52 minutes ago, El regreso said:

Burning money daily the Todd way!!! That consortium will be firing some rocket up his ass when they start to realise the big European money is not going to come in probability for a couple of Seasons 

Good. What's the point of the club making money only to hand it over to Clearlake's millionaire investors?

f**k em ! 😝

5 minutes ago, The Rising Sun said:

After the start we had under Tuchel this season I wouldn't have trusted him with anything.

10 ponits in 6 games what a disaster, should've been 12 if Anthony Taylor hadn't robbed us. Tuchel's start to the season is the only reason we aren't in a relegation fight right now.

 

Hate to say it but the next phase of their ownership will be a realization that to comply w FFP a fire sale of players is required, buyers will know Chelsea have to sell so Bully & Co will have to lose money on a few sales i.e. accept less than the players are actually valued at.

The biggest profit and therefore and most useful to balance the books will be the academy boys, 2 out on loan at Burnley & Brighton, Broja crocked, RJ, RLC, CG, MM & TC in 1st team squad, then there's Zyech, Kepa, Mendy, Kova, Pully & Havertz whom must be near end of deals so again not gonna demand high fees but all need to go. Dave will probably go for free.

If all of those get sold except maybe RJ +1 other academy boy, lets say 10 players at an average of $ 20 mill each (its a fire sale/ buyers market bc its CFC) that's 200 mill, a 3rd of what these knuckle heads of spent on other club's academy prospects.

Then next season will need a new coaching team, new goalie(s), Lukaku will be back but will still need a proper striker- 2 preferably, Kante might not sign an extension, and we will only have the new signings plus a few of the old faces in the squad. Never mind what the new coach wants.

Eventually Clearlake the funding behind Bully & Co will pull the plug  and send in hard nosed persons to run the club. Either way the future does not look bright for our club. 

 

 

Edited April 18, 20233 yr by General
forgot Pully lol

That £600 transfer spend ?

Is that money a debt with the club now ?

10 minutes ago, The Rising Sun said:

After the start we had under Tuchel this season I wouldn't have trusted him with anything.

If we had maintained our 1.67 points per game from this "bad" start, we'd still have something to play for in the PL ... if we'd improved on it (which I think was quite likely had TT been retained) we'd still be in the mix for Top 4.

2 minutes ago, Drogba1 said:

10 ponits in 6 games what a disaster, should've been 12 if Anthony Taylor hadn't robbed us. Tuchel's start to the season is the only reason we aren't in a relegation fight right now.

 

We had the easiest start ever, most of em were relegation fodder last season. 

I don't recall anyone praising the start we had ?  Mind you , who knew how much worse it was about to get ! 

😆

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/metro.co.uk/2023/04/18/didier-drogba-blasts-chelsea-co-owner-todd-boehly-over-transfer-approach-18634878/amp/

Thank you Didier!

Just now, Sexyfootball said:

If we had maintained our 1.67 points per game from this "bad" start, we'd still have something to play for in the PL ... if we'd improved on it (which I think was quite likely had TT been retained) we'd still be in the mix for Top 4.

That's true. But only If we were to play those relegation bound teams continually and no one else 

8 minutes ago, General said:

Hate to say it but the next phase of their ownership will be a realization that to comply w FFP a fire sale of players is required, buyers will know Chelsea have to sell so Bully & Co will have to lose money on a few sales i.e. accept less than the players are actually valued at.

The biggest profit and therefore and most useful to balance the books will be the academy boys, 2 out on loan at Burnley & Brighton, Broja crocked, RJ, RLC, CG, MM & TC in 1st team squad, then there's Zyech, Kepa, Mendy, Kova, Pully & Havertz whom must be near end of deals so again not gonna demand high fees but all need to go. Dave will probably go for free.

If all of those get sold except maybe RJ +1 other academy boy, lets say 10 players at an average of $ 20 mill each (its a fire sale/ buyers market bc its CFC) that's 200 mill, a 3rd of what these knuckle heads of spent on other club's academy prospects.

Then next season will need a new coaching team, new goalie(s), Lukaku will be back but will still need a proper striker- 2 preferably, Kante might not sign an extension, and we will only have the new signings plus a few of the old faces in the squad. Never mind what the new coach wants.

Eventually Clearlake the funding behind Bully & Co will pull the plug  and send in hard nosed persons to run the club. Either way the future does not look bright for our club. 

 

 

Spot on sadly

23 minutes ago, Drogba1 said:

10 ponits in 6 games what a disaster, should've been 12 if Anthony Taylor hadn't robbed us. Tuchel's start to the season is the only reason we aren't in a relegation fight right now.

 

Result wise yes but he has to take some responsibility due to his transfers and i say this as someone who rates him as high as Mou 1.0 on the grass.

Obviously a failed first season but a collapse of this magnitude doesn’t fall on the shoulders of one area. The failure began the minute the market opened in 2021 after our CL win and everything has been a lagged knock on effect. They’ll be judged rightly in time but it’s definitely not verdicts in under a year.

