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BlueCo buy Chelsea FC

Old Shaggy
in General Chelsea FC

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3 hours ago, Ngolo said:

Neto is a consistent 7/10 player most games. Not a superstar, but a solid player to have in a squad. He'll get close to 10 goals and 10 assists a season. A nice age too, at 26. A lot of the other wide players are 18-22. He brings some needed maturity to the flanks. He's been surprisingly injury free at Chelsea compared to Wolves.

have you been in a coma for half a decade or something?

    6 hours ago, PloKoon13 said:

    Neto over Palmer?

    If there is a genuine acknowledgement among the board/sporting directors that their strategy to date has been unsuccessful and they are willing to change it (which I doubt), we should be aware that different doesn't necessarily mean good. There's every chance we end up signing the 2026 equivalents of Koulibaly, Sterling and Aubameyang, or even worse, whoever happens to play well at the World Cup.

    We also can't just draw a line under the farcical player recruitment under BlueCo and simply 'do better'. There is no buying club who will be interested in paying the amount for some of the unwanted squad players which wouldn't also f**k us from an SCR perspective. Consider also that we're a less attractive prospect for good players with no Champions' League football, and particularly now that we're a famous mess. We also have no idea who the manager is going to be, and Rosenior is hardly a draw if he stays on next season. We don't want to compound the issue by overpaying for players who won't make us better (which is exactly what we've done over the last two seasons with the exceptions of Pedro and Estêvão).

    There's a very real possibility that we won't qualify for Europe next season. This at least gives us the benefit of only needing enough players to win enough of 38 league games to get back into the Champions' League rather than also having to deal with a protracted European campaign. So how do we build the skeleton of a competitive squad out of what we already have? We need to figure out what we already have that is useful then use any money we are able to raise to plug the gaps competently (if they are serious about 'experienced and ready players').

    What we shouldn't do (but are more likely to) is to identify who we can sell at a profit (i.e. the good or club-trained players) then use the proceeds for incoming transfers. That way is 100% guaranteed to leave us with a mediocre side across the board rather than a smattering of genuinely good players surrounded by idiots. Our current core of good players with the addition of a competent goalkeeper, striker and a couple of wide men could probably pull it off.

    Just in case:

    DO NOT SELL UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES:

    James, Colwill, Acheampong, Caicedo, Palmer, Estêvão, Chalobah, Pedro.

    FEEL FREE TO SELL:

    Cucurella, Fernández, Lavia, Jackson, Gusto, Santos, George, Anselmino.

    PROBABLY CAN'T SELL EVEN THOUGH WE'D LIKE TO:

    Neto, Gittens, Fofana, Garnacho, Badiashile, Disasi.

    ACTIVELY LOOK TO GET RID OF:

    Adarabioyo, Jörgensen, Delap, Guiu, Slonina.

    You should have a list for Arsenal, Arteta likes a Chelsea winger.

    It was clear that Rosenior was out of his depth, but his sacking changes next to nothing at Stamford Bridge. We still have clueless owners recruiting poor staff and in turn mainly poor players.

    Names like Iriola, Silva and Tadic will result in nothing much different to what we’ve seen from Potter, Maresca, Rosenior and whichever other ones have been not very good and also working with a squad nowhere near good enough to compete at the very top.

    Will the next one make it to Christmas? Will we ever climb above 6th in the table again? Could the next guy carry on the job of going full Spurs?

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    6 hours ago, PloKoon13 said:

    FEEL FREE TO SELL:

    Cucurella, Fernández, Lavia, Jackson, Gusto, Santos, George, Anselmino.

    I agree with the majority of your post but I’m going to argue with you including Andrey Santos on that list.

    He is one of our biggest talents and I genuinely think he will become world class. We must not sell him, under any circumstances.

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    1 hour ago, GarnachoCheese said:

    have you been in a coma for half a decade or something?

    He reads like a poster, banned, back with a new user name. Someone you had dealings with.

    The Sporting Directors are sh*t...and our Consortium's transfer policy that they are tasked with carrying out is even bigger sh*t

    "The consortium BlueCo, led by Clearlake Capital and Todd Boehly—are directly responsible for the club's transfer policy, acting as the primary architects of a strategy that has focused on signing young players on long-term contracts

    Key details regarding their involvement include:

    Active Control: Boehly and Eghbali have been heavily involved in transfer negotiations and club operations, particularly during the initial transfer windows, with Eghbali taking a major role in later recruitment drives.

    The "Vision": The owners are credited with the strategy of targeting elite, young talent to build a team for the future, rather than focusing solely on immediate, proven talent."

    I'll take it with a pinch of salt, but I really hope they are starting to realise what a mess they've made. The board are facing criticism at every angle right now, surely these pricks can't be so stubborn that they don't change how they're running this club.

    BlueCo era (2022-Present)

    1. Thomas Tuchel 🇩🇪 = 7 (3-1-3)

    2. Graham Potter 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 = 31 (12-8-11)

    3. Bruno Saltor 🇪🇸 = 1 (0-1-0)

    4. Frank Lampard 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 = 11 (1-2-8)

    5. Mauricio Pochettino 🇦🇷 = 51 (26-11-14)

    6. Enzo Maresca 🇮🇹 = 92 (55-16-21)

    7. Calum McFarlane 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 = 2 (0-1-1)

    8. Liam Rosenior 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 = 23 (11-2-10)

    9. Calum McFarlane 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 = 0 (0-0-0)

    218 games played (108 wins, 42 draws, 68 losses) = 49.54% winning record.

    After 4 years, this is what they’ve produced. A monumental failure from the owners and SDs.

    Edited by Jezz

    It’s hard to see why any established, self respecting top manager would want to take the Chelsea job. No clear long term structure, no authority to implement your ideas, a poorly assembled inexperienced squad in need of upheaval, too much interference from those up top when it comes to transfers, substitutions, tactics, team talks, half time and full time dressing room visits etc. Having to operate in these conditions and environment and the risk of permanently damaging your reputation and future employment prospects is just not worth it.

    As a Chelsea fan I would advise all prospective managers to stay away under the current ownership.

    I also see breaches in financial fair play and regulation coming up due to reckless spending, extortionate prices paid for young players with no resale value, no European football and failure to secure sponsorship.

    Here’s an idea, Eghbali, Boehly and the SP’s should be in the dugout when Chelsea are fighting relegation, because that is our current trajectory, and should be in the dugout when Chelsea do get relegated.

    52 minutes ago, Jezz said:

    BlueCo era (2022-Present)

    1. Thomas Tuchel 🇩🇪 = 7 (3-1-3)

    2. Graham Potter 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 = 31 (12-8-11)

    3. Bruno Saltor 🇪🇸 = 1 (0-1-0)

    4. Frank Lampard 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 = 11 (1-2-8)

    5. Mauricio Pochettino 🇦🇷 = 51 (26-11-14)

    6. Enzo Maresca 🇮🇹 = 92 (55-16-21)

    7. Calum McFarlane 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 = 2 (0-1-1)

    8. Liam Rosenior 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 = 23 (11-2-10)

    9. Calum McFarlane 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 = 0 (0-0-0)

    218 games played (108 wins, 42 draws, 68 losses) = 49.54% winning record.

    After 4 years, this is what they’ve produced. A monumental failure from the owners and SDs.

    They just need some “self reflection” mate.

    Thought this was an interesting chart confirming we have been outrun by all 34 teams we’ve played this season. Perhaps possession based football drove part of this, but still, confirms the eye test and is a problem.

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    WHO THE HELL DOES THIS BLOKE THINK HE IS?

    ITS FROM SOME C**NT WRITING FOR THE TIMES (ITS BEHIND A PAYWALL)

    Chelsea escaped justice for so long — this self-sabotage is heavenly

    With Liam Rosenior gone and the club in chaos, I can’t help thinking there is poetic justice in the world. This is what you call comeuppance after the rotten Roman Abramovich era

    Matthew Syed

    So who saw that coming? Except everyone. Liam Rosenior is gone, Chelsea are still in freefall, the hopeless board (which frankly is responsible for this debacle) is still in place and those shameful fans are singing the name of Roman Abramovich while (as they did after that excruciating spectacle against Brighton) telling their now excommunicated head coach to “f*** off”.

    It’s a palaver or, depending on your perspective, absolute comedy gold. I hate to say it, but I can’t help thinking that there is some poetic justice in the world. This is what you call comeuppance, what the Germans call schadenfreude, what the rest of us call absolutely wonderful japes. Five straight league defeats. No goals. A sense of utter hopelessness. Could it happen to a nicer club?

    Actually scrap that. I am not going to pretend there is some congenital problem with Chelsea FC themselves. I know quite a few fans. Like quite a few. The former sports editor of this parish, top guy, was one of the most devoted Chelsea fans who ever lived. So into the club, he was, that when they played Barcelona in some Champions League match a few moons ago, he was so on edge that he hoped they’d concede early so he could relax. It’s the hope that kills you, he said, ashen-faced, on the big day.

    But I hope he’d acknowledge, and other thoughtful Chelsea fans, too, that the glee surrounding the club’s present predicament is not (just) animated by a contempt for Chelsea FC themselves. It’s about something more disturbing. I’m talking about the way Chelsea became the plaything of an oligarch, how they cheated in industrial fashion, how they got away with it courtesy of a hopeless governing body only ever interested in punishing the relatively minor indiscretions of smaller clubs. It is about a sense that Chelsea after the takeover by Abramovich in 2003 became symptomatic of everything rotten in the state of Denmark; sorry, football

    And let me mention again the chanting of Abramovich’s name by a not insignificant section of fans. What are they thinking? Are they thinking at all? This is the guy who on Wednesday informed the world that he is taking the Jersey authorities to the European Court of Human Rights because they are taking a bit too long to investigate whether he purchased Chelsea with the “proceeds of crime”, a claim he denies. Nice chap, Roman. Lovely grin. Benefactor of football. At least, that’s what the former Chelsea chairman Bruce Buck used to tell us.

    I just hope the European court takes the time to ask Roman (or his representatives) the following question: what about the human rights of the Russian people whose sovereign wealth was carved up by people like you in return for giving Boris Yeltsin access to TV channels before a presidential election? What about the people whose minerals were plundered by oligarchs who became richer than Croesus while they came close to mass starvation? The court should remind him of what the economist Paul Gregory said about the Sibneft deal through which Abramovich garnered his grotesque wealth: “The largest single heist in corporate history.”

    And yet in retrospect perhaps the most stunning thing about Chelsea is that even though they had access to all this dubiously gotten money; even though Abramovich’s QC admitted in open court during the astonishing Boris Berezovsky trial that it was all gained through a rigged auction; even though it was obvious that the success he had in recycling the cash through a football club offered a green light to others to plunder yet more money from the Russian people, it wasn’t enough for those running Chelsea. They wanted more. Much more.

    For it was during this era that they embarked on a sustained episode of rule-breaking that made Zammo from Grange Hill look like a monk, with secret payments to players, staff and intermediaries that totalled £47.5million between 2011 and 2018 — a period in which they won two Premier League titles, two FA Cups, the Champions League and the Europa League. And let us never forget that it was the fact that Chelsea were willing to brazenly cheat while others obeyed the rules that enabled the club to sign some of the most influential players of the era — financial irregularities that were, we should acknowledge, reported to the authorities by the present regime. One of those players, of course, was Eden Hazard, whom Manchester United turned down after his agent demanded an illicit bung.

    And this is why many believe that Chelsea’s ill-gotten trophies should be seized; why their titles should be annulled; why there should be a fresh wave of open-top bus parades for the real winners. But, tragically, such natural justice is beyond the moral orbit of the craven charlatans who run this game. They prefer to kick clubs like Nottingham Forest and Everton in the shins for inadvertently breaching spending limits by a few quid. In this morally inverted sport, it always seems to be a case of one rule for the big clubs, another for everyone else.

    But this is my point. Having escaped meaningful justice for so long, isn’t it heavenly to see Chelsea shooting themselves in the foot? Isn’t it great to witness a board so utterly incompetent that it is handing out its own version of a points deduction: not through judicial decree but via utterly woeful form? And isn’t it delicious that some fans are still chanting Abramovich’s name, invoking the spectre of the man who will perhaps always haunt the club, while reminding the rest of us just how funny this is? 

    So, keep it up Chelsea. All power to you. In fact, let me join in: Roman, Roman, Roman! For this no longer sounds like a defiant chant but an utterly humiliating one, evoking the moral vacuum at the heart of what this club became. A club now spiralling into an abyss of their own making. 

    •
    34 minutes ago, Caps_Lock_King said:

    WHO THE HELL DOES THIS BLOKE THINK HE IS?

    ITS FROM SOME C**NT WRITING FOR THE TIMES (ITS BEHIND A PAYWALL)

    Chelsea escaped justice for so long — this self-sabotage is heavenly

    With Liam Rosenior gone and the club in chaos, I can’t help thinking there is poetic justice in the world. This is what you call comeuppance after the rotten Roman Abramovich era

    Matthew Syed

    So who saw that coming? Except everyone. Liam Rosenior is gone, Chelsea are still in freefall, the hopeless board (which frankly is responsible for this debacle) is still in place and those shameful fans are singing the name of Roman Abramovich while (as they did after that excruciating spectacle against Brighton) telling their now excommunicated head coach to “f*** off”.

    It’s a palaver or, depending on your perspective, absolute comedy gold. I hate to say it, but I can’t help thinking that there is some poetic justice in the world. This is what you call comeuppance, what the Germans call schadenfreude, what the rest of us call absolutely wonderful japes. Five straight league defeats. No goals. A sense of utter hopelessness. Could it happen to a nicer club?

    Actually scrap that. I am not going to pretend there is some congenital problem with Chelsea FC themselves. I know quite a few fans. Like quite a few. The former sports editor of this parish, top guy, was one of the most devoted Chelsea fans who ever lived. So into the club, he was, that when they played Barcelona in some Champions League match a few moons ago, he was so on edge that he hoped they’d concede early so he could relax. It’s the hope that kills you, he said, ashen-faced, on the big day.

    But I hope he’d acknowledge, and other thoughtful Chelsea fans, too, that the glee surrounding the club’s present predicament is not (just) animated by a contempt for Chelsea FC themselves. It’s about something more disturbing. I’m talking about the way Chelsea became the plaything of an oligarch, how they cheated in industrial fashion, how they got away with it courtesy of a hopeless governing body only ever interested in punishing the relatively minor indiscretions of smaller clubs. It is about a sense that Chelsea after the takeover by Abramovich in 2003 became symptomatic of everything rotten in the state of Denmark; sorry, football

    And let me mention again the chanting of Abramovich’s name by a not insignificant section of fans. What are they thinking? Are they thinking at all? This is the guy who on Wednesday informed the world that he is taking the Jersey authorities to the European Court of Human Rights because they are taking a bit too long to investigate whether he purchased Chelsea with the “proceeds of crime”, a claim he denies. Nice chap, Roman. Lovely grin. Benefactor of football. At least, that’s what the former Chelsea chairman Bruce Buck used to tell us.

    I just hope the European court takes the time to ask Roman (or his representatives) the following question: what about the human rights of the Russian people whose sovereign wealth was carved up by people like you in return for giving Boris Yeltsin access to TV channels before a presidential election? What about the people whose minerals were plundered by oligarchs who became richer than Croesus while they came close to mass starvation? The court should remind him of what the economist Paul Gregory said about the Sibneft deal through which Abramovich garnered his grotesque wealth: “The largest single heist in corporate history.”

    And yet in retrospect perhaps the most stunning thing about Chelsea is that even though they had access to all this dubiously gotten money; even though Abramovich’s QC admitted in open court during the astonishing Boris Berezovsky trial that it was all gained through a rigged auction; even though it was obvious that the success he had in recycling the cash through a football club offered a green light to others to plunder yet more money from the Russian people, it wasn’t enough for those running Chelsea. They wanted more. Much more.

    For it was during this era that they embarked on a sustained episode of rule-breaking that made Zammo from Grange Hill look like a monk, with secret payments to players, staff and intermediaries that totalled £47.5million between 2011 and 2018 — a period in which they won two Premier League titles, two FA Cups, the Champions League and the Europa League. And let us never forget that it was the fact that Chelsea were willing to brazenly cheat while others obeyed the rules that enabled the club to sign some of the most influential players of the era — financial irregularities that were, we should acknowledge, reported to the authorities by the present regime. One of those players, of course, was Eden Hazard, whom Manchester United turned down after his agent demanded an illicit bung.

    And this is why many believe that Chelsea’s ill-gotten trophies should be seized; why their titles should be annulled; why there should be a fresh wave of open-top bus parades for the real winners. But, tragically, such natural justice is beyond the moral orbit of the craven charlatans who run this game. They prefer to kick clubs like Nottingham Forest and Everton in the shins for inadvertently breaching spending limits by a few quid. In this morally inverted sport, it always seems to be a case of one rule for the big clubs, another for everyone else.

    But this is my point. Having escaped meaningful justice for so long, isn’t it heavenly to see Chelsea shooting themselves in the foot? Isn’t it great to witness a board so utterly incompetent that it is handing out its own version of a points deduction: not through judicial decree but via utterly woeful form? And isn’t it delicious that some fans are still chanting Abramovich’s name, invoking the spectre of the man who will perhaps always haunt the club, while reminding the rest of us just how funny this is? 

    So, keep it up Chelsea. All power to you. In fact, let me join in: Roman, Roman, Roman! For this no longer sounds like a defiant chant but an utterly humiliating one, evoking the moral vacuum at the heart of what this club became. A club now spiralling into an abyss of their own making. 

    I believe Matthew Syed is a bitter gooner. He has always despised Chelsea and has never attempted to disguise it.

    37 minutes ago, forbzy said:

    I believe Matthew Syed is a bitter gooner. He has always despised Chelsea and has never attempted to disguise it.

    Yes. Always has been the archetypal tosspot Arsenal fan. His hatred for us goes back decades and clearly precedes the Roman era. That bollox above is par for the course, but it's a disgrace that any MSM sports editor sees fit to print sub-fanzine sh*te like that.

    Edited by Backbiter

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