5 hours ago, Timmy Elms said:

Wow. First team squad plus youth affiliates, could supplement income by being background actors in the new version of Ben Herr. Fill the auditorium up no probs 

 

Ben Herr is the German version of Ben Hur

6 hours ago, General said:

Let’s not forget as well FIFA changed the loan rules to stop clubs like ours from loaning out lots of players who will never feature for parent club but are being developed to sell. Clearfake are exploiting the loophole in those new regs by purchasing a lot of under 21 players who are exempt. Same with EPL squad - only 25 players can be registered but as many U 21 s can be used to supplement that limitation.  Club can loan up to 6 players older than 21 and loan out as many  21 and under as they please as there is no limit. 

What happens when the under 21's are no longer under 21 ?

43 minutes ago, The Rising Sun said:

What happens when the under 21's are no longer under 21 ?

We're going to sell them all and make gazillions.  But shhh, don't tell anyone, it's a brilliant plan that only our guys know about.

54 minutes ago, WhiteWall said:

We're going to sell them all and make gazillions.  But shhh, don't tell anyone, it's a brilliant plan that only our guys know about.

Plan B is we buy every football player in the World and none of our rivals can put a team out.

Genius.

2 hours ago, The Rising Sun said:

What happens when the under 21's are no longer under 21 ?

I was thinking the same.

Or...

We start our own league with all these players playing against each other and it's treated liking a shopping channel for "unregistered soccer stars" clubs in the top 5 leagues can buy...Once we develop them obviously!

 

C'mon, its as good as any of the other ideas above and as nearly as believable. Lol

Edited August 11, 20241 yr by Simplymo

5 hours ago, The Rising Sun said:

Ben Herr is the German version of Ben Hur

Is that a Flick.

11 hours ago, The Rising Sun said:

What happens when the under 21's are no longer under 21 ?

It does seem that we’re trying to buy 16-19 year olds, send them on loan and try to get lucky on a few. Similar to what Elemano did but with much younger players.  

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cy4yg422zjpo

 

43 minutes ago, just said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cy4yg422zjpo

 

Why do we have so many players it’s just a recipe for disaster similar to Potter. 

They haven’t learnt a single thing have they??

The last Chelsea squad that finished 3rd in the PL in 2022 pre Clearlake/Boehly takeover:

Mendy/Kepa              
James/Azpi
Silva
Rudiger
Chalobah/Christensen/Zouma
Alonso/Chilwell/Emerson
Jorginho
Kante
Kovacic
Gilmour/Barkley/RLC
Mount
Ziyech/ Hudson Odoi
Werner/ Havertz
Abraham/Lukaku 

To think we’ve spent £1.5 billion since the takeover and now have a considerably weaker first team, squad and manager.
 

Never thought Id say this, but I miss the stability we had under the previous ownership, the scouting network under the management of Cech, the comparatively shrewd business done by Marina in the transfer market, the fact we werent mugs being taken advantage of by every club. We were challenging year on year for titles and cups and now were a club thats fallen to mid table mediocracy. The priority used to be winning football matches, now its turning the club into a franchise, tying young players into long contracts and selling them for ‘pure profit’. 

It’s difficult for me to get behind the team as the club’s principles are not ones that I can stand for. 

Edited August 11, 20241 yr by Vialli96

So which part of the data driven recruitment is pulling out at the 11th hour on Tyler Adams last summer, now Samu from Atletico, after "months of work"?

Are they about to break the wage structure cap to allow the signings of Joao Felix and Victor Osimhen?

57 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

So which part of the data driven recruitment is pulling out at the 11th hour on Tyler Adams last summer, now Samu from Atletico, after "months of work"?

I wonder if Enzo ( the manager ) had a say in the latest transfer drama. It would be hilarous if they sign Felix and find out the manager had no plans for him, or the type of player like him.  Who knows what we will end up with by the time the window closes, maybe another 120M MF, a striker nobody heard of, or another starting GK.

Enzo is just a mouthpiece for the clowns, he has no idea what they are up to, until he is told, and just has to smile, nod and say Yes a lot!

Great post above too @Vialli96 Completely sums it all up and couldn’t agree more!

5 hours ago, Vialli96 said:

The last Chelsea squad that finished 3rd in the PL in 2022 pre Clearlake/Boehly takeover:

Mendy/Kepa              
James/Azpi
Silva
Rudiger
Chalobah/Christensen/Zouma
Alonso/Chilwell/Emerson
Jorginho
Kante
Kovacic
Gilmour/Barkley/RLC
Mount
Ziyech/ Hudson Odoi
Werner/ Havertz
Abraham/Lukaku 

To think we’ve spent £1.5 billion since the takeover and now have a considerably weaker first team, squad and manager.
 

Never thought Id say this, but I miss the stability we had under the previous ownership, the scouting network under the management of Cech, the comparatively shrewd business done by Marina in the transfer market, the fact we werent mugs being taken advantage of by every club. We were challenging year on year for titles and cups and now were a club thats fallen to mid table mediocracy. The priority used to be winning football matches, now its turning the club into a franchise, tying young players into long contracts and selling them for ‘pure profit’. 

It’s difficult for me to get behind the team as the club’s principles are not ones that I can stand for. 