1 hour ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Obviously a failed first season but a collapse of this magnitude doesn’t fall on the shoulders of one area. The failure began the minute the market opened in 2021 after our CL win and everything has been a lagged knock on effect. They’ll be judged rightly in time but it’s definitely not verdicts in under a year.

I also agree with this. Arguably goes back as far as when we sold Hazard. Some poor signings culminating in the decision to bring back Lukaku for a fee that might have been used to secure a contract for Haaland.

Perhaps we’d have been better off with the ricketts family after all….

2 hours ago, Argo said:

Result wise yes but he has to take some responsibility due to his transfers and i say this as someone who rates him as high as Mou 1.0 on the grass.

Sterling looked good under him, 5 G/A in 7 games, Fofana was coming back off injury, Koulibaly was an emergency replacement for Rudiger and Cucu looked good under Tuchel as well.

 

Lukaku was the only massive failure, but before the interview he looked great, until he decided he didn't want to be here and put on 20lbs. 

 

But with that being said, Tuchel + Vivell would have been the perfect system for this season. 

Tuchel was not faultless before his sacking, nobody was. Any criticism on 'his failed signings' would be valid if he had minimum couple of months to work with them. He was literally sacked straight after all the signings came in. He would have his struggle this season, but that's more like battling for a top 4 or 6 finish, which would look like a First World Problem for us right now.

Looking ahead, just get the next manager sorted, even if he's not taking over until the next season. Last thing we want is come July, we are still not sure who's in charge, and Boehly gives the middle finger to FFP and sign another 400M worth of players.

5 hours ago, The Rising Sun said:

That's true. But only If we were to play those relegation bound teams continually and no one else 

Unfortunately this is a statement that is impossible to assert by you or deny by anybody else. All that is known is that no other manager this season has matched this points tally against similar or the same relegation fodder teams.

8 hours ago, General said:

Hate to say it but the next phase of their ownership will be a realization that to comply w FFP a fire sale of players is required, buyers will know Chelsea have to sell so Bully & Co will have to lose money on a few sales i.e. accept less than the players are actually valued at.

The biggest profit and therefore and most useful to balance the books will be the academy boys, 2 out on loan at Burnley & Brighton, Broja crocked, RJ, RLC, CG, MM & TC in 1st team squad, then there's Zyech, Kepa, Mendy, Kova, Pully & Havertz whom must be near end of deals so again not gonna demand high fees but all need to go. Dave will probably go for free.

If all of those get sold except maybe RJ +1 other academy boy, lets say 10 players at an average of $ 20 mill each (its a fire sale/ buyers market bc its CFC) that's 200 mill, a 3rd of what these knuckle heads of spent on other club's academy prospects.

Then next season will need a new coaching team, new goalie(s), Lukaku will be back but will still need a proper striker- 2 preferably, Kante might not sign an extension, and we will only have the new signings plus a few of the old faces in the squad. Never mind what the new coach wants.

Eventually Clearlake the funding behind Bully & Co will pull the plug  and send in hard nosed persons to run the club. Either way the future does not look bright for our club. 

 

 

Are you saying we won’t make a profit on Cucurella? … Crazy talk!

Kind of a shame Drogba said what he said tbh but it means he won’t be an ambassador for us and since we’ve got these guys for at least 10 years and beyond, you’d think they’d blacklist him now. Always nice to have the legends still part of the community, for special events, guest appearances etc. I recall Ashley Cole saying how well the club would look after the legends, like calling them, seeing how they are, still making them part of it. Ah well. 

42 minutes ago, Term_X said:

Kind of a shame Drogba said what he said tbh but it means he won’t be an ambassador for us and since we’ve got these guys for at least 10 years and beyond, you’d think they’d blacklist him now. Always nice to have the legends still part of the community, for special events, guest appearances etc. I recall Ashley Cole saying how well the club would look after the legends, like calling them, seeing how they are, still making them part of it. Ah well. 

Frank's knows the score and when asked to comment on Didier's remarks says, 

No, that's Didier's view.'

Boehly’s Chelsea show the distorting effect of money without sense or love

Real Madrid just had to be good enough against opponents resembling a sinking vessel peopled by castaways

 

 

Barney Ronay at Stamford Bridge

@barneyronay

Tue 18 Apr 2023 23.38 BST

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Well, there goes the season. Perhaps summer budget too. Who knows maybe the entire Chelsea 3.0 Blue Sky Project Stage One?

With 28 minutes to go in a Champions League second leg Chelsea always seemed to be losing, even when they were threatening vaguely to win it, the home bench took a deep breath, cleared its throat, and coughed up £260m of randomly assembled attacking talent.

 

Admittedly Chelsea were 3-0 down in the tie by the time Raheem Sterling, João Félix and Mykhaylo Mudryk came on to the pitch, having spent an hour playing with five defenders and three defensive midfielders, one of them installed as an assiduous and energetic No 10-cum-right-winger.

 

Real Madrid’s Rodrygo floors Chelsea to seal Champions League semi-final spot

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And yes, by that point this thrillingly overmanned attacking machine had mustered a single goal in its last 510 minutes of football. But hey: Boehly-ball. Go with it. Disrupt. Subvert the dominant paradigm. Storm the dressing room. Anything to keep away the gathering sense of quiet horror around this whole grand, baffling, viciously wasteful football-style project.

