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Chelsea this summer have signed a player on a contract until 2033 and another until 2034. Morgan Rogers until 2033. Geovany Quenda, who is 18 years old, until 2034.

This is a club that has built its entire transfer strategy around the future. Long contracts on young players, amortisation spread over seven and eight years, a conveyor belt of teenage talent acquired early and developed within the system.

It is unconventional, it has drawn significant criticism, and under Todd Boehly's ownership it has at various points resulted in a squad so bloated that nearly half of the first team players were training separately from the main group.

Into that environment, Chelsea have just signed Jordan Henderson. Age 35. Contract until 2028. Two years.

That is not a contradiction of their strategy. In fact, it is an acknowledgement of its limits. Stay with me.

A squad built almost entirely on youth and potential needs something Henderson provides that no teenage talent can manufacture- Experience in winning environments, leadership in a dressing room full of players who have never navigated a full Premier League title race and the ability to read a game at pace and make decisions that take years of top level football to develop.

Henderson won the Premier League, the Champions League, and the Club World Cup at Liverpool. He captained England. He has been in more high pressure matches than most of Chelsea's current squad have combined appearances.

Under new head coach Xabi Alonso, Chelsea are trying to find a balance between the long term project Boehly's ownership demands and the short term results a club of their size cannot afford to ignore. Henderson on a free transfer, two years, no acquisition cost, is a low risk addition that addresses a specific gap in what is otherwise a very young squad.

Whether it works depends entirely on how much Henderson has left physically at 35. At Brentford last season he was functional rather than influential. Chelsea are not signing the Henderson of 2019.

They are signing a player whose greatest contribution may come off the pitch as much as on it. And for a squad that needed exactly that, it is a more considered piece of business than the headline makes it look.

My name is Ajoje. I am a FIFA Licensed Agent and International Sports Lawyer. I write on the Law and Business of Football, a lot. Repost and Follow if you want to read more posts like this.

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@KingsleyClaim9 @Blue_Footy Yes and that's on Chelsea so if we aren't giving Petrovic a chance then it is gonna make a whole lot of sense to get Maignan cos I am not ready to trust Sanchez next season

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@KingsleyClaim9 @Blue_Footy I'm not siding Chelsea's management here I am only telling you facts cos you was accusing Vince of going back for Maignan when we both know if Petrovic is on the table we don't really need Maignan but if it's Sanchez then we need him, that's what Vince was passing across

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@KingsleyClaim9 @Blue_Footy Hear what you just said, obviously if petrovic isn't given his chance then it all makes sense to go in for maignan
Only if petrovic is given chance then it would have been unwise to spend that amount on maignan given his contract situation

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