Blue Ram

Tuchel made a point of ciriticising Southgate when he got the job, saying how he knows what were missing and how to get us playing to win. He then did everything Southgate used to do multiplied by 10, I would love to see Southgate come out and just say "Hey Tuchel, f**k you"....

I think the only mistake he made was keeping Kane on. He could have done the same exact subs but with Watkins on to replace Kane and we would have looked much better with an outlet.

Every move we've made in this window so far has weakened our squad. That includes the addition of a fresh batch of clueless 19 year olds.
Unless we get a couple of proper players before the window closes, next season is going to be a very, very rough ride.

Sad news for us. He's been a very good, consistent defender. Far better than the French trio we spent megabucks on and now can't sell. I know the club have to raise money - and we've been good at that over the years - but his departure weakens the squad IMO.

We don't need to get past anything and it isn't nonsense. We're fans, not accountants. We have every right to be angry about out club selling a genuine talent while keeping overpriced passengers because of the clubs stupidity. Stop telling people how to feel because "that's the way things are now".

I think it also has a knock on effect on our youth players progression, increasingly a reduced number of loan placings available for progression opportunities as our loan places increasingly being used as a glorified storage facility for deadwood who we can't shift.

I think it also has a knock on effect on our youth players progression, increasingly a reduced number of loan placings available for progression opportunities as our loan places increasingly being used as a glorified storage facility for deadwood who we can't shift.

I think it also has a knock on effect on our youth players progression, increasingly a reduced number of loan placings available for progression opportunities as our loan places increasingly being used as a glorified storage facility for deadwood who we can't shift.

Im slowly coming around to the fact Reece James is the next head to roll. Honestly, our homegrown players deserve so much better than what theyve had.
We are selling a capable first team squad player to dip into and promote from our bomb squad. We should be selling the bomb squad and adding to the players who are capable of playing for us.

I think we have to applaud our SDs on a canny piece of business underlining their acumen and expertise in the market place of player trading and maximising the profit from our intense programme of player development.
Many of us on here have called the quality of these individuals into question and have often remarked upon our astonishment that they are still employed here. Idiots, clowns, frauds even, dare i say it, the word c**ts has been bandied about.
I wanted to do a deep dive into the particular highpoints of the strategy being implemented by Messrs Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, and Grubb (Winstanley, Stewart, Shields, Jewell, and Fallows) however i am not sure i could hold your collective attention for that length of time.
So i am going to gloss over the calamitous FOS sponsorship debacle, the lack of stadium development, the stunted growth of the much lauded multi club model and the fantastic financial brinkmanship from those running our institution following Behdad Egbhali's fabled comments to Sportico that the previous administration under Roman Abramovich was "not terribly well managed on the football side, sporting side or promotional side".
I am also going to let slide the innumerable young careers stalled or ruined by these people as dressing room walls were knocked down to accommodate them and just focus upon a few highlights in the glittering array of success we have witnessed.
First up has to be our poster boy, our international and club World champion that our sporting directors single handedly and craftily negotiated into joining Project CFC.LDN. Err well no actually. Egbhali had to go wading in, boy parts swinging to try and get a failing deal over the line because the release clause couldn't be met.
Okay, so let's focus on our stars, our successes. Centre stage Moises Caicedo and Cole Palmer. Um, well Moises Caicedo was a deal that they lost actually to Liverpool who were at the point of concluding the deal when Caicedo himself refused to go there in order to come to Chelsea (i'm sure with no agent collusion behind the scenes) For Cole Palmer didn't we lose out on Michael Olise because we had his brother in our academy system (who we have now released by the way) and we tried to get him to tap up Michael on our behalf. Palmer was our fall back option ("Ooh, go on then"). That's how perceptive these SDs and the model is.
I appreciate that i am rambling so i have a couple more but please add your own anecdotes where you see fit.
Hakim Ziyech was a good one. Sold, in the offices of PSG waiting to be finalised. Ziyech actually made a personal call to Boehly to get this done...and the fax machine broke. The fax machine!! Fax ffs. Lol. With the DeLorean just sitting outside waiting to eb used!
Jadon Sancho was such a piece of negotiating mastery that despite the fanbase and most of the worlds press saying its a bad idea we still went ahead with taking him on from Man Utd on the basis that he is Chels after all. That went so well we paid them £5m to give him back. These SDs paid Man Utd for us to NOT sign him.
Garnacho, these people twerked for over two or three windows again against all advice from everyone that saw this car crash in advance, including even Man Utd people. Now we are trying to shift him cos there are lots of clubs interested. Right, hmm.
Over the course of the last 20 years or so the two most prolific football academies have been those of Chelsea and Man City. Thankfully we have employees involved in both of these. One set of employees we bombed off, one set we kept. We bought Jamie Gittens (ex Man City academy) for £48.5m, and sold Tyrique George (ex Chelsea academy) for £18m. Still its about levels. Right, hmm
To finish let's focus on this ability to identify and nurture some of the brightest young talents in world football. I am not talking about Angelo Gabriel, Carney Chukwuemeka, Lesley Ugochukwu, Diego Moreira, Datro Fofana, or indeed Kendry Paez that have been or shortly will be consigned to bin. Let's look at Deivid Washington who we bought from Santos for £17.2m (or put another way for about the cost of a Pep Chavarria). Deivid went into our development squad but struggled to get game time ahead of Dujuan Richards, Charlie Runham, and Shim Mhueka. So he then went back on loan to the club that we bought him from where he has played a total of 551 minutes (about 6 matches) and scored 1 goal in the whole of last season. So we paid them £17m for their player who couldn't get a game here so we lent him back to them and he still can't get a game even there.
I appreciate that this message is long, and i apologise. But i wanted to highlight that we shouldn't show our angst or any form of disappointment in us selling Andrey Santos on for a profit. Instead lets all bask in the glory that these mindless, cretinous f*cksticks have actually for once completed one single task from their collective job description in four fkign years.
For the love of god, smite these fckers please.

