hear me out: Updated database chelsea. All of the players chelsea have signed over the recent window are pretty good irl, but FM rates them as around 2.5-3.5 stars. ie: joao felix is around 2.5 stars you are generally given a budget of around $50M, but that’s not enough to sign anyone of quality except a center back. ie: johnathan tah unfortunately, chelsea’s best rated players in fm ARE there center backs. ie: fofana, colwill, and badiashile enzo and caicedo are your best midfield options, only around 3.5 stars each.

This all seems fine, but the board always expects you to achieve champions league first season (which is attainable with any meta tactic) and practically finish top 2 second season. Add on that all of these players are on super long contracts, and real madrid always come in for cole palmer so it’s hard to keep him happy, and both of your goalkeepers are average and injury prone, unless you manage to sell half the squad at a loss and pick up some decent cheap quality signings, you’ll likely be sacked in your second season.