Upsetter

Maybe, maybe not. The point I was trying to make is that feasible buyers are out there, in contrast to some of the statements I’ve read hinting at the near impossibility of selling the club.

Apparently “ In 2019, Todd Boehly made an attempt to buy the English football club Chelsea for $3 billion, but the current owner, Russian billionaire tycoon, Roman Abramovich, rejected the takeover bid.” ”Boehly owns 20% of the Los Angeles Dodgers and is also a part owner of the Los Angeles Sparks.[41][7] In 2019, Todd Boehly made an attempt to buy the English football club Chelsea for $3 billion, but the current owner, Russian billionaire tycoon, Roman Abramovich, rejected the takeover bid.[42] Boehly is an owner of fantasy sports company DraftKings and esports organization Cloud9.[43][44] Boehly and Mark Walter acquired a 27% stake in the Los Angeles Lakers together from Philip Anschutz in July 2021.[45][46] As of February 2021, the Lakers were third-highest valued team in the NBA, with an estimated value of $5.14 billion.[47]” Of course I’ve got no idea whether Todd Boehly and Mark Walter would still be interested, but you never know. However, that there was interest from Boehly and Walter just three years ago indicates that an American consortium buying the club is a strong possibility. All is not lost yet. Not by a long way.

Chris Bryant: desperately seeking relevance.

Plokoon, this is is all well and good and I can’t really disagree with your assessment. Simply put, Roman Abramovich has been a mostly fantastic owner with an undeniably shady past. Just how shady that past is, remains to be seen. Currently he’s being held guilty by association with Putin and perceived liability for his invasion of the Ukraine. But I have to admit to having no idea why Abramovich would be in favour of Putin’s warmongering. On the other hand, there’s a massive difference between a desire for justice to be done, and slagging off the club for issuing what is a perfectly reasonable statement (pro Russian propaganda, for f**k’s sakes), accompanied by what appears to be an overt desire for the club to be held accountable come what may. Coming from rival fans, media hacks, and idiot politicians, this is expected, but from Chelsea fans? All I’ve got to say is that our success has brought with it some very strange bedfellows.

We were robbed. That is all.

Ok, let’s go through this again, shall we. The situation in Ukraine is horrific and devastating. Chelsea FC’s thoughts are with everyone in Ukraine. Everyone at the club is praying for peace. ”Horrific and devastating”. For those three words alone to be considered inadequately condemnatory, takes either a piss-poor grasp of the English language or a blind willingness to cast the club statement in as poor a light as possible. Or both. Likewise, The club’s thoughts are with everyone in Ukraine… everyone is praying for peace, is apparently not good enough for you either. The situation in Ukraine is horrific, it is devastating; the majority of the sane world are praying for peace. There is no earthly need to add further explanation or further detail. What you (willingly?) fail to realise is that the club are in a no-win situation. A longer statement could quite easily have been read as an attempt to over-compensate b the anti-Chelsea hordes. To say nothing be gleefully seized upon as evidence of all the bile that’s been directed at the club by any number of individuals, including the likes of yourself. I’m not going to take this ‘discussion’ with you any further. It’s pointless.

Oh f**k off. No sorry, I was prepared to make an in-depth reply ripping your post to shreds, but no. Just f**k off. It’s bad enough when every band-wagon jumping, Chelsea hating, scapegoat-seeking moron and his retarded uncle comes out with crap like this, but for someone describing himself as a Chelsea fan to do likewise simply beggars belief. Russian propaganda? f**king do one.

Brilliant post on the official site’s chat page. Full credit to Voltaire Returns. The breaking news was announced just as I was going to sleep last night, and I'm certainly glad I slept on it. In all the years that Mr A has been in charge he / we have faced such a barrage of hate, hostility, ill will, animosity, and bitterness, all because we had an owner with money and upset the apple cart of the establishment of English and European football. The knives were out from day one. And in all those 19 years, we have had and proven beyond doubt the best football club owner in the history of football, its rubbed noses in the dirt and had the vast majority of the witch hunting press stooping to below the gutter, and in all those years they could not find a thing against the man or us. Now with a war which he has no connection to other than being of same birth nationality the same as the leader who has gone "full tonto" a witch hunt of epic proportions is underway. Gone and forgotten by many are all the substantial good and charitable works and efforts by a man who has donated more to good causes, charitable and anti semitic projects, here in the UK, Russia, Israel, Lithiuania and Portugal as well as setting up countless projects for integrating people who had historical differences and giving free accommodation to NHS staff to aid them doing their jobs with better efficiency during this recent pandemic..... There is no Russian alive who has devoted and given so much to charity. Yes there are many casualties of war, many collateral damage too, all of us know that the Russian invasion of the Ukraine is wrong, however the utter drivel and hate directed at our club and Mr Amramovich is by people with agendas of their own. The garbage by the Welsh MP who was caught red handed scamming the tax payer on his expenses, should not be in Parliament but in jail for stealing our tax payers money. Many of these ignorant agenda seeking monkeys, and their lack of intelligence and understanding, fail to grab the position of a man who can not comment for any words he might say that could be considered critical or offensive would put lives of family, friends and co-workers at risk back in Russia. This war is of a dictator who's lost the plot and is killing people who speak his own language and attacking his own family relations, this is not a war in the name of Russian people. For one his brief statement, gives a clear indication of his love and respect for our club, in his own words he comments he is a custodian of Chelsea FC, and with its well being in mind he moved his involvement away so the club may not be penalized for something he and the club have not done anything wrong, but knows twisted minds will seek out any retrospective punishment as much driven by misunderstanding, bias and hate at our success as of any perceived against an idiot in Moscow. As in the past there were many decent and good German's that could do very little against the rise of Hitler, but by birth everyone is tarred with the same brush, as in the same wonkey eyes of many today.. that we are still today responsible of the sins of our great grandfathers.... people being offended that were not born to be offended, by people who were not born to cause the pain of the past. Its not just Putin who has gone "full tonto". Custodianship has been given to the clubs charity foundation to protect it from those that seek any random punishment at any target even if it has nothing remotely to do with the problem at hand. We know we were always hated, that is part of life being a Chelsea fan, its got worse as we have got better and better. There is and was and will be no better owner of Chelsea FC than Mr Abamovich and for one I'll wait for however long it takes for him to come back home to the club where he is, respected, loved and wanted.

