2 hours ago, Sconnie Blue said:

PSG didn't just beat us on the pitch. Their project also beat us.

They reformed their strategy at the same time BlueCo came to Chelsea. Let's look at the disparity in strategies.

• PSG got rid of their egos and lowered the wage bill/Chelsea got rid of their high earners but supplemented quality for quantity

• PSG appointed the best sporting director available, Luis Campos/Chelsea appointed two average scouts with zero experience as directors

• PSG appointed one of the best managers in the world, Enrique/Chelsea have appointed 5 yes man managers since turning down Enrique, with each one being less experienced than the previous

• PSG utilized Campos' experience and their scouting network to find the best young players in Europe/Chelsea hoard Brighton and Man City rejects

• PSG utilized Campos to create a balanced squad/Chelsea's sporting directors created the most imbalanced squad in England

• PSG adequately bring in top players on high wages because they are worth it/Chelsea don't compete for such players and instead by bang average players on high amounts but less wages.

• PSG win the Treble. Chelsea struggle for Top 4 and get embarrassed out of Europe.

To be fair, PSG play in a league where they are favourites to win it every season. The Premier League is far more competitive and we are competing against 4/5 other top clubs for players. I agree with you on our strategy being underwhelming, and that the ownership should have been far better at building our squad and the the coach they recruited, but the likes of Bayern and PSG have it easy because of the lack of competition they are up against in their respective leagues.

Well their hit piece on Roman and his Chelsea continues as their mouth piece Simon Jordan on talk sport has labeled all our achievements under Roman void, branding us "Elite cheats not an elite club".

Expect their other puppets to follow suit and rival fans to jump on it.

Edited March 18Mar 18 by axman2526

8 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

Well their hit piece on Roman and his Chelsea continues as their mouth piece Simon Jordan on talk sport has labeled all our achievements under Roman void, branding us "Elite cheats not an elite club".

Expect their other puppets to follow suit and rival fans to jump on it.

Simon Jordan is really rather pathetic these days ...

Still the greatest owner in club football history.

13 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

Well their hit piece on Roman and his Chelsea continues as their mouth piece Simon Jordan on talk sport has labeled all our achievements under Roman void, branding us "Elite cheats not an elite club".

Expect their other puppets to follow suit and rival fans to jump on it.

I can't watch that c**t

He should read the report. It said the football team did not benefit from the undisclosed payments. And we would not have breached any financial rules if we had

All our trophies are untainted

1 minute ago, The Rising Sun said:

I can't watch that c**t

He should read the report. It said the football team did not benefit from the undisclosed payments. And we would not have breached any financial rules if we had

All our trophies are untainted

Aye, BlueCos PR to distract from their failings and continue to put the fanbase on an uneven footing.

Just like the timing of Reeces deals and the bullsh*t he spouted in the presser, or various transfer links, brief after brief after brief...

20 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

Well their hit piece on Roman and his

20 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

Well

20 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

Well their hit piece on Roman and his Chelsea continues as their mouth piece Simon Jordan on talk sport has labeled all our achievements under Roman void, branding us "Elite cheats not an elite club".

Expect their other puppets to follow suit and rival fans to jump on it.

f**k off Jordan

The league also said it was satisfied that Chelsea “in no scenario” would have breached the league’s profitability and sustainability rules in those periods if the payments made had been properly included in the club’s accounts.

Edited March 18Mar 18 by The Rising Sun
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29 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

Well their hit piece on Roman and his Chelsea continues as their mouth piece Simon Jordan on talk sport has labeled all our achievements under Roman void, branding us "Elite cheats not an elite club".

Expect their other puppets to follow suit and rival fans to jump on it.

The investigation concluded that Chelsea did not benefit from the undisclosed payments made to unregistered agents and third parties, as there was no evidence that these payments would have violated the club's profitability and sustainability rules if properly accounted for.

1 minute ago, The Rising Sun said:

The league also said it was satisfied that Chelsea “in no scenario” would have breached the league’s profitability and sustainability rules in those periods if the payments made had been properly included in the club’s accounts.

THIS.