It's done.

From fb - Chelsea rewind and liked this comment,
'I took my nephew Aedan to his first game. He was ten or eleven. He got a couple of autographs. Ken was standing there. So I told Aedan who he was. Aedan awestruck said “ you own Chelsea!?” . Ken smiled and said “ I’m only looking after it , until you’re old enough to take over “. Aedan beamed… 🥹"
RIP Ken

Back in the 80s, my Mum wrote to him saying that me, my Dad and my brother, all season ticket holders, were getting a ton of stick from West Ham fans as we lived in Essex. School was a nightmare, particularly in 86, when West Ham had their one decent year. Back in those days, there was only two Chelsea fans at my school, me and my younger brother.
Ken wrote back, thanking us for our support in foreign territory, and a few days later a thank you card arrived signed by all the players (Kerry, Pat, Speedie et al)……

R I P Ken
Met him a few times. May 84 Grand Hotel Manchester. 250 invited to dinner after the game with City. Great meal and sing song until 2am.
83/84 reunion last year at the Bridge. In good form on stage with some great stories.
Saw him at Cardiff before game where it was difficult to get into seats due to an issue. Ken came over to talk with police and stewards to sort it out.
He was especially proud of our travelling support. The numbers and the noise we made making it a home game.
Great Man. He would certainly tell the current owners a few home truths!!

On the afternoon promotion was won in 1984.
Thank You Ken. For saving our club.
R.I.P.

I hope whoever pushed to sign him is given their marching orders as well.

Every time these owners kick a goal, it turns out to be with a grenade

Its a missed opportunity for the owners to have built a little goodwill between themselves and supporters, many owners that make mistakes and shoot themselves in the foot so to speak, however ours seem to shoot themselves in both feet on a regular basis.

I don't think a £14.99 fee for the service is too bad. What's bad is that they've hidden the new managers first interview behind it. That should be free and available for all fans worldwide.

"As I hope you understand the club needs to have revenue in order to compete,"
No sh1t Sherlock but obviously not that important that you can apparently do without Shirt sponsorship deals revenue for the past few years and have made zero progress on the biggest revenue problem - stadium redevelopment.

Yeah, it's just optics.
The fact they've fumbled a FOS for 4 straight years and no movement on new stadium.

What you're saying is true but it just lacks credibility coming from people who literally leave money on the table by not getting a FOS for 4 seasons and spend absurd amounts of money on players who are just not worth it over and over again.

"As I hope you understand the club needs to have revenue in order to compete,"
No sh1t Sherlock but obviously not that important that you can apparently do without Shirt sponsorship deals revenue for the past few years and have made zero progress on the biggest revenue problem - stadium redevelopment.

You can rarely say that without person X a football club wouldn't exist and have it be entirely true.
In Ken's case it is 100% true. Sure he had his faults, don't we all, but he was our faulty bustard and we owe him a debt of honour that money could never have bought in that particular era of football.

A very sad day and can only echo the sentiments of so many on here.
RIP Ken.