Think Todd is getting too much stick.  We have no idea the level of restructuring taking place behind the scenes,  Values appear high, but bigger picture Sterling, Koulibaly and Cucurella is good business.  We have somewhere near 60 games next year with a WC in there also - maintaining intensity, particularly in WB positions is critical to our formation.

Colwill on loan is great, and if we can sign one more CB, and then add a midfielder and/or striker, well, not bad at all!

5 minutes ago, PhilH930 said:

Think Todd is getting too much stick.  We have no idea the level of restructuring taking place behind the scenes,  Values appear high, but bigger picture Sterling, Koulibaly and Cucurella is good business.  We have somewhere near 60 games next year with a WC in there also - maintaining intensity, particularly in WB positions is critical to our formation.

Colwill on loan is great, and if we can sign one more CB, and then add a midfielder and/or striker, well, not bad at all!

Agreed.

Talk is they offered Edwards everything he could possibly want yet it's not the right timing for him atm. It's not as if nothing's happening. I'd rather they take their time and come up with quality solutions than a quick fix to appease the internet crowd. The signings so far a a tad expensive but all top quality so can't say he's doing terrible business as well. 

2 hours ago, weetee said:

Agreed.

Talk is they offered Edwards everything he could possibly want yet it's not the right timing for him atm. It's not as if nothing's happening. I'd rather they take their time and come up with quality solutions than a quick fix to appease the internet crowd. The signings so far a a tad expensive but all top quality so can't say he's doing terrible business as well. 

Most of the business is done anyway. Better wait another 12 months for Edwards than higher some Woodwards. When opposing fans assumed that Chelseas can´t buy new shiny attractions without Roman, Boehly decided to buy the whole Disneyland, while some other fans have to party with some CenterParcs manager.

 

 

On 26/07/2022 at 21:19, Sconnie Blue said:

We have Rahman, Miazga, Kenedy, Batshuayi, and others still here because Marina inserted a 1 year extension plan on them for whatever god knows why. 

I've actually come to accept the fact that Boehly had to get rid of her immediately. We may as well have to follow the Arsenal/Edu approach and just start terminating contracts and consider them as investments given we are getting rid of absolute mediocrity. 

Miazga has left the club permanently, moving to Cincinatti FC. Must have been one of our most pointless signings.

When was he signed, it must be a while ago now?

Just now, Mod said:

When was he signed, it must be a while ago now?

2015.

How much patience will Todd have for Edward's?. 

https://weaintgotnohistory.sbnation.com/chelsea-fc-transfer-rumours-news/2022/8/5/23293552/michael-edwards-impressed-by-chelsea-project-but-not-breaking-sabbatical-report

Wait out his sabbatical or move on to option B?

4 hours ago, PhilH930 said:

Think Todd is getting too much stick.  We have no idea the level of restructuring taking place behind the scenes,  Values appear high, but bigger picture Sterling, Koulibaly and Cucurella is good business.  We have somewhere near 60 games next year with a WC in there also - maintaining intensity, particularly in WB positions is critical to our formation.

Colwill on loan is great, and if we can sign one more CB, and then add a midfielder and/or striker, well, not bad at all!

Great post mate 

3 hours ago, Valerie said:

Miazga has left the club permanently, moving to Cincinatti FC. Must have been one of our most pointless signings.

USATim would've seen the positives in him!

Roman got Boehly to commit to a  £1.75b investment in the new stadium, youth facilities, ladies & the men’s team. Let’s assume £1b has been set aside for the stadium, he has £750m to play with regarding the other 3 aspects. I just wonder if he blows £300m+ in one summer, what’s to say they don’t turn off the tap going forward & point to these new signings.
Let’s get real the club is not profitable, so I wonder where fresh investments going forward is going to come from. Seems to be a gamble, and I find it hard to be excited because we don’t have the revenue to sustain this level of spending 

1 hour ago, ducavis said:

Roman got Boehly to commit to a  £1.75b investment in the new stadium, youth facilities, ladies & the men’s team. Let’s assume £1b has been set aside for the stadium, he has £750m to play with regarding the other 3 aspects. I just wonder if he blows £300m+ in one summer, what’s to say they don’t turn off the tap going forward & point to these new signings.
Let’s get real the club is not profitable, so I wonder where fresh investments going forward is going to come from. Seems to be a gamble, and I find it hard to be excited because we don’t have the revenue to sustain this level of spending 

This team is still so young overall.

