3 hours ago, SydneyChelsea said:

I thought of you saying that as soon as I saw this year's graph!

How damning. For all we are told about the 'new model' set to reduce wages, we have achieved all of a 5% reduction in wages from the excesses of the Abramovich era. Keep in mind that 77% figure from 2020-21 is from our lowest COVID-hit revenue period.

That is precisely what it shows lol. Like @Bob stark said, we are not signing players for huge transfer fees but low wages despite what the media keep saying. We are signing players for huge transfer fees and above-average wages, and signing a lot of players to boot.

To put my comments above in context, we have reduced the wage-to-revenue ratio by just 5%, but the quality gap between our 2021 CL winning squad and our 'new model' current squad is a chasm. In other words, BlueCo's model is a colossal waste of money.

I remember arguing with lots of poster here about blue co (it is no longer popular to be blue co fan so the number has dwindled).

The reality is simply, if we still want to be a top club you need to pay top club salary. Don't listen to magical contract or whatever. Player and player agent are not stupid.

6 hours ago, Sexyfootball said:

We're making a cracking loss on the Women LOL

Turnover £11.5m ; Costs £17.3m ; Loss £5.8m

So that'll bring the value down to what £145m roughly then eh? Ozark FC

5 hours ago, SydneyChelsea said:

I thought of you saying that as soon as I saw this year's graph!

How damning. For all we are told about the 'new model' set to reduce wages, we have achieved all of a 5% reduction in wages from the excesses of the Abramovich era. Keep in mind that 77% figure from 2020-21 is from our lowest COVID-hit revenue period.

That is precisely what it shows lol. Like @Bob stark said, we are not signing players for huge transfer fees but low wages despite what the media keep saying. We are signing players for huge transfer fees and above-average wages, and signing a lot of players to boot.

To put my comments above in context, we have reduced the wage-to-revenue ratio by just 5%, but the quality gap between our 2021 CL winning squad and our 'new model' current squad is a chasm. In other words, BlueCo's model is a colossal waste of money.

I'm also not sure if this is including agents fees as I have seen a graphic somewhere a while back indicating that we eclipsed everyone else by a country mile. Its not an underlying belief in the "project" that is getting these players it's the palm greasing of agents. Hence why we are also getting rumours of restlessness from some. It'll be their agents after further pay days

As a financial genius and someone who is not at all sceptical about modern capitalism, I have come up with an idea to plug some of that revenue gap:

Going to be interesting to see what happens when all the gambling companies are banned from shirt sponsorship ... 11 teams affected by that and will be looking for a new front of shirt sponsor at the end of this season ...

21 minutes ago, Sexyfootball said:

Going to be interesting to see what happens when all the gambling companies are banned from shirt sponsorship ... 11 teams affected by that and will be looking for a new front of shirt sponsor at the end of this season ...

Sleeve sponsorship and pitch-surrounds advertising are unaffected. They'll just hike the prices.

24 minutes ago, Sexyfootball said:

Going to be interesting to see what happens when all the gambling companies are banned from shirt sponsorship ... 11 teams affected by that and will be looking for a new front of shirt sponsor at the end of this season ...

I’d take a very educated guess at seeing something very similar to ‘Mission Winnow’ popping up across a lot of sides.

2 minutes ago, dermott said:

Sleeve sponsorship and pitch-surrounds advertising are unaffected. They'll just hike the prices.

Money for sleeves is a lot less than for front of shirt though isn't it ?

Just now, Sexyfootball said:

Money for sleeves is a lot less than for front of shirt though isn't it ?

Yes. Currently. You can - um - bet the teams will extract every possible penny though.

I wonder what our values are 🤔

5 hours ago, WhiteWall said:

Anyone know if the fans against Charlton were actually singing xenophobic/racist chants or is Eghbali just upset they were singing f**k Eghbali for 90 minutes?

14 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

.... or is Eghbali just upset they were singing f**k Eghbali for 90 minutes?

This!

Call me a conspiracist, but I honestly believe it was Eghbali that got the fans kettled in the cold after the Charlton game! That's when it mostly started and was proper loud!

Imagine all the investors and bigwigs watching the games and hearing that! I bet he is seething!

8 hours ago, Valerie said:

I wonder what our values are 🤔

Sustainability is the politically correct term

On 23/01/2026 at 22:19, Mod said:

This!

Call me a conspiracist, but I honestly believe it was Eghbali that got the fans kettled in the cold after the Charlton game! That's when it mostly started and was proper loud!

Imagine all the investors and bigwigs watching the games and hearing that! I bet he is seething!

I heard something about problems leaving the stadium after the game. What happened exactly??

On 23/01/2026 at 22:19, Mod said:

This

On 23/01/2026 at 22:19, Mod said:

This!!

On 23/01/2026 at 22:19, Mod said:

This!!

On 23/01/2026 at 07:34, WhiteWall said:

While Poundland would be competitive, we know the owners have deep connections with the powerhouse US equivalent!

Think Dollar Tree might be a better fit.

I'm not sure about these figures tbh.

How come we aren't far behind Spurs with their massive money making stadium ??

Clubs with highest revenue last season Deloitte Football Money League Use the column header buttons to sort columns by ascending or descending orderCurrently not sorted Rank last year 2024-25 revenue 1. Real Madrid 1 €1161m (£975m) 2. Barcelona 6 €974.8m (£819m) 3. Bayern Munich 5 €860.6m (£723m) 4. Paris St-Germain 3 €837m (£703m) 5. Liverpool 8 €836.1m (£702m) 6. Man City 2 €829.3m (£697m) 7. Arsenal 7 €821.7m (£690m) 8. Man Utd 4 €793.1m (£666m) 9. Tottenham 9 €672.6m (£565m) 10. Chelsea 10 €584.1m (£491m) 11. Inter Milan 14

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23 hours ago, PloKoon13 said:

Apparently Boehly met with Jeffrey Epstein twice after the latter had been imprisoned for serial noncery. This has been revealed through leaked e-mails, it seems the disgraced financier and likely pederast met with Epstein in 2011.

FFS.

Government take the club off him and let's have another go?

Take the club off the f**king nonce c**t.

14 minutes ago, Zola_25Fan said:

Take the club off the f**king nonce c**t.

On 01/02/2026 at 04:28, PloKoon13 said:

Apparently Boehly met with Jeffrey Epstein twice after the latter had been imprisoned for serial noncery. This has been revealed through leaked e-mails, it seems the disgraced financier and likely pederast met with Epstein in 2011.

Hansjorg Wyss

Yay capitalism