I'm willing to wager you could ask any pundit or neutral fan who call the club cheats, on why Chelsea FC are cheats, they won't give you an accurate response. £48m of unaccounted payments stretching over 7 years, and half of it went to paying the agents of Hazard, Luiz, and Ramires + to offshore accounts. The other half were for mundane expenses like £40K paid to a physio.

I reckon there will be ZERO top 6 clubs saying anything about our punishment, because there isn't a reality they didn't pay agents under the table or use offshore accounts for tax efficiency.

Edited March 18Mar 18 by Sconnie Blue

The only worthwhile thing Simon Jordan has ever done in his life is sit next to Eni Aluko and tell her what a c**t she is.

1 hour ago, axman2526 said:

Well their hit piece on Roman and his Chelsea continues as their mouth piece Simon Jordan on talk sport has labeled all our achievements under Roman void, branding us "Elite cheats not an elite club".

Expect their other puppets to follow suit and rival fans to jump on it.

WHY WAS THE VIDEO REMOVED?

THIS COULD BE GOOD IT STARTS NEXT SEASON

2 hours ago, GarnachoCheese said:

The only worthwhile thing Simon Jordan has ever done in his life is sit next to Eni Aluko and tell her what a c**t she is.

This is the same bloke who called Eghbali one of the most capable individuals in football he's ever met.

2 hours ago, GarnachoCheese said:

The only worthwhile thing Simon Jordan has ever done in his life is sit next to Eni Aluko and tell her what a c**t she is.

That c**t Jordan has got some nerve !

2 hours ago, GarnachoCheese said:

The Jordan has ever done in his life is sit next to Eni Aluko and tell her what a c**t she is.

"Jordan also said he doesn't believe Aluko "comes across as particularly likeable".

Jordan obviously doesn't know how he comes across!! What a prick that man is

Edited March 18Mar 18 by The Rising Sun
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What winds me up is how easy it is to turn this team into a team ready to challenge for everything again. 3 or 4 top signings and a top manager changes everything, everybody can see this apart from the people at the top and it sickens me.

16 minutes ago, timetowaste said:

What winds me up is how easy it is to turn this team into a team ready to challenge for everything again. 3 or 4 top signings and a top manager changes everything, everybody can see this apart from the people at the top and it sickens me.

Yup.

Not even looking at it in a biased way but the ‘skeleton’ of the squad is easily good enough to compete.

RJ - Best RB in world football.

Caiceido - Top 5 CM over the past 3 seasons in the PL

Palmer - Englands best player (when fit and free!)

Estevao - The NEXT big thing

JP - PL quality striker

Levi, Josh, Sarr are all extremely talented young CB’s with massive futures.

Cucu, Hato, Santos, Enzo are all good enough.

We essentially need a GK, an EXPERIENCED CB & a PL Quality LW to be taken seriously.

IF we were to address those issues and IF we were to avoid Europe entirely next season, there really is no reason we shouldn’t be domestically challenging.

We’d probably also need a new Manager and new SD’s and new Owners whilst we’re at it so maybe it is a pipe dream after all…

22 minutes ago, timetowaste said:

What winds me up is how easy it is to turn this team into a team ready to challenge for everything again. 3 or 4 top signings and a top manager changes everything, everybody can see this apart from the people at the top and it sickens me.

Is it that they don't see it?

Or is it they do but do not want to pay the sort of money 4 top quality players would demand in wages, or give the control a top manager would want?

3 hours ago, Sconnie Blue said:

This is the same bloke who called Eghbali one of the most capable individuals in football he's ever met.

To a bankrupted failed owner of a small London football club resorting to kiss and tell gossip on Talk radio from the real money men he is sucking up to, I suppose a greaseball like Eghbali would be a shining light.

3 hours ago, The Rising Sun said:

"Jordan also said he doesn't believe Aluko "comes across as particularly likeable".

Jordan obviously doesn't know how he comes across!! What a prick that man is

That's because in Simon Jordan's world women are meant to be "likeable" while he is free to be an odious f**kwit

Johnson suffers from classic middle management syndrome. He's not nearly wealthy enough to be up there with the billionaire class he simps for, but he's just wealthy enough to find it necessary to remind the rest of us of his privilege. It explains why he hates Ratcliffe (because Ratcliffe got away with things he wanted to) and is happy to suck up to Eghbali in the hopes that BlueCo offer him a job.