Can I just say. I really don’t like you. I’ve thought for some time that you’re on a windup, never having anything positive to say about the club, any of the players, or the fans. I’m fact you seem to take a delight in slagging us off left right and centre. And by “us”, I mean the club and the it’s supporters, because I’m absolutely convinced that you are no Chelsea fan. In face the only “enigma” about you is that you’ve managed to survive so long on this site without anyone calling you out for your endless snideyness. I’m not going to get into an argument with you, or about you. I’m merely stating that I’ve got you well and truly sussed.

Ordure! Ordure! Channeling my inner Private Eye there And while I’m at it may I take the opportunity to state categorically that Boris Johnson is possibly the most odious, most duplicitous excuse for a politician to ever hold the office of Prime Minister. And those are his finer points.

Don’t think this has been posted before

Richie Havens does Dylan

Those seven touches (five if you take away the offside and the kickoff!) were the lowest in the entire history of the Premier League and beyond. Whichever way you care to look at it, it’s a shameful, damning statistic, an indefensible testimony to Lukaku’s sheer ineptitude and ineffectiveness. If he wants the ball, let him get it, let him create space for himself and his teammates. If he wants to be on the end of a pass, let him make an intelligent run, or at the very least stop hiding behind defenders waving his arms around. And so on. Oh and while he’s at it, he needs to go on a f**king diet. As it is, our Romelu isn’t even making a pretence of justifying his presence in the starting lineup, let alone that ridiculous price tag and the obscene wages that accompany it.

Chelsea Football Club announces that a memorial service to honour and celebrate the life and career of the great Peter Bonetti will take place next month at Stamford Bridge. We lost Peter at the age of 78 in April 2020. The pandemic delayed a memorial service for our legendary goalkeeper but now fans are invited to attend the service on Friday 18 March. Peters family would like as many fans in attendance as possible to celebrate his numerous achievements, many of which took place at Stamford Bridge when he was our first choice between the posts for the majority of the 1960s and 1970s. Applications open at 10am on Wednesday 23 February for season ticket holders to apply for one seat per season ticket held. Remaining tickets will then become available on Friday 25 February for members to apply for one seat per membership. The service, led by Chelsea supporter Reverend Martin Swan who conducted a similar memorial for Peter Osgood in 2006, begins at 2.15pm. Doors will open at 1pm and the service will end after Peters ashes are interred behind the Shed End goal. The Cat, as Peter was nicknamed due to his agility and graceful movement, played the second-most games in Chelsea history with 729 appearances to his name. He was an innovator in the goalkeeping art and our first goalie to win the FA Cup having been the first to triumph in the League Cup, and was our first to win a European trophy, with outstanding displays in the finals of all three competitions. His long association with the club continued after his retirement, as a coach and then a matchday host. On 18 March we will be remembering a true Chelsea legend.

Oh do leave it out. Throughout the entire game, their players were throwing themselves to the ground at the slightest whiff of a touch, and time after time the ref fell for it. On top of that they were repeatedly getting away with murder. Can’t remember who it was, but during the first half one of their defenders threw himself at one of our players, an expertly executed tangle of legs that broke down our attack and led to a Palmeires free kick. We are the Champions of the World. f**k all this negativity,f**k ‘em all.

Anyone here do Duolingo? One of the latest adverts portrays Lukaku steaming into a pile of vegetarian sausages. “Everyone knows a banger”, goes the blurb. Yes we certainly do! So there you have it, while he should have been banging ‘em in, darling Romelu’s been stuffing his face, with veggie sausages - fried of course Who ate all the sausages? Who ate all the sausages? Who ate all the sausages? Lu, lu, lu lu, Lukaku Lu, lu, lu, lu,Lukaku

Not so long ago, I remember feeling a touch of sadness when was sold to the pikeys, thinking he was a genuinely nice bloke. Ignorance is bliss. What a prize piece of f**king sh*t he’s turned out to be. Thank God we god rid.

Utter sh*te. I do remember there was a massive amount of piss taking over the fact that he’d previously coached an under 12’s girls team, but there was no hint of any negativities based on either his race or nationality. Some fans do make me sick though, especially those fans with a tendency to look form and even invent problems within the club and it’s fanbase where none exist.

I’ve hated very few Chelsea players over the years. The last one was Christian Panucci when we had him on loan. Hate is a very strong word. Suffice it to say that I’m struggling not to detest this overweight waste of space and all he stands for. Saying he stinks the place out is a massive understatement.

Daft comment. First off, it wasn’t a League game, it was the FA Cup. Giant killings have been a feature of this competition for as long as I can remember. We’ve been on the wrong end of them before, no doubt we be will again. Today we weren’t. Given that we were poor, credit to Plymouth. They significantly raised their game, as lower league sides so often will when drawn against the likes of us, they gave us a run for our money, and they made the match moreinteresting for the neutrals. So we were sh*te, so what? All that really matters - as far as today’s game is concerned - is that we’re through to the next round of the Cup. Onwards and upwards.

Shut up you tart.

Yes he is. And he’s been displaying the full range of his attacking and defensive ability.