This was a strange football match. There is something sad, but also grotesque about seeing this Chelsea team toiling through their patterns, all mangled shapes and blocked talent. Nothing here feels permanent or stitched together, or put in place with any skill or love. We are the hollow men. We are the stuffed men. We are the human spoils of Todd Boehly’s incoherent acquisitiveness, the top down confusion as to how this complex and heavily ritualised sport actually works.

For all that Chelsea did also play well here. Stamford Bridge was boisterously full, those low white midweek lights conjuring the muscle memory of more coherent times, of teams that looked like teams, of some guiding intelligence behind this 25-year project team. There were key missed chances before Madrid took the lead. The ball kept falling to N’Golo Kanté close to goal, but then this will happen if you select N’Golo Kanté to play close to goal.

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Frank Lampard: Chelsea played 'exactly how I wanted' in defeat against Real Madrid – video

Frank Lampard had picked a team to snipe and harry and chase, with Conor Gallagher and Kanté as his dogs of counter-pressing. And it worked for a bit. Chelsea did snap and chase and force some hurried clearances, producing 45 minutes of angry, chastened, slightly vague attacking pressure. Things happened but didn’t happen. Chelsea almost made chances. Reece James had an excellent game after the chasing in Madrid. Chelsea have many problems. James really isn’t one of them. Just before half-time Marc Cucurella allowed Thibaut Courtois to produce a world-class save, waiting just a little too long in front of goal.

Still, though it felt a little bit desperate measures, an attempt to throw a shape over something shapeless. By the end Chelsea had launched 28 crosses into the Madrid box, which really is a lot of crosses. Is this the right way to do this thing? Maybe. Who knows. What does Todd think?

Madrid just had to be good enough here. They took the lead through Rodrygo, set up by a lovely little pass from Vinícius Júnior. Rodrygo also walked the second goal into the net to make it 4-0 on aggregate. Kepa Arrizabalaga launched a wild, swinging leg as he lingered on the line. It felt a little insolent. But can you blame Madrid for that? This wasn’t so much men against boys as a highly competent team against a hallucinogenic fever dream of how to do soccer, winched into place by a coterie of hyped up management consultants.

 

Chelsea owner Todd Boehly was at Stamford Bridge to see his side knocked out of the Champions League. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian

Something a little grotesque has been created here, a real-time reminder of the things people want to do to this sport, of the distorting effects of money without sense or love or care. Even the half-time warmup was an excruciating spectacle as Chelsea’s star substitutes bumbled about in their padded coats bantering with Antonio Rüdiger, swaggering vaguely, conveying a sense of total alienation. There may have been more contemptuously disinterested knee lunges than those performed by Hakim Ziyech on the Stamford Bridge pitch. But not many. And none that spring to mind.

^^A few insightful passages in there:

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Nothing here feels permanent or stitched together, or put in place with any skill or love.

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The ball kept falling to N’Golo Kanté close to goal, but then this will happen if you select N’Golo Kanté to play close to goal.

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This wasn’t so much men against boys as a highly competent team against a hallucinogenic fever dream of how to do soccer, winched into place by a coterie of hyped up management consultants.

 

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Something a little grotesque has been created here, a real-time reminder of the things people want to do to this sport, of the distorting effects of money without sense or love or care.

 

Some of the hate the previous board use to get puts the phrase “ The grass isn’t walkways greener on the other side” 

Shows what good job the did, they certainly weren’t perfect but far better than this shower of sh*te. 
I have never felt like this about the leadership of Chelsea FC.

9 hours ago, Drogba1 said:

Sterling looked good under him, 5 G/A in 7 games, Fofana was coming back off injury, Koulibaly was an emergency replacement for Rudiger and Cucu looked good under Tuchel as well.

 

Lukaku was the only massive failure, but before the interview he looked great, until he decided he didn't want to be here and put on 20lbs. 

 

But with that being said, Tuchel + Vivell would have been the perfect system for this season. 

Did he? Even before that the stylistic mismatch was obvious. We looked a genuine elite side under Tuchel without him. There was also the Saul signing and then subsequently ignoring the CM position the year after.

Kouli shouldn't have been signed even if he didn't turn out to be complete sh*t, Colwill is an even more obvious elite player in waiting as James was. Cucurella is a little more understandable (and I don't think he's as bad as made out) but still a bit of a lazy one all things considered.

40 minutes ago, El regreso said:

Some of the hate the previous board use to get puts the phrase “ The grass isn’t walkways greener on the other side” 

Shows what good job the did, they certainly weren’t perfect but far better than this shower of sh*te. 
I have never felt like this about the leadership of Chelsea FC.

There was problems under the previous board and problems under this one.

Both can be true.

25 minutes ago, Argo said:

There was problems under the previous board and problems under this one.

Both can be true.

There are problems and then there's a catastrophe.

We're about to finish lower than we did in the worst season in almost twenty years under the previous regime, while breaking all kinds of anti records along the way.

Edited April 19, 20233 yr by abramovich