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14 hours ago, 19seventyone said:

What really gets me is Maresca’s system looks like it’s quite complicated and I’d imagine a more experienced set of players might make it work better.

It’s not complicated at all, in fact it’s really simple.

Just go out there and make it the most dull unimaginable game possible.

Instead of having your Wingers or AM’s (players who have ATTACKED their whole careers) taking on defenders have a f**king LB who can’t defend in the slightest constantly getting in the way by ‘inverting’.

Instead of counterattacking just recycle the ball back to a GK who is beyond a liability with his feet.

And if ANYONE dares to do something creative or entertaining they’re dropped.

Marescaball in a nutshell.

On 06/04/2025 at 05:01, Sconnie Blue said:

Romano reporting Gittens high on our list.

Think we were tracking him before he even went to Dortmund, he is reported to have had a stint at Cobham as a kid. Definitely one of the most-hyped youth talents for England even in the current era.

Really good player but looking at his injury record, he'd fit right in

4 hours ago, DarkMata said:

Links to Rodrygo £120. I can’t think of a bigger waste of money. Overrated and overpriced. Probably nonsense anyway, cant see us paying the wages anyway.

I think he’s a great player but not a chance he ends up Chelsea imo

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    14 minutes ago, Caps_Lock_King said:

    SALAH signs a nice new contract 375k a week

    Haaland 525k

    Victor Gyokeres 76k (euros) with bonus,

    Victor Osimhen 193k (euros)

    Mateta 50k

    Delap 40k

    i wonder who our owners are hoping to get?

    Some unknown under 20 which they'll overpay for and hope that in 5 years' time he'll have developed all that potential the SDs saw....

    FROM CHELSEA CONFIDENTIAL

    First, the good stuff – Chelsea’s financial accounts released this week showed their wage bill dropping from £353m per year in 2023 to £295m per year in 2024. That shows how quickly the shakeup of the squad has lowered costs, and we could yet see it fall further.

    But of course, there’s a trade-off. Paying more money doesn’t guarantee you better players, but it improve your odds. The only things that’s dropped as precipitously as our wage bill in the last few years is our trophy count.

    And it could yet get worse. The quotes Gill has from the entourage of a striker that Chelsea have been trying to sign recently are a reminder that paying less has its consequences.

    “I’m told [the striker] will not be turning up at Stamford Bridge any time soon because, according to the agent, there are others who have been instantly willing to go higher in the weekly wages he would be guaranteed to take home,” Gill wrote.

    “That includes one club currently situated in the bottom half of the Premier League. ‘Chelsea don’t pay salaries,’ the source said, simply.”

    MY guess is Osimhen and its Man utd

    7 hours ago, Caps_Lock_King said:

    FROM CHELSEA CONFIDENTIAL

    First, the good stuff – Chelsea’s financial accounts released this week showed their wage bill dropping from £353m per year in 2023 to £295m per year in 2024. That shows how quickly the shakeup of the squad has lowered costs, and we could yet see it fall further.

    But of course, there’s a trade-off. Paying more money doesn’t guarantee you better players, but it improve your odds. The only things that’s dropped as precipitously as our wage bill in the last few years is our trophy count.

    And it could yet get worse. The quotes Gill has from the entourage of a striker that Chelsea have been trying to sign recently are a reminder that paying less has its consequences.

    “I’m told [the striker] will not be turning up at Stamford Bridge any time soon because, according to the agent, there are others who have been instantly willing to go higher in the weekly wages he would be guaranteed to take home,” Gill wrote.

    “That includes one club currently situated in the bottom half of the Premier League. ‘Chelsea don’t pay salaries,’ the source said, simply.”

    MY guess is Osimhen and its Man utd

    My guess is Delap.

    12 hours ago, Scott Harris said:

    My guess is Delap.

    Very much sounds like it.

    United are under some financial stranglehold this summer but will always provide higher wages than us. If they win Europa all the more incentive for Delap to join.

    For a while now I've concluded that Delap is just too similar to Jackson in the way they play football. Look at 99% of the matches we've played against sides that park inside their box, we are forced to cross to virtually no one. This is why profile wise I reckon Sesko would be the best choice. Only 21 and this is the third season in a row he's hit 18 goals.

    CB I think Guehi is the best we can possibly do. Use Chalobah as part of the deal.

    This is of course assuming Maresca stays and tweedle dee and tweedle dumbass continue calling the shots upstairs.

    • 2 weeks later...

    Apparently the latest is that we after Juventus forward Kenan Yildiz, 19 - although he does turn 20 next week, so he may have aged out already? The newspapers described him as a forward. But he is really a creative CM who can also play on the wing. He is a tall lad 6ft 2". So we could play him as a centre forward maybe?

    At this stage of BlueCo's tenure, I couldn't give a toss who they bring in.

    It's nigh on impossible to form any sort of bond with any of the players in this "player-trading" model they are hell bent on implementing.

    And many of the ones that they seem intent on keeping around as our so-called "spine" are the players I like the least, based on lack of ability, dubious character, or both !

    Players I do like are the ones they loan, flip or don't even give a chance to.

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