The chelsea i knew is being stripped away piece by piece in front of our eyes and we are powerless to do anything against it

4 hours ago, axman2526 said:

Are they about to break the wage structure cap to allow the signings of Joao Felix and Victor Osimhen?

Wait, what? What did I miss, are we looking at João Felix again?

36 minutes ago, Valerie said:

Wait, what? What did I miss, are we looking at João Felix again?

You couldn't make this stuff up. Opened Social Media whilst having morning cup of tea and all these Felix rumours. We've been there - know he doesn't fit in, so WTF?!!

 

Like I said this is a🤡🤡🤡 show. Laurel and Hardy would do a better job. 
They have no strategy, they are freaking making it up as they go along.

You make all that effort then pull out of a deal which I didn’t think we need anyway.

We are in for a loooooooooooong 10 years!!!!

f**king clowns!!!!

Also this seems like some sort of money shuffling scheme which I fear will kick us in the ass in the future when these 🤡🤡 bog off.
 

49 minutes ago, Nibs said:

You couldn't make this stuff up. Opened Social Media whilst having morning cup of tea and all these Felix rumours. We've been there - know he doesn't fit in, so WTF?!!

 

AM are desperate to rid of Felix. Of course his name has been thrown into the pot. 
 

 

I just read that Samu failed the medical ,so Felix comes into the equation I reckon this is so that Connor deal goes ahead..couldnt make it up 

24 minutes ago, El regreso said:

Like I said this is a🤡🤡🤡 show. Laurel and Hardy would do a better job. 
They have no strategy, they are freaking making it up as they go along.

You make all that effort then pull out of a deal which I didn’t think we need anyway.

We are in for a loooooooooooong 10 years!!!!

f**king clowns!!!!

Also this seems like some sort of money shuffling scheme which I fear will kick us in the ass in the future when these 🤡🤡 bog off.
 

Of course there is a strategy and despite what , on the face of it seems chaotic but they are in a rush to get things in place.

Irrespective in any type of plan you have to be adaptable and that’s why if a player who is rated suddenly becomes available then you have to be flexible in the plan. 
 

Of course they are money shuffling if that’s what you want to call it but sorry I personally can see sense in their approach I might not like how they are dealing with matters on a player by player basis but this type of approach when a player isn’t wanted ( sometimes there are issues that just won’t get out into the public domain) is common place . The problem is that the press simply don’t seem to make the same headlines out of these matters at other clubs

Don’t mind the Samu deal being off, especially if Guiu stays. Even more so if we can shift Sterling. That just leaves the question around the suitability of Felix, he wasn’t too bad when he was here.

26 minutes ago, terraloon said:

Of course there is a strategy and despite what , on the face of it seems chaotic but they are in a rush to get things in place.

Irrespective in any type of plan you have to be adaptable and that’s why if a player who is rated suddenly becomes available then you have to be flexible in the plan. 
 

Of course they are money shuffling if that’s what you want to call it but sorry I personally can see sense in their approach I might not like how they are dealing with matters on a player by player basis but this type of approach when a player isn’t wanted ( sometimes there are issues that just won’t get out into the public domain) is common place . The problem is that the press simply don’t seem to make the same headlines out of these matters at other clubs

The strategy is to maximise the overall asset value and worth of the company as a whole and therefore the profit available from the turnover of players far outweighs the unpredictability of financial gain from on field success. These people are fully on board with the media deals as they are a guaranteed income stream, but anything that comes along that will increase that earning potential they will be totally on board with as well.

The churning of players is based upon the the analytics implying that a percentage of these players will, at some point, increase dramatically in value and to that end they have no option but to be wedded to some form of on field success as it directly correlates with player values.

However with the continuing stagnation of our success on the pitch, in commercial terms (nobody is pumping millions of advertising into a Conference league side, nobody is paying millions for unfit, or underperforming, or non playing players) means that they have had no option but to look at homegrown players to cover this commercial player trading philosophy. I read somewhere (not sure if it is true) but our amortised annualised day-one position is -£200m. That's a lot of ground to recover each year if true. At the moment there is still deadwood and low hanging fruit to cash in on whilst we wait for either the team or selections of players to catch fire and increase in value.

With only a small selection of clubs forming the basis of a viable market for this philosophy to operate in, they will see it imperative to maintain good relations with these "partners". They have already pi$$ed on their own chips once with PSG, so i can definitely see us coming up with some form of sweetener with Ath Madrid over tis Omorodion collapse.

I am convinced that they will be managing Reece James very closely until the winter window or season end. They have a ready made replacement, keep James fit and healthy and he is the next cab on the rank. With the inevitable slowing up of academy graduates coming through and getting professional contracts so that they can be sold then surely the remaining pure profit players and then those with the most increased value will be next. Colwill and Palmer are prime candidates in the future, especially as we are stocked with CB and RW players.

As i have been saying, for me, i detest it, because it has nothing to do with sporting endeavour. They have torn out the heart and soul of the club as we all knew it. Its not the players faults, they still want to be successful footballers and are happy joining Chelsea. Its not the manager's fault, he is trying his best to be successful on the pitch  knowing full well that his bosses do not view this as the club's primary purposes. Despise these to$$ers that are in control of the club.