Big Nigel

west ham are a joke, thank god we dodged this bullet! 100m for Rice is insanity

did waste a lot, but in all fairness we did recoup a reasonable chunk of that back through constantly loaning him out every season

The conspiracy theory only really stacks up if those players are being sold for big transfer fees. Broadly we seem to just be shifting them for their value. Only the Saudi league is currently prepared to pay the value AND the wages those players wants. 
If all those players were happy to take a 50% cut in wages, we'd have many suitors at the same transfer fees. 

And it would be great if they named one of the toilets at Stamford Bridge after Romelu Lukaku.
Need a number two? Use the Romuloo.

thats because those 3 we sold to united once they were past their best and in their twilight years. Mount is still quite young.
Truth of the matter is that no club wants him apart from united who are well known to make crap signings anyway

ill be honest I skipped over the wilkins bit and was more thinking of Mata and Matic who were both over the hill. wasnt old enough!
I really hope we do accept the offer because the chances are that if we dont accept it we lose out on 55m (at least) pure profit for ffp because next summer we'll lose him for free 

I have no idea why it's bad to hang out with friends.

exactly this, the salary is the biggest concern. 
Also, now with the multiclub model it should be far easier to "sell" some of these unwanted players as we can just send to strasbourg or something as a worst case scenario

I think if he had stayed this season, he would have looked a lot better than at times he has the season just gone. Definitely had a few very good games for us, but sadly was sullied by some of the terrible performances he had. The fact we have Colwill coming back and that he was on 300k a week, it was a good move all round for us to sell him. Hes a religious individual as well, so going to Saudi with his family really does favour all parties here.
Good luck to him and his family, and I hope he has a good career in Saudi

they've agreed personals, but so did we before so thats not really an issue.
Main problem is the fee Leipzig want. Also doesn't help that we've lost Kova to City, and that seems like a factor in all of this for Gvardiol as they are international team mates

I think we were operating like a proper club from the very beginning, however because of the speed in which everything was done it seemed like a mess. This sort of process whereby a whole club is taken over, entire board changes, recruitment and scouting changes and whole managerial/backroom staff and players changing whilst also building squad and trying to rectify the mistakes made by the previous regime and also looking to buy stakes in other clubs and start a multi club model... Is usually something that takes several years, and it has been done in about 12 months which is pretty insane. Of course there have been some mistakes, but in all honesty not that many in my eyes.

Was it a mistake to spend as much as we did last summer without having a proper board/recruitment in place? Yes.
Was it a mistake to sack Tuchel when we did and hire potter into this mess as a project manager? Yes
Was it a mistake to sack potter without giving him enough time, and giving the reigns to the hopeless lampard? Yes
But outside of those things, everything else we've done has been good, it just seems crazy when everything happens so fast, but now that we are clearing the squad of deadwood and building the squad back up to an elite level whilst being very clever in the way we do transfers (selling to saudi's, long contracts for ffp etc) I think its clear to see that this ownership is very smart and they certainly do know what they're doing 

what a player we have on our hands, needs to focus and work on his end product a bit (finishing, final pass etc) and we'll have some gem in our team

Majority of the posters in here dont understand football or the technicalities of it. They only understand passion shown and kilometers ran so id rather not take their word for it. I watched all the potter games and in a lot of them we dominated, including champions league games against dortmund and in the group stages against AC milan. 
Potters last few games for us:
L Chelsea 0-2 Villa - 2.16-0.92 xG in our favour
L Chelsea 2-2 Everton - 2.37-1.27 xG in our favour
W Chelsea 3-1 Leicester
W Chelsea 2-0 Dortmund
W Chelsea 1-0 Leeds

So clearly we were doing somewhat okay? Even the games we lost, we actually dominated them and if we could finish we would have won. 
Those % minutes are a moot stat as all those players joined in january, and it would have taken them some time to adjust first as well before they could really play for the side, by which point Potter was already sacked at the beginning of April. 

im not abusing lampard, Im just capable of knowing the difference between what he did for us as a player vs his wretched time as a manager. I just dont rate him higher than Terry or Drogba both as a player or a legend of the club. They're the same person biologically, but not in the same capacity. If you've spent years on an online forum only discussing football with people of the same certain demographic then its probably why your opinions and views on football are so out of touch and dated.

 

what a c**t, he so badly wants the move. Doesnt give a sh*t about the club, got to the point where he's threatening chelsea now
 

If they still want you then, Mase.
Looks like the difference is 10mill, so maybe give up your signing on bonus and first years wages so United can cough up the extra if you are so desperate to move eh?

what a c**t, he so badly wants the move. Doesnt give a sh*t about the club, got to the point where he's threatening chelsea now
 

I don't hope he does well. Him doing well for them hurts us, I hope he ends up as poor for them as he has been for us for the past 16 months.

We can only hope that isn't the case though, can't we? I do think you have a point in fairness. I do remember many of us were hopeful of Werner and were extremely impressed with him initially. Before he turned into the reincarnation of Fernando Torres with his depressingly hilarious blunders in front of goal. 

I'm hopeful of Nkunku, and you should be too. He looks good, of course we should be wary, but we can't just keep writing every player off because we've signed a load of sh*t ones. Something has got to give eventually. I am hoping the banter era of transfers is officially over, maybe I'm delusional I don't know. I just know that since 2017 our market activity has been utterly atrocious, here's to new beginnings! 

what a player we have on our hands, needs to focus and work on his end product a bit (finishing, final pass etc) and we'll have some gem in our team

what a player we have on our hands, needs to focus and work on his end product a bit (finishing, final pass etc) and we'll have some gem in our team

oh 100%, I was merely just talking about performance wise. As a servant to the club Willian was stellar. Sure he wasnt as good the last couple years here, but if you were to ask me whether id have a prime willian or prime mount? Willian 100 times out of 100

I'm not too sure why they really want him in the first place, neither are most United fans from what I'm seeing. Might as well sell Mount to them now before they start looking at actual elite prospects like Caicedo/Barella instead

The only consolation is that I'm pretty sure he's going to flop hugely at Man United, like most of their other signings do. He isn't as good as Bruno Fernandes to play #10, and as a CM he's been completely mediocre whilst he was here.
 
 

He's a bigger snake than Courtois. Courtois went to Real Madrid, not our domestic rivals, nor was Courtois a former academy player either.
 
This kind of disloyalty Mount is showing is surprising even by the standards of the modern game. 

he is a snake and a bigger one than Tibo because he managed to fool most this fanbase with his pathetic claps after constantly dropping 1/10 performances