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Losing a world class player like this is fine only because Man City is not the same Man City anymore and more importantly, Xabi Alonso can make a better team without Enzo anyway.

Enzo world class since day 1.
Rice never world class, never will be.

Sadly I believe that in everyone's top 5 worst ever transfers that there should be one particular name in no particular order;

Lukaku.
I say sadly because Tuchel was otherwise a really good manager.

So bad it can only be money laundering

Giving it some thought, this is harder to answer than I initially expected.
The notoriously expensive (in contemporary context) disasters often have caveats; Torres scored a decisive goal in the Europa League Final, and was part of our first Champions League-winning squad, and not to mention scored that goal against Barcelona. Kepa was also part of a Europa League-winning side, and has provided a number of memorable moments in penalty shoot-outs (including one against Tottenham in a League Cup semi). Most of the egregiously overpriced squad players who turned out to be sh*te didn't actually impact the squad all that negatively and barely presented a drop in the ocean financially or in terms of overall negative impact. (Veron, Drinkwater, Rahman, etc.) Even Shevchenko scored that belter against Tottenham!
The world in which we have existed for the past two decades has made it hard for an individual signing to be all that harmful. Should Tiemoué Bakayoko and Danny Drinkwater prove to be 70 million pounds' worth of idiot, an über-wealthy club can simply spend a further 90 million pounds on Jorginho and Mateo Kovačić the following summer and immediately rectify the problem. What does it matter if Juan Cuadrado doesn't work out straight away when six months later you can go out and buy Pedro Rodriguez? After our two worst transfer windows in recent memory we've finished 10th and 5th; on each occasion, the following season we have qualified for the Champions' League and won a major trophy.
While it is tempting to shrug and simply pick five expensive players I don't like, I think the most harmful transfers would have to come from before a time in which we have so much money that potential negative impact is almost entirely mitigated. I'm in my thirties so have only ever known a Chelsea in the top flight, and even as a kid we were in a position to sign Chris Sutton for £10m, realise he's sh*t, sign Ballon d'Or winner George Weah on loan in January to cover the remainder of the season, win the FA Cup and finish in the quarter-finals of the Champions' League, then spend £15m on Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink the following summer. Realistically the answer to this question came during a time when the stakes were far higher, and the club wasn't in a position to simply spend their way out of trouble, i.e. before I was born.

w**kers had the audacity to forecast £700m in revenue next year 😂.
No FOS. No new Stadium. No Champions League.
Gaslight your way out of this one your horrid miserable c**ts.

Roman should have a statue and the new owners should be put in jail.

Hard to believe at half time I still had some hope of getting something out of this today.
I don't recognise my club anymore.

By being total gash. Great supporting role.

That’s the only positive from this game

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/apr/11/real-talk-chelsea-punished-enzo-fernandez-for-exposing-projects-fatal-flaw

Don't worry people we are in safe hands here, Enzo is the lion of Chelsea FC.

I said it before and I'll say it again. Trust in Enzo to solve the match once again.

I said it before and I'll say it again. Trust in Enzo to solve the match once again.

"The message at half-time, because even if we were 2-0 down in the first half and the performance was not good, but from the bench I could see that the plan we prepared was the right one. So in the first half the message was just continue to trust what we do. It is a matter of scoring the first one and if we are able to do that we have a chance to win the game. So this was my message at half-time."
Great job by avoiding defeat and for putting in Enzo for some hardcore leadership.

I thought he was good, just really frustrating when it came to his shooting. Had he scored 1 or 2 from his chances I'm sure people would look at his performance differently.
Tracked back very well and helped Cucu defensively, his movement off the ball to create the chances is very good and I like how direct he is when he does get the ball. He is still young, decision making isn't going to be the greatest at this point in time but you can see the clear potential there.
I have no issues with a young winger trying to make things happen and making mistakes along the way, it's going to happen and its way better than the alternative.

Turns out we are 100% a better team when Enzo plays. Oh well.

Turns out we are 100% a better team when Enzo plays. Oh well.

Turns out we are 100% a better team when Enzo plays. Oh well.

Turns out we are 100% a better team when Enzo plays. Oh well.

Turns out we are 100% a better team when Enzo plays. Oh well.

Quite easily.

Time for ENZO to take the title away from the fake pretender Rice, what a magical moment of truth awaits us!

Time for ENZO to take the title away from the fake pretender Rice, what a magical moment of truth awaits us!

After I learned that Chelsea's first match of the new PL season was sold out I took the time to find some nice footages of some nice fans that are maybe not that known. In Argentina the most famous clubs are Boca Juniors and River Plate and their fans are well known to be some of the most passionate in the whole world, so much passionate that their final match in Copa Libertadores in 2018 couldn't be held in Argentina but was instead held in Santiago Bernabeu in which River Plate won the Copa Libertadores that year.
The fans I wanted to show are from a club called San Lorenzo that is also from Buenos Aires and that is considered to be among the top 5 clubs in Argentina.

This is a nice report about the club:
 
A real football celebration ahead of the Copa Libertadores final in 2014:
 
The fans: