Old Shaggy

I don't believe it for a second. But it's a rumour concerning Chelsea, so I posted it.

Interesting. Maybe coming to Chelsea will be the break he needs. Although we would need to move on one or two defenders.

Manchester United and Chelsea 'eye £62m summer swoop' for Bayern Munich midfielder Thiago Alcantara http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-5989341/Manchester-United-Chelsea-eye-62m-summer-swoop-Bayern-Munich-midfielder-Thiago-Alcantara.html

LEON KING Arsenal and Chelsea on red alert as Leon Bailey looks to force Premier League transfer https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/6856985/arsenal-chelsea-transfer-news-leon-bailey/

Good luck to him. 1 fantastic season with us, and one poor season which ended with a trophy. No hatred for the guy, but a change was needed.

He hasn't officially been given any number. The numbers are distributed in pre-season on a game by game basis. I he stays, he will be given an official number when he's been registered.

Sounds very much like someone' trying to save face.

BIB, erm... Yes! Hence the reason not too many of our fans would be sorry to see him flap off!

I'll just put this out there for those going on about signing players that Sarri wants: “I talk with our Sporting Director once a week, but he can do whatever he wants. I’m an unusual coach, I don’t care about the transfer market”.

What is with certain fans, this obsession with player sell-on value!? We've (maybe) purchased a player to improve the squad, not for future profit! If we buy Jorginho for £65m and sell him on in 3/4 years for £5m, then so be it! It's what he does for us in between that matters ffs!

Deary me.

Now I'm really looking forward to the new season. Welcome Sarri, here's to a successful future with Chelsea!

Au contraire, I see it all the time on all of Chelsea' forums. Our fans are just as bad as every other clubs fans (maybe not Liverpool) when it comes to transfers. I've seen it for years from all fans. No club has better fans than any other!

Worse result of the tournament so far. Heartbreaking for Japan!

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMbappe. Probably the best individual performance of the tournament for me so far. And at 19!

RLC has been ok since he came on as well.

Boring boring England.

No thread for this even though we're in the second half. Boring match mind. Been like watching Chelsea last season.

Wow, this thread is more RAWKish than RAWK!

My Spidey senses are tingling now. Something isn't right at the club.

Arsenal won the FA Cup the season before, did that make them better than Spurs City and Liverpool? We all know the best teams don't necessarily win in the Cup competitions, we even won the Champions League while finishing 5th in the League! Anyway, I feel like all I've done on here today is argue 1 pointless argument after another, so I'm done today. I'll put you all in your place another time perhaps.

Well unfortunately the game of football is not played on paper. And as they were above us where it mattered, I'd say judging by this season just gone, they were better than us. So now we start again next season and we'll see who is better all over again.

We finished below them because they were better than us last season. It's as simple as that! We don't know what happened behind closed doors between Conte and The Board. And we have no idea what's happening now with regards to Conte/Sarri and The Board. P.S. Explain to me what you mean by "We are above them in almost every regard".

The BIB encompasses everything wrong with modern fans. The sense of entitlement in some of the posts in this thread is diabolical. We have no divine right to finish above any of the clubs competing with us! Tottenham and Liverpool have both employed managers who have improved them massively from where they were. They both finished above us in the Champions League places and rightly deserved to be there. We on the other hand had a poor transfer window last season and for whatever reason managed a massive drop in form from Christmas onward.

Obviously sarcasm is lost on you, so in the future I'll try to be straight to the point so you understand me. On the issue of mediocrity, I feel like I could argue with a few of you until I'm blue in the face, and still you would tell me I'm wrong. So my last word on the subject is this: Our club is one of the top 6 clubs in this country, and among the top 20 clubs in world football. The obvious aim of the club is to be one of, if not the best clubs in the world! And if I'm honest, the club have done a bloody good job over the past 15 or so years. The club may have made a fudge of things here or there, but on a whole we've managed to be the most successful club in the country over the past 15 years. So if you want to cry every time we have a sh*t transfer window, or if the club doesn't feel the need to keep you informed of every stage of the process of hiring a new manager, then so be it. I'll just sit here and patiently wait for the season to start, and judge the clubs decisions once the season's finished!