On 17/03/2026 at 19:03, terraloon said:

Just on the PL settlement it’s worth reading the full text. What is clear is that the club was left massively exposed and clearly some individuals that were in the leadership group at the time had no option but to fall on their swords . I may be wrong but I wonder if part of the concessions that were made by the club included agreeing that all those that were in positions of authority had to leave.

We still have the FA charges to resolve. Hopefully this settlement will enable an early resolution to that process because it’s been a millstone around the club and from a snippet leaked by a FA Council member it is highly likely that the delay in releasing the City ruling is that the IC needed a steer in terms of precedent.

It’s worth bearing in mind that the PL agreed that there was significant mitigation in reality bought about by self disclosure and indeed the clubs actions in facilitating resolution. City certainly won’t be getting any discount if the IC rule against them. I would also add at this time the FA haven’t charged City I wonder if any charges will follow the PL outcome.

Took your advice and had a (brief) read of the Sanctions Agreement

Some thoughts:

• The PL rule breaches (27 b.) are minor at best. Most relate to administrative requirements in reporting, timeliness and content of reports and a general obligation to act transparently. The only 'serious' ones were minor indiscretions that technically breached the rules for third-party ownership. Oh, and one (V.38) is just because the PL didn't get their cut of the Willian or Eto'o transfers. Pearl clutching in the extreme.
  
  

• In the absence of a PSR breach there was zero evidence of competitive advantage, so in that context our sentence is still far from lenient.
  
  

• The affected players all had 'minor' agents and a lot of other parties (eg family) advising them. It will be interesting to see how the FA approach this given the lax approach in other leagues/associations.
  
  

• BlueCo's self-report meant that Cech, Buck, Granovskaia and possibly Neil Bath's (as academy director) positions were untenable. The League seem to be at pains to state that a major reason for leniency is that none of the above are involved in the club anymore and are now outside jurisdiction. A cynic could say that BlueCo used this to oust them, I suppose...
  
  I actually don't buy the League's reasoning on that. If they saw fit to consider that the offending parties were no longer involved, why punish people who demonstrably had zero involvement? If the goal of punishment is deterrence, then why water down the punishment? (Not complaining obviously!)
  
  

• 17 b. (iii-v), where the League praises Chelsea's cooperation, also contains a clear admission that had the club never complied it had little chance of either identifying the breaches in the first place, or proving it to standard before a Commission. I tend to agree that it suggests the 'evidence' was actually quite limited for the purpose of legal proceedings, and much of the 'facts' were established only because the Club simply agreed with the League's position without contest.
  
  

• The PL suggest the 74 FA charges are more serious and are likely to attract a 'signficant sanction'. The PL also confirm that the FA's findings may trigger the currently-suspended 2-year transfer ban @Scott Harris. Again, I'm not entirely buying the 'leniency'...
  
  

• If England were still part of the EU, the FA charges would have an interesting legal showdown given recent rulings on restraint of trade for footballers. And having read the FA/FIFA rules for agents it seems that many would have skeletons in their closet. Rule J5 for example prevents Managers from having an interest in an organisation that acts as an agent; Erik Ten Hag is famous for using his own agency SEG.

  
  Also the rules say that any EU-national domiciled in England is eligible to be registered as an English agent. Do rules like this even apply post-Brexit??
  
  

• The Cypress Confidential release had limited impact. The PL clearly state (pg 5) that upon being made aware of the media allegations, it was the Club itself that investigated and dug up the necessary supporting evidence, not the media's files. Again were it not for the Club's intervention, the charges may never have had requisite proof.

Edited March 19Mar 19 by SydneyChelsea

Boehly's dream:

13 hours ago, The Rising Sun said:

"Jordan also said he doesn't believe Aluko "comes across as particularly likeable".

Jordan obviously doesn't know how he comes across!! What a prick that man is

Takes one to know one. Jordan is a twat, so is of good measure to see how much of a twat Aluko is.

