‘You are asking for trouble’ – Chelsea star tells Chelsea owner Todd Boehly

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Chelsea star Hakim Ziyech, who is currently on loan at Turkish club Galatasaray, has slammed Chelsea’s transfer policy under co-owner Todd Boehly which saw players ‘run out of patience’.

The Blues have spent around £1billion on transfers since Boehly bought the club from Roman Abramovich in May 2022 but it has brought little success to the club on the pitch.

Chelsea finished 12th in the Premier League last season and are currently 11th in the Premier League ahead of Sunday’s Premier League game against Brighton.

Ziyech, who left Chelsea to join Galatasaray on a season-long loan this summer with an obligation to make the move permanent, feels the Blues squad was too large and was ‘asking for problems’.

“We had three teams there with top players,” the Morocco international told Voetbal International.

“At a certain point we run out of patience. A selection with 40 players for one team is simply far too much and is asking for problems.”

Ziyech admits that he was left ‘nagging with club management’ and was hurt over a failed move to Paris Saint-Germain.

“Pff, Chelsea, we can talk about that for a long time,” Ziyech added. “But the conclusion is that things did not turn out as we had hoped.

“It was a period full of coaching changes, nagging with the club management, a departure to Paris Saint-Germain that did not happen at the last minute and it was disappointing in terms of football.”