrived for £88.5m from Shakhtar Donetsk, and Joao Felix amongst others.
Silva believes the sum of money spent by Fulham’s native rivals, forward of the assembly between the 2 sides at Stamford Bridge on Friday, is just not a brand new phenomenon.
“I think it’s not new. I know everyone is talking about them because it was a big amount of money in January but it is not the first time,” Silva mentioned.
“All of us, we know the difference between certain types of clubs.”
He added: “Last summer, they spent a good amount of money too and they strengthened their squad and they were able to do the same this transfer window and show their power.
“If it is too much money or not, it is not for me to talk about it, but just to show the power and show their ambition to improve the squad.
“It’s clear with younger players and fresh legs what they are trying to do and lucky them they have all this power to sign new players.”
Fulham have made makes an attempt to bolster their very own squad after exceeding all expectations within the first half of the yr, and go into the match on Friday two factors forward of Chelsea, however Potter’s aspect have a recreation in hand.
On deadline day, Fulham signed midfielder Sasa Lukic from Torino and Cedric Soares on mortgage from Arsenal till the top of the season, and Silva believes they may bolster the squad.
“There were two positions that we wanted to strengthen in our squad, the right-back position and we wanted to create more competition in our midfield as well, to give us different solutions,” the Fulham boss mentioned.
“It was a busy last day for us as a football club, I know you (the press) like it, but we don’t like it so much as a football club.
“But it’s part of the year and part of the market, it’s not easy to do even if we would like to have the players early because it is always better for us with a busy January and a lot of games as well.
“Cedric knows the football club and has played in the Premier League already and has a lot of knowledge that will help us for sure.
“Lukic is another mature player as well in a good age, another quality player who will give something different for us and create competition. I think both of them will raise the level of our team.”
