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The Mail and the Sun running with this.

British businessman who is a Man Utd supporter and richer than Abramovich has had his offer for the club turned down.

This chaps watches most of his football at Chelsea as it is his local club.

This should convince RA to get his chequebook out,

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/sport/american-football/roman-abramovich-rejects-approach-to-sell-chelsea-as-britains-richest-man-and-manchester-united-fan-jim-ratcliffe-makes-an-approach-to-buy/ar-AAyp8rL?ocid=spartandhp

 

 

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I'm glad he's turned him down flat. Roman has proven time and time again he loves this club and I'm not sure a change of ownership is what we need.

What we do need is to start using the amazing youth team better. Lofus-Cheek was good for England the other night, it's time he got starts.

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3 hours ago, TheFunkeyGibbon said:

I'm glad he's turned him down flat. Roman has proven time and time again he loves this club and I'm not sure a change of ownership is what we need.

What we do need is to start using the amazing youth team better. Lofus-Cheek was good for England the other night, it's time he got starts.

The youth while romantic is not the answer in this high power league i'm afraid, the answer is cash to back the manager, RLC and Tammy arent winning us the league or improving the bench even 

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8 hours ago, ScrubsLaneCFC said:

The youth while romantic is not the answer in this high power league i'm afraid, the answer is cash to back the manager, RLC and Tammy arent winning us the league or improving the bench even 

Because great footballers appear out of nowhere at the age of 25. They were all youth once. Tottenham trusted Harry Kane over that donkey Soldado, look how that turned out. When was the last time we found a good young talent, been a long time, why? Certainly not because we dont have the talent, look at the achievements of our youth squad! We just give them no chance, we would rather persist with that clumsy Bakayoko than give RLC a chance. He had a great spell at Palace, has deserved his place in the England squad. Would love to see him in the first 11 for us next year, but sadly I anticipate us buying another flavour of the month 40m flop and persisting with him further stunting RLC's development. 

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1 hour ago, Jackbuchanan said:

Because great footballers appear out of nowhere at the age of 25. They were all youth once. Tottenham trusted Harry Kane over that donkey Soldado, look how that turned out. When was the last time we found a good young talent, been a long time, why? Certainly not because we dont have the talent, look at the achievements of our youth squad! We just give them no chance, we would rather persist with that clumsy Bakayoko than give RLC a chance. He had a great spell at Palace, has deserved his place in the England squad. Would love to see him in the first 11 for us next year, but sadly I anticipate us buying another flavour of the month 40m flop and persisting with him further stunting RLC's development. 

The Soldado example is silly but you're right. The way forward is to blood youth players instead of spending 200m a summer. Whether or not a change in ownership would change how the club operates we'll never know. 

I'm glad Roman has supposedly turned the offer down. 

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2 hours ago, Jackbuchanan said:

Because great footballers appear out of nowhere at the age of 25. They were all youth once. Tottenham trusted Harry Kane over that donkey Soldado, look how that turned out. When was the last time we found a good young talent, been a long time, why? Certainly not because we dont have the talent, look at the achievements of our youth squad! We just give them no chance, we would rather persist with that clumsy Bakayoko than give RLC a chance. He had a great spell at Palace, has deserved his place in the England squad. Would love to see him in the first 11 for us next year, but sadly I anticipate us buying another flavour of the month 40m flop and persisting with him further stunting RLC's development. 

No they appear from other clubs when you pay for them, hence you buy from other clubs, no team produces a first 11 of their homegrown youth mate don't be silly, if a big team brings through 1 player from their youth academy to the first team that is a star every 5 years they have done well. 

In our league the answer is good scouting and money to back manager, Tottenham have come on some very good players relatively cheap but that's not a sustainable model, what is sustainable is being commercially successful and reinvesting to stay an elite team, youth don't really come into this picture at all in 2018 football, like it or not these are the facts of reality, our youth team is good they do their job and make us money, RCL is a decent player but never would we pay money for him to improve our team, or any of our other youth they just aren't good enough, it's not easy to make it at elite level, this is just reality. 

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18 hours ago, ScrubsLaneCFC said:

The youth while romantic is not the answer in this high power league i'm afraid, the answer is cash to back the manager, RLC and Tammy arent winning us the league or improving the bench even 

Do you not think we have players from the youth team that could do the job of the Zappacostas/Eduardos etc rather than paying millions for squad fillers. 