Mendy 30, Chilwell 25, James 22, Cucurella 24, Mount 23 Havertz 23, Gallagher 22, Chukwuemeka 18, Werner 26, Pulisic 23, CHO 21, RLC 26, Broja 20, Chalobah 23, Gilmour 21.

You hypothetically add Fofana 21 and DeJong 25, you could go a decade without spending money and still compete.

People act like this clubs is in ruins after last season. They lost two cup finals on penalties to a team that was like 120 minutes away from a quadruple and went to the Bernabeu and whooped the ass of the eventual CL winners. If wasn´t for that donkey Lukaku missing sitters and having sit-ins on the pitch in the first leg, the outcome would have been the exact same as the year before.

I´m pretty excited the CL winners are playing with 11 players again.

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No, you are wrong with all due respect. Many American owners don’t view sports as a profit mechanism at all. Jerry Jones spent more on his Jumbotron (1 billion) than most entire teams were worth at the time.

The Golden State Warriors work in the luxury tax and at nearly every season to keep that group together. Their owner just likes showing up at the big parties with bragging rights. He loves it.

It depends on the ownership. Todd Boehly told you what he wanted in his statement about the team. He has a tendency to hide his mission statements in his addresses. And he said Chelsea would be the biggest team in London, in the biggest and best League in the world, and would be one of the best teams and brands in world football. He will do what he needs to and spend what he needs to to reach that goal. Clearlake will likely take out another 900 million loan from itself for development as the project moves forward in the coming years, and I would expect Boehly to be predatorily active in future windows empowering his executives, just like he is right now. He will also spend gargantuan sums in the areas of running a team not heavily regulated like the players: medical staff, scouting structure, analytic teams, general support staff, facilities.

He has zero need to show immediate profit, and if he needs to finance the financers Like City does to deal with FFP, then he will. The sports teams get Clearlake in the door and sportswash their tech endeavors. They are a private equity group and don’t answer to anyone.

Yes, other owners do real estate investment. But that’s simplistic, and doesn’t cover “Meta ownership”. Boehly creates the tv channels for his teams, his groups own just about everything, down to the company that produces the salt that goes on the pretzels. But most of their money is still made in the tech field, NOT from from sports ownership.

Kroenke has the ability to do this as well, resource-wise, but he has always been seen as a combo of cheap and stupid. The way he approached spending to get his football team into the LA market, and the way he spent t to get the Rams a title … along with the determined investmentArsenal are starting to show … leads me to believe there could be a change there. Boehly sees LA and London as his turf. Kroenke sees it as his and has his nose out of joint. It could lead to an epic arms race.

Boehly is also the Lakers owner as well. 25% for now, but that could change in the future.

You of course don’t have to believe me. Just don’t be surprised, or ask “how can they do this?” each year. Individually Boehly is listed as being worth less than Ambramovich. But the Capital group that Boehly controls is MUCH wealthier. And Boehly, frankly, may prove even smarter. Setting up an academy like Chelsea’s and not having first refusal buyback clauses built into the sales of people like Declan Rice was preposterous. More often than not we were hurt by the luxury, big name “Roman signings” like Shevchenko, hobble knee Torres, Lukaku, et al. Half this window would be easily sorted if we could have just called back Tomori and Rice, then added from there.

