Stole this off of twitter. 😁

 

Debt free wherever we may be

We’re gonna sign everyone we see

And we don’t give a f**k about the transfer fee

Cause we’re the wealthy #CFC

Roman is a legend and of course, we will miss him. Best owner ever. 
 

However, it feels like it might be a good time for a new owner. With Romans visa issues, it hasn’t felt the same without Roman and there are elements were we are badly run. I think a bit of fresh perspective and impetus will do the club good. 

2 hours ago, 2211 said:

Unbelievable isn't it, they are bending over backwards to make Liverpool fans look like saints.

It's horrible.

For an outlet that gave Bruce Grobelaar the platform to blame us for the deaths of 39 people, they seem pretty concerned with others posting the "truth" about stadium incidents now!

The end of a 19 year chapter, and time to write the next time.

I'm excited!  KTBFFH!!!

5 hours ago, Nick05 said:

They're trying to make themselves feel better after their liverpool lovefest came to naught with the CL final. They can f**k off for all we care.

I've forgotten more about football, than these so called experts could ever dream of knowing,...Experts on what spouting made up and recycled sh*te.....thats what!

Few reports out there say TT has requested Jules Kounde as his number 1 transfer target. Apparently he was also the number 1 target of Tommy last season as well.

Other reports say Barcas Dembele has a official contract offer from us and has spoke to TT directly.

Best of luck to Todd and his team, and welcome to Chelsea !

I suspect most of us would settle for an owner even half as good as Roman has been, but I have a feeling that things are about to get even better ! 

22 hours ago, Kev56 said:

Then keep them locked in for an hour or so and get hit with a baton by the police, for no reason what so ever. ( personal experience ) 

Kev I have had that same experience. The rush to get the coach back to the Airport was legendary !!

9 hours ago, Kyle said:

It's horrible.

For an outlet that gave Bruce Grobelaar the platform to blame us for the deaths of 39 people, they seem pretty concerned with others posting the "truth" about stadium incidents now!

I cancelled yesterday. I’d rather deal with dodgy streams!

As  the dust starts to settle I am starting to turn my thoughts as to how the new owners turn a profit and just what they were thinking in paying £2.5 billion for an asset which in truth must be at the top end of his valuation.

There’s an interesting article in the Athletic that is asking very much the same question and what is abundantly clear is that the Bohey group are going to move things forward in a very different way.

Thirty years ago when Arsenal were thinking about a new stadium they gambled massively on match-day being perhaps the biggest in terms of value revenue stream. They got caught cold because far from it being say 33% of total income it slipped everywhere and even they struggle to get it over 25%. 
 

Of course there is a desire to improve SB and that is a given but it’s abundantly clear that the match-day experience going forward is going to be different. Shops, eating , drinking and entertainment will make it a half day experience as opposed to 90 minutes and then home. What the suggestion is that if for every £0.50 a match day supporters spends at SB to £1 ( which they probably spend double this elsewhere on top of the ticket price ) then  the match day income stream will double 

But what struck me is the desire to tap into the supporters who are in their millions but actually don’t contribute anything. And that is where the traditional thinking goes out of the window. There is a suggestion that there will be a virtual match day experience in effect letting you watch the game as if you were in a seat at SB . The suggestion is the technology is nearly there.

I have made the mistake, the pundits have fallen into the  same trap as has just about every supporter in that we are all are looking at the today model whereas this won’t be about spending along the lines enjoyed under RA it’s about cutting out waste, cutting out those exceptional items which have amounted to about£100k a week for the whole  the RA tenure , avoiding folly  transfers which probably account for another £200- 300k a week  and pretty soon the numbers don’t look so ludicrous when you create new income streams, tap properly into the commercial market along the lines of Utd, Liverpool and yes City, create a more rounded match day experience and develop the kit deals to include a unique clothing brand as opposed to being heavily focused on shirts.

Interesting  times ahead because it’s really possible that unlike  the Liverpool, Utd and City models we are blessed to be in London and a really smart area of the city at that and possibly just like a Utd did when they were the market leaders in terms of commercial we have a real chance of being in the vanguard of technology in football and that could make a massive massive difference going forward 

 

Edited May 31, 20224 yr by terraloon

2 hours ago, terraloon said:

As  the dust starts to settle I am starting to turn my thoughts as to how the new owners turn a profit and just what they were thinking in paying £2.5 billion for an asset which in truth must be at the top end of his valuation.