For me 17 year old Ampadu who we signed for peanuts and RLC had better seasons than £40mil Bakayoko. 

Hudson-Odoi looked a lot brighter and more effective in his brief cameos than Pedro has most of the season (bar his stunning goal he scores every 10 teams). 

I’d personally rather give these guys opportunities and invest the money saved in to first team players. Marina won’t have to be such a tight arse all summer then panic on deadline day too!

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5 hours ago, Munkworth said:

Do you not think we have players from the youth team that could do the job of the Zappacostas/Eduardos etc rather than paying millions for squad fillers. 

For me 17 year old Ampadu who we signed for peanuts and RLC had better seasons than £40mil Bakayoko. 

Hudson-Odoi looked a lot brighter and more effective in his brief cameos than Pedro has most of the season (bar his stunning goal he scores every 10 teams). 

I’d personally rather give these guys opportunities and invest the money saved in to first team players. Marina won’t have to be such a tight arse all summer then panic on deadline day too!

Yea probably could, but my initial comment was based on someone saying bringing through youth will fix our troubles it won't, I would rather the scenario you said absolutely but in the context of improving us no, unless we save money on squad fillers and invest it in big players then I'm totally with that, it's not a bad shout, having said that when we sell on squad fillers we usually don't lose money 

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On 10/06/2018 at 21:31, ScrubsLaneCFC said:

No they appear from other clubs when you pay for them, hence you buy from other clubs, no team produces a first 11 of their homegrown youth mate don't be silly, if a big team brings through 1 player from their youth academy to the first team that is a star every 5 years they have done well. 

In our league the answer is good scouting and money to back manager, Tottenham have come on some very good players relatively cheap but that's not a sustainable model, what is sustainable is being commercially successful and reinvesting to stay an elite team, youth don't really come into this picture at all in 2018 football, like it or not these are the facts of reality, our youth team is good they do their job and make us money, RCL is a decent player but never would we pay money for him to improve our team, or any of our other youth they just aren't good enough, it's not easy to make it at elite level, this is just reality. 

Loftus Cheek is better than all of our centre midfield bar kante and fabregas.

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16 hours ago, Jackbuchanan said:

Loftus Cheek is better than all of our centre midfield bar kante and fabregas.

Right, so our starting midfielders then, so he doesn't improve our first team, it's easy to say he is better than Bakayoko because Baka has had some poor games and an injury but he isn't better than Baka not a chance, and he is by far our best youth player still not improving the team and barely the squad, you know the point you're trying to circumvent it but it's a fact, youth aren't going to improve our team, except by making us money to re-invest in the team.

No one club can produce enough talent to have serious impact on a first team it doesn't happen at this level it's fantasy, maybe in Spain because of the national talent and 2 teams to choose from but not in England, name me a team doing that in modern football? Even Man U famed for its youth has only pulled it off once in history in a very different league. 

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The youth while romantic is not the answer in this high power league i'm afraid, the answer is cash to back the manager, RLC and Tammy arent winning us the league or improving the bench even 


Where do you think good young players come from? They need a chance and RLC, Ampadu, Hudson-Odoi and Gilmore need chances.
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13 hours ago, TheFunkeyGibbon said:

 


Where do you think good young players come from? They need a chance and RLC, Ampadu, Hudson-Odoi and Gilmore need chances.

 

You are missing the point, OUR youth won't improve US, all good youth, if good enough will shine, doesn't matter where. KDB went to Wolfsberg he showed what he can do, Salah went to florentina, Kante was league 2 in France a few years ago, you don't need ushered through an elite team to make it, if they were good enough they would play, it's their job to show themselves good enough not our job to weaken the team to pamper youth players, when any one youth player is good enough to start for Chelsea he will start guaranteed, we have only had 1 in the last 15 years so waiting for a squad fu of them, isn't going to improve the team is it?

Using that video just shows that you are being unrealistic, you are trying to make the exception the rule, everything Hansen said was correct in principle, just liek if I said you fall out a plane with no parachute you will die, that's correct, but some people have done that, are you going to use that as a template, a good solid plan? Name someone else who used youth as a core or a big part of their squad and won anything in the last 10 years? You can't never happened, but let me guess if we just give RLC and Odoi the chance they will be teh ones to do it, again not a realistic plan, hence the people paid lots of money to make these choices don't do it....

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