Chelsea's recruitment drive over the past two years has been driven by one factor.
According to an NBC pundit, the club are buying players in anticipation of an impending transfer ban.
The blues have put in 1 billion on young players, with pundit Robin Mustoe suggesting the club may be thinking about a possible transfer ban due to misdeeds by previous ownership.
I wouldn't have spent (I have the reason why they did it) all that money so quickly, when you haven't got the professionals in charge," Mustoe told The Byline.
But my understanding is and its from a very very good source that the financial problems that was left with the club, that the new ownership had to go through all the books and by the way they are pretty thorough with all this stuff and there was so many dodgy looking things in the accounts the club thought that they were going to get done.
Which they have been done, they had been done by the way, they've been fined.
The club were worried that they were going to get another transfer ban and to jump ahead of that potential transfer ban when they said the accounts are here and we admit there's some problems here and some dodgy agents or whatever it is.
They thought they had to stack up on players."