We will see. Raine group is one of the better and more expensive “think tank” evaluation groups on earth. Roman charged them with finding the owner most likely to have the capability, means, and desire to really grow every aspect of the club, and they chose Boehly and Clearlake, absolute titans in the sports world. People are acting like they are scratch off winners who play a lot of FIFA.

https://www.redcafe.net/threads/chelsea-2022-2023-the-new-era.471121/page-41

@Munkworth Fair play to the Tod Wartior, spunking money like it’s 2004, and Roman never existed, hopefully stops TT bleating like a mauled Ewe..

20 hours ago, Valerie said:

Miazga has left the club permanently, moving to Cincinatti FC. Must have been one of our most pointless signings.

I bet that was a free transfer as well.

At least someone actually wanted him, which is more than can be said for quite a few others who we can't even give away LOL

 

Todd is so funny. Inviting people for dinner and to his Villa in Mykonos. He’s really doing his best. 

Edited August 6, 20223 yr by azpi28

19 minutes ago, azpi28 said:

 

Todd is so funny. Inviting people for dinner and to his Villa in Mykonos. He’s really doing his best. 

Sounds like he knows how it's done. 

21 minutes ago, azpi28 said:

 

Todd is so funny. Inviting people for dinner and to his Villa in Mykonos. He’s really doing his best. 

Doing things Barca can't afford to do so we can't be gazumped by them.

Big brain Boehly.

3 minutes ago, HazardousChoice said:

Doing things Barca can't afford to do so we can't be gazumped by them.

Big brain Boehly.

Barcelona board invited Cucurella's team on a hike to Santiago de Compostela but hey had to bring their own provisions 

Based on last seasons home form from when Todd started attending what is the bigger Jinx?

Todd attending matches at the Bridge or the number 9 shirt?

Or what if Todd attended home games IN the number 9 shirt!. .

10 hours ago, ducavis said:

Roman got Boehly to commit to a  £1.75b investment in the new stadium, youth facilities, ladies & the men’s team. Let’s assume £1b has been set aside for the stadium, he has £750m to play with regarding the other 3 aspects. I just wonder if he blows £300m+ in one summer, what’s to say they don’t turn off the tap going forward & point to these new signings.
Let’s get real the club is not profitable, so I wonder where fresh investments going forward is going to come from. Seems to be a gamble, and I find it hard to be excited because we don’t have the revenue to sustain this level of spending 

We're going to appoint Laporta as the CFO. 

15 hours ago, ducavis said:

Roman got Boehly to commit to a  £1.75b investment in the new stadium, youth facilities, ladies & the men’s team. Let’s assume £1b has been set aside for the stadium, he has £750m to play with regarding the other 3 aspects. I just wonder if he blows £300m+ in one summer, what’s to say they don’t turn off the tap going forward & point to these new signings.
Let’s get real the club is not profitable, so I wonder where fresh investments going forward is going to come from. Seems to be a gamble, and I find it hard to be excited because we don’t have the revenue to sustain this level of spending 

The season barely started and you're worried about next season already? 

It Todd is hoping to tap into the American sports living consumer market he better lose the tape of this game

On 06/08/2022 at 11:00, ducavis said:

Roman got Boehly to commit to a  £1.75b investment in the new stadium, youth facilities, ladies & the men’s team. Let’s assume £1b has been set aside for the stadium, he has £750m to play with regarding the other 3 aspects. I just wonder if he blows £300m+ in one summer, what’s to say they don’t turn off the tap going forward & point to these new signings.
Let’s get real the club is not profitable, so I wonder where fresh investments going forward is going to come from. Seems to be a gamble, and I find it hard to be excited because we don’t have the revenue to sustain this level of spending 

Forget investment. An American investment company isn't a charity.

they want a return on their investment . That money will come from the club and us..

we are like any thing else they invest in, it's to make money for their investors and nothing else

5 minutes ago, The Rising Sun said:

Forget investment. An American investment company isn't a charity.

they want a return on their investment . That money will come from the club and us..

we are like any thing else they invest in, it's to make money for their investors and nothing else

The main way of making said moneys back is by keeping the club amongst the best in the world otherwise their investment goes down the drain, Plus the written agreements that they have to spend a certain figure over 10yrs