There’s an interesting article in the Athletic that is asking very much the same question and what is abundantly clear is that the Bohey group are going to move things forward in a very different way.

Thirty years ago when Arsenal were thinking about a new stadium they gambled massively on match-day being perhaps the biggest in terms of value revenue stream. They got caught cold because far from it being say 33% of total income it slipped everywhere and even they struggle to get it over 25%. 
 

Of course there is a desire to improve SB and that is a given but it’s abundantly clear that the match-day experience going forward is going to be different. Shops, eating , drinking and entertainment will make it a half day experience as opposed to 90 minutes and then home. What the suggestion is that if for every £0.50 a match day supporters spends at SB to £1 ( which they probably spend double this elsewhere on top of the ticket price ) then  the match day income stream will double 

But what struck me is the desire to tap into the supporters who are in their millions but actually don’t contribute anything. And that is where the traditional thinking goes out of the window. There is a suggestion that there will be a virtual match day experience in effect letting you watch the game as if you were in a seat at SB . The suggestion is the technology is nearly there.

I have made the mistake, the pundits have fallen into the  same trap as has just about every supporter in that we are all are looking at the today model whereas this won’t be about spending along the lines enjoyed under RA it’s about cutting out waste, cutting out those exceptional items which have amounted to about£100k a week for the whole  the RA tenure , avoiding folly  transfers which probably account for another £200- 300k a week  and pretty soon the numbers don’t look so ludicrous when you create new income streams, tap properly into the commercial market along the lines of Utd, Liverpool and yes City, create a more rounded match day experience and develop the kit deals to include a unique clothing brand as opposed to being heavily focused on shirts.

Interesting  times ahead because it’s really possible that unlike  the Liverpool, Utd and City models we are blessed to be in London and a really smart area of the city at that and possibly just like a Utd did when they were the market leaders in terms of commercial we have a real chance of being in the vanguard of technology in football and that could make a massive massive difference going forward 

 

top 4/5 clubs top be worth near 10bn in a decade theyre saying!

Safe place to invest and they will re coup everything taking the club public or selling etc

@terraloon

I think they will likely to find it difficult to raise our revenue a lot.

I thnk they will expand us in the US yet struggle beyond that unless we buy the next superstar from Brazil or somewhere with that type of pulling power.

I guess about a million in the UK have some allegiance to Chelsea mainly based south of the Thames yet post Brexit, post COV-ID economic downtown and now Ukraine many people are feeling economic pain. Suggests disposable income will be tighter.

Advertising revenues will probably increase and I would expect them to get Chelsea on a tv station in parts of the US.

I think they are going to find it harder than they envisaged to get good returns.

I will be interested to see how United's revenue figures hold up  as another poor season will start to impact their international following at some point.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 31, 20224 yr by strider6004

2 hours ago, strider6004 said:

@terraloon

I think they will likely to find it difficult to raise our revenue a lot.

I thnk they will expand us in the US yet struggle beyond that unless we buy the next superstar from Brazil or somewhere with that type of pulling power.

I guess about a million in the UK have some allegiance to Chelsea mainly based south of the Thames yet post Brexit, post COV-ID economic downtown and now Ukraine many people are feeling economic pain. Suggests disposable income will be tighter.

Advertising revenues will probably increase and I would expect them to get Chelsea on a tv station in parts of the US.

I think they are going to find it harder than they envisaged to get good returns.

I will be interested to see how United's revenue figures hold up  as another poor season will start to impact their international following at some point.

 

 

 

 

 

 

When RA shipped up it was difficult to see how our revenues would hit even &75 million yet here we are 19 years later and they are certainly over £400 million .

I am not one of those that like the phrase Blue Sky Thinking but that very much what the new owners are applying.

The top 6 clubs in the PL are juggernauts in financial terms and whilst the SL has been parked there will inevitably be  a more collaborative approach going forward . 
 

In just 20 years we now have deals with shirt manufacturers  and front of shirt sponsors which generate circa £100 million at each top 6 club. Just suppose those top 6 clubs could somehow agree with say Amazon for say Man City, Liverpool and us  for a combined sponsorship and maybe with Adidas for a combined shirt manufacturing  deal. Now I am not saying that is remotely likely  or indeed possible but if clubs can squeeze that extra 20-30 million a season then who knows.

