Football has truly gone mad when a £30 million transfer is sanctioned because the player is fairly decent mates with the owner of the buying club. At the time, no one would have expected the transfer of Andriy Shevchenko to Chelsea to unfold the way it did. The Ukrainian was at the time one of the best strikers in Europe and playing for one of the leading names on the continent. But like with other names before him and certainly after, Chelsea learnt nothing from the purchase and subsequent failure of Shevchenko.
