Chelsea fans dig out 2023 David Ornstein quote that doesn’t look good for owners | OneFootball

Chelsea fans have dug out a 2023 David Ornstein quote on recruitment that now doesn’t look very good on the owners and board.

The quote was about transfer windows and the club clearly telling people not to judge them yet and to judge them after a certain period instead.

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It reads as follows:

“Chelsea are actually two windows into a four window strategy, so we’re being told wait till the 1st September 2024 to really judge this new regime around recruitment.”

Here we are, now in February 2026, and many Chelsea fans would say that they are still without a fully built squad and it is still missing key elements! Also, those four transfer windows have well and truly gone and passed now.

Chelsea fans dig out the quote

I’ve spotted a few shares of the post copied into an image above, going around X today, with Chelsea fans clearly unhappy with their overall recruitment and again, lack of making any new signings in the January transfer window.

Personally for me, I still think Chelsea need another new centre back, a midfielder, a winger, and a striker at least. There is still a debate whether they need a goalkeeper too, as well as potentially another fully back. So yes Chelsea, we are very much judging you now, and it’s not a good look!

What Chelsea have done this window

Very little really. They recalled Mamadou Sarr from his loan at Strasbourg to bring him into the first team squad as a regular new addition.

Other than that it was mainly just loans out and other little movements with academy players and such things.

The only other bigger profile move was Axel Disasi joining West Ham on deadline day, but even that was just another loan move. Not good at all.