My guess is that commercial and sponsorship will change massively but that can only happen with success on the pitch so CL qualification as a minimum will become a KPI for us the problem is that to achieve that it will require significant expenditure on players and so the circle continues

A decent article in the Mail for a change.  

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-10869167/Chelsea-Roman-Abramovichs-greatest-gift-creating-club-appealing-billionaire-buyer.html

 

It’s been 24 hours and they’ve not spent billions on new players yet. Disgraceful. 

59 minutes ago, Munkworth said:

It’s been 24 hours and they’ve not spent billions on new players yet. Disgraceful. 

Tbf, everone was very busy designing a nice picture. 

Come back tomorrow, I'm sure we've signed a whole new back 8.

1 hour ago, Munkworth said:

It’s been 24 hours and they’ve not spent billions on new players yet. Disgraceful. 

Maybe tomorrow they can satisfy your demands and announce the signing of James Ward-Prowse and Kyle Walker-Peters

36 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

Maybe tomorrow they can satisfy your demands and announce the signing of James Ward-Prowse and Kyle Walker-Peters

I've always dreamt of fielding an eleven consisting entirely of players with hyphenated surnames.

15 minutes ago, Amputechture said:

I've always dreamt of fielding an eleven consisting entirely of players with hyphenated surnames.

Can you name an 11 made up of such players? 😉

2 hours ago, Munkworth said:

It’s been 24 hours and they’ve not spent billions on new players yet. Disgraceful. 

right>?!>! does TODD EVEN CARE?????? This is what we get for letting someone buy the club with the same letter at the end of his first name duplicated! 

5 hours ago, terraloon said:

When RA shipped up it was difficult to see how our revenues would hit even &75 million yet here we are 19 years later and they are certainly over £400 million .

I am not one of those that like the phrase Blue Sky Thinking but that very much what the new owners are applying.

The top 6 clubs in the PL are juggernauts in financial terms and whilst the SL has been parked there will inevitably be  a more collaborative approach going forward . 
 

In just 20 years we now have deals with shirt manufacturers  and front of shirt sponsors which generate circa £100 million at each top 6 club. Just suppose those top 6 clubs could somehow agree with say Amazon for say Man City, Liverpool and us  for a combined sponsorship and maybe with Adidas for a combined shirt manufacturing  deal. Now I am not saying that is remotely likely  or indeed possible but if clubs can squeeze that extra 20-30 million a season then who knows.

My guess is that commercial and sponsorship will change massively but that can only happen with success on the pitch so CL qualification as a minimum will become a KPI for us the problem is that to achieve that it will require significant expenditure on players and so the circle continues

Most of any additional income will go to the players, as it did over the last twenty years.

We must remember all the time that all of this money, all of it, comes from fans. As we speculate about ever increasing sponsorship deals we have to bear in mind that we are speculating about how much more of our own money we want to shovel in players' bank accounts.

10 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

Can you name an 11 made up of such players? 😉

 

7 minutes ago, Munkworth said:

 

@Argo will be outraged!

All those players and yet Hudson-Odoi could not even make make bench for Mansfield lmao.

53 minutes ago, Amputechture said:

I've always dreamt of fielding an eleven consisting entirely of players with hyphenated surnames.

 

37 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

Can you name an 11 made up of such players? 😉

I've got seven including; a keeper, a defender, a midfielder, three wingers and a striker. The list features first teamers, academy players, a loan player, a retired player from the Roman era, and one from back in my day who I think younger fans might struggle to recall. I only remember him because I worked with his cousin.

Edited May 31, 20224 yr by OhForAGreavsie

11 hours ago, terraloon said:

I have made the mistake, the pundits have fallen into the  same trap as has just about every supporter in that we are all are looking at the today model whereas this won’t be about spending along the lines enjoyed under RA it’s about cutting out waste, cutting out those exceptional items which have amounted to about£100k a week for the whole  the RA tenure , avoiding folly  transfers which probably account for another £200- 300k a week  and pretty soon the numbers don’t look so ludicrous when you create new income streams, tap properly into the commercial market along the lines of Utd, Liverpool and yes City, create a more rounded match day experience and develop the kit deals to include a unique clothing brand as opposed to being heavily focused on shirts.

To be fair, I think this is what everyone has been talking about and hoping for.