7 hours ago, SydneyChelsea said:

Took your advice and had a (brief) read of the Sanctions Agreement

Some thoughts:

• The PL rule breaches (27 b.) are minor at best. Most relate to administrative requirements in reporting, timeliness and content of reports and a general obligation to act transparently. The only 'serious' ones were minor indiscretions that technically breached the rules for third-party ownership. Oh, and one (V.38) is just because the PL didn't get their cut of the Willian or Eto'o transfers. Pearl clutching in the extreme.
  
  

• In the absence of a PSR breach there was zero evidence of competitive advantage, so in that context our sentence is still far from lenient.
  
  

• The affected players all had 'minor' agents and a lot of other parties (eg family) advising them. It will be interesting to see how the FA approach this given the lax approach in other leagues/associations.
  
  

• BlueCo's self-report meant that Cech, Buck, Granovskaia and possibly Neil Bath's (as academy director) positions were untenable. The League seem to be at pains to state that a major reason for leniency is that none of the above are involved in the club anymore and are now outside jurisdiction. A cynic could say that BlueCo used this to oust them, I suppose...
  
  I actually don't buy the League's reasoning on that. If they saw fit to consider that the offending parties were no longer involved, why punish people who demonstrably had zero involvement? If the goal of punishment is deterrence, then why water down the punishment? (Not complaining obviously!)
  
  

• 17 b. (iii-v), where the League praises Chelsea's cooperation, also contains a clear admission that had the club never complied it had little chance of either identifying the breaches in the first place, or proving it to standard before a Commission. I tend to agree that it suggests the 'evidence' was actually quite limited for the purpose of legal proceedings, and much of the 'facts' were established only because the Club simply agreed with the League's position without contest.
  
  

• The PL suggest the 74 FA charges are more serious and are likely to attract a 'signficant sanction'. The PL also confirm that the FA's findings may trigger the currently-suspended 2-year transfer ban @Scott Harris. Again, I'm not entirely buying the 'leniency'...
  
  

• If England were still part of the EU, the FA charges would have an interesting legal showdown given recent rulings on restraint of trade for footballers. And having read the FA/FIFA rules for agents it seems that many would have skeletons in their closet. Rule J5 for example prevents Managers from having an interest in an organisation that acts as an agent; Erik Ten Hag is famous for using his own agency SEG.

  
  Also the rules say that any EU-national domiciled in England is eligible to be registered as an English agent. Do rules like this even apply post-Brexit??
  
  

• The Cypress Confidential release had limited impact. The PL clearly state (pg 5) that upon being made aware of the media allegations, it was the Club itself that investigated and dug up the necessary supporting evidence, not the media's files. Again were it not for the Club's intervention, the charges may never have had requisite proof.

Good read .

In terms of accreditation of agents is one thing but love it or hate it there are strict rules around that and by using third parties the club knew exactly what they were doing. I would add that although no proof I am 100% certain we aren’t the only club that an acted / acts in such a way.

What pisses me off with all this is if it wasn’t going to impact on PSR , which as we know is clearly the case, why didn’t the club just put it through the normal and correct process ? It surely can only have been because RA and his team knew the payments wouldn’t be in accord with regulator bodies regulations

I am conflicted about the self reporting . On one hand I wonder if they really had to self report but on the other the consequences of non reporting and an investigation further down the line digging up the issues probably outweighs all concerns . Too many knew about those skeletons and just as in the Luton case it only takes one whistleblower or the like of the Cypress Files

On balance I think they had no option but to self reporting and following the speed in which UEFA acted to settle for me their was a belief in BlueCo that matters couldn’t be proved even to a standard of beyond reasonable doubt.

It does tell us why so many senior officials resigned that’s for sure and the timings of those resignations I suspect tells us quite a lot . Particularly as none are named and as they are no longer in football or I assume will ever be able to work in football again.

In the academy player ruling it’s common place for charges to follow to the individual that committed the offence.

Far too many are minimising the size of the fine / sanction it’s the biggest ever. As you say there seems to be a suggestion around the FA Charges but what I am still unsure of is why the PL and FA in effect have both investigated when the norm usually is that it would only be one of them .

Edited March 19Mar 19 by terraloon

As I expected now the media are calling for all our trophies under Roman to be stripped, no doubt seeing what happened with the AFCoN final and thinking to award them to the runners up.

The other PL clubs said to have been contacted by Chris Masters and expressed thir views we should have received much harsher, long term punishments.