not 100% sure I understand this. The public chase of Enzo which is a position we clearly need to improve on, and refusal to pay his release clause only to then go and pay £100m for another forward. 

I want to believe that Boehly and co know what they are doing or trying to do but decisions like this are staggering. 

Looks good from compilations, how many left wingers would we have if he joined though? 

9 minutes ago, Drogba1 said:

Looks good from compilations, how many left wingers would we have if he joined though? 

How many good ones is the real question...

This club is actually going down the pan by throwing silly money. A self inflicted death looms. Incredible.

1 minute ago, KonaKai Blue said:

This club is actually going down the pan by throwing silly money. A self inflicted death looms. Incredible.

And the nearly decade long contracts!

We better bloody pray all our signings work out (they won't though) or we may as well just pack it up as a top club.

20 minutes ago, mwblue10 said:

Ornstein and Simon Johnson reporting that Mudryk is open to joining Chelsea, so I guess that’s good. If he does agree to come, shouldn’t we be happy? We’d basically done to Arsenal what Barcelona did to us last summer. The player is good.

He does look good and is willing to take on players, which we desperately need.

Get this done and then get a midfielder and this could turn out to be a decent window after all.

The only reason I can think of as to why we are coughing up £100 million for this lad over Enzo is that we can pay over instalments rather than all up front in the Enzo deal.

Hard to trust the process when our transfer policy seem to be utter made up madness.  Absolutely bonkers.  

16 minutes ago, drjonesy1994 said:

not 100% sure I understand this. The public chase of Enzo which is a position we clearly need to improve on, and refusal to pay his release clause only to then go and pay £100m for another forward. 

I want to believe that Boehly and co know what they are doing or trying to do but decisions like this are staggering. 

This is the most ridiculous thing and cannot be true, surely. To low ball on a £100m deal to sign a player that wanted to join us to the point where the manager was saying it was driving the player crazy (b*llsh*t of course) only to then agree a £100m deal for a player that has no interest in joining us and wants to go to Arsenal.

Nah, don't believe it.

Agreed on player side now, as well

25 minutes ago, drjonesy1994 said:

not 100% sure I understand this. The public chase of Enzo which is a position we clearly need to improve on, and refusal to pay his release clause only to then go and pay £100m for another forward. 

I want to believe that Boehly and co know what they are doing or trying to do but decisions like this are staggering. 

I think the structure is the key difference in the 2 situations. Enzo was a release clause that had to be paid all at once. By reports, the Mudryk deal is going to be in installments with about 70m euros up front.

Who cares, we need players like Mudryk to take us up a level.

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is embarrassing, absolute scattergun transfer approach. We've got absolutely no idea what we are doing. 

29 minutes ago, drjonesy1994 said:

not 100% sure I understand this. The public chase of Enzo which is a position we clearly need to improve on, and refusal to pay his release clause only to then go and pay £100m for another forward. 

I want to believe that Boehly and co know what they are doing or trying to do but decisions like this are staggering. 

My theory is we offered 80m+40m in add ons for Enzo and we've offered 65m+35m in add ons for mudryk. 

But benfica didn't mention the add ons when they slagged us off.

Boehly seems to like add ons. 

6 minutes ago, Malcolm9 said:

Who cares, we need players like Mudryk to take us up a level.

 

 

 

 

 

 

If he doesn't then we are absolutely screwed. And it will feel worse for fans like me who can see it coming. I hope I'm wrong but I can see a big s£it storm flaring up in a few years. These yanks don't understand football and finances around the transfer market.

3 minutes ago, KonaKai Blue said:

If he doesn't then we are absolutely screwed. And it will feel worse for fans like me who can see it coming. I hope I'm wrong but I can see a big s£it storm flaring up in a few years. These yanks don't understand football and finances around the transfer market.

Yeah, these multi billionaire hugely successful businessmen bought a football club without fully undertaking the finances of football.....

2 minutes ago, KonaKai Blue said:

If he doesn't then we are absolutely screwed. And it will feel worse for fans like me who can see it coming. I hope I'm wrong but I can see a big s£it storm flaring up in a few years. These yanks don't understand football and finances around the transfer market.

Well it's a 10m a year amortised fee. That's about the same as what we paid for Felix for 4 months!

If he's good then it goes up. That's not an awful figure

6 minutes ago, bisright1 said:

Well it's a 10m a year amortised fee. That's about the same as what we paid for Felix for 4 months!

If he's good then it goes up. That's not an awful figure

Wages? Cos Arsenal were offering him £120k/w, you can bet Boehly has him closer to £200k/w. We better hope these signings don’t flop.

4 minutes ago, ducavis said:

Wages? Cos Arsenal were offering him £120k/w, you can bet Boehly has him closer to £200k/w. We better hope these signings don’t flop.

Well the rumours on why mounts contract not going through is because we offered him a wage structure that was dependent on performing, not 200k flat. 

So I'd imagine whatever wage we have offered, in a significant chunk depends on him actually playing. 

And the rate our players get injured he will only play 10 games a season 😂

43 minutes ago, dkw said:

Yeah, these multi billionaire hugely successful businessmen bought a football club without fully undertaking the finances of football.....

Everton's owner is a hugely successful multi-billionaire but they are in the relegation zone..

2 minutes ago, Edjmendy said:

Everton's owner is a hugely successful multi-billionaire but they are in the relegation zone..

What's that got to do with what I wrote?

2 hours ago, dkw said:

Yeah, these multi billionaire hugely successful businessmen bought a football club without fully undertaking the finances of football.....

Such an ignorant response.......many huge successful businessmen have failed in running sporting entities due to finance mismanagement and poor investments.

https://therealchamps.com/2023/01/14/chelsea-agree-deal-real-madrid-target/

According to this sh*te website, every player in the universe is a Real Madrid target. 

11 hours ago, KonaKai Blue said:

Such an ignorant response.......many huge successful businessmen have failed in running sporting entities due to finance mismanagement and poor investments.

What happened to the two clowns that has Liverpool before Henry. Gillette and Hicks. 

On 14/01/2023 at 17:51, KonaKai Blue said:

This club is actually going down the pan by throwing silly money. A self inflicted death looms. Incredible.

Quite the opposite i think, we're building a super team of players that'll be available for us for the next decade rather than the usual policy of stop gaps under Roman.

On 14/01/2023 at 18:17, KonaKai Blue said:

If he doesn't then we are absolutely screwed. And it will feel worse for fans like me who can see it coming. I hope I'm wrong but I can see a big s£it storm flaring up in a few years. These yanks don't understand football and finances around the transfer market.

£64m over a 7.5 year contract is £8.5m per year for FFP, drop in the ocean. £97k a week contract too. Boehly making some fantastic moves at the moment.