12 hours ago, El regreso said:

Have you ever started a new job and within months you pick up the bad habits from the tenured staff?

So even when the tenured staff leaves you carry on the bad habits and culture until new leadership comes in and decides you will be gone if attitude doesn't change

Bang on, the instutionalised culture won't change until we make radical squad changes.

We did that where I work, got rid of the bad eggs, and literally within weeks the whole atmosphere and work ethic was incredibly more positive. 

25 minutes ago, dkw said:

 

We did that where I work, got rid of the bad eggs, and literally within weeks the whole atmosphere and work ethic was incredibly more positive. 

Look at United, booted one of their legends out the door who was a drama Queen and trouble maker hasn’t affected them much has it.

Im glad they learnt their lesson in terms of overspending. 

14 minutes ago, Frankie8Lampard said:

Im glad they learnt their lesson in terms of overspending. 

This is good progress they were always going to learn the hard way but good they can see clubs were trying to take advantage but of them.

28 minutes ago, Frankie8Lampard said:

Im glad they learnt their lesson in terms of overspending. 

https://theathletic.com/4090699/2023/01/14/mykhailo-mudryk-chelsea-arsenal-transfer/?source=user_shared_articl

Evidently not.

1 minute ago, OriginalS said:

https://theathletic.com/4090699/2023/01/14/mykhailo-mudryk-chelsea-arsenal-transfer/?source=user_shared_articl

Evidently not.

Couldn’t make up the media coming out around Chelsea atm. 2 hours ago we’re acknowledging that we over spent in the summer and need to reign it in a bit, fast forward 2 hours and we’re spunking 100 mill on a player we arguably don’t even need haha. 

3 minutes ago, drjonesy1994 said:

Couldn’t make up the media coming out around Chelsea atm. 2 hours ago we’re acknowledging that we over spent in the summer and need to reign it in a bit, fast forward 2 hours and we’re spunking 100 mill on a player we arguably don’t even need haha. 

I would argue we do, or at least we need his kind of player from what I can see from the videos. We desperately need midfielders, that should be our priority. But we also lack direct, pacy runners, and he's definitely that.

All we have us Pulisic who actively avoids getting passed to, Ziyech who has no interest and an incredibly wasteful Stirling.

Obviously that's not to say this guy is guaranteed to succeed where they fail.

Edited January 14, 20233 yr by dkw

1 minute ago, dkw said:

I would argue we do, or at least we need his kind of player from what I can see from the videos. We desperately need midfielders, that should be our priority. But we also lack direct, pacy runners, and he's definitely that.

All we have us Pulisic who actively avoids getting passed to, Ziyech who has no interest and an incredibly wasteful Stirling.

Obviously that's not to say this guy is guaranteed to succeed where they fail.

Fair enough. I’ve also just seen that we are still working on signing a midfielder and a right back this window, so I’m calmer having read that haha. 

1 minute ago, dkw said:

We desperately need midfielders,

Total package for Mudryk who's an unproven winger from Ukraine is almost up there with Enzo's clause.

Surely getting Enzo (or let's say Caicedo for Mudryks fee) should have been what we did first?

1 minute ago, dkw said:

I would argue we do, or at least we need his kind of player from what I can see from the videos. We desperately need midfielders, that should be our priority. But we also lack direct, pacy runners, and he's definitely that.

All we have us Pulisic who actively avoids getting passed to, Ziyech who has no interest and an incredibly wasteful Stirling.

Obviously that's not to say this guy is guaranteed to succeed where they fail.

I agree, we need someone who frightens defenders not people who are frightened themselves, we have enough of that already.

Just now, 2211 said:

I agree, we need someone who frightens defenders not people who are frightened themselves, we have enough of that already.

That's a bloody great way of putting it, especially about Pulisic. 

Does Boehly know what FFP is?

Todd Bohley must be thinking because we bought 2 youngsters midfielder in summer we dont need anymore

 

FFS we need 1 NOW, not another winger

 

This clown will turn us into Everton isnt it?

7 minutes ago, Drogba1 said:

Does Boehly know what FFP is?

Obviously he does. Do you know what the word amortised means?

Just now, bisright1 said:

Obviously he does. Do you know what the word amortised means?

no

38 minutes ago, OriginalS said:

Total package for Mudryk who's an unproven winger from Ukraine is almost up there with Enzo's clause.

Surely getting Enzo (or let's say Caicedo for Mudryks fee) should have been what we did first?

Caicedo isn't that good though, is he? Good enough for Brighton's midfield, but hardly an untapped world class player like Kante was. Maybe I'm wrong though, I don't watch Brighton.

1 minute ago, Drogba1 said:

no

We are paying 70m guaranteed on a 7 year contract. 

For FFP that means he adds 10m to our costs for this year + his wages. Which by many accounts we are really starting to tie to performance rather. 

Boehly and his team will be targeting building a squad of let's say 25

Of those 25, a fair chunk won't have a transfer fee attached (e.g. an azpi or an academy player) and the rest will be costing a certain amount based on the 10m example. 

Add all those up and that's player costs.

So basically 70m doesn't just go out the door with FFP, it's spread out. Boehly and his team I believe are spending a lot now to balance out later (with sales / promoting youth players). 

The fact we are offering 7 year contracts is a clear example that we DO know how FFP works. 

42 minutes ago, OriginalS said:

Total package for Mudryk who's an unproven winger from Ukraine is almost up there with Enzo's clause.

Surely getting Enzo (or let's say Caicedo for Mudryks fee) should have been what we did first?

Maybe he ends up scoring a lot of goals, we do need that too.

No winger will do well until the midfield is fixed. We can't even pick out a forward pass.

Priorities are all wrong.

Everyone see Felix show his skill, play a ball to Mount and then make a beautiful run where he'd be 1v1 with the GK last match and instead of playing the ball back to Felix, Mount made a lazy side pass. 

Good example of our problems. We don't have mids who can connect the attack. Here ya go.

 

 

Edited January 14, 20233 yr by HonoreMeiBalsac

Simon gets it. 

 

57 minutes ago, bisright1 said:

We are paying 70m guaranteed on a 7 year contract. 

For FFP that means he adds 10m to our costs for this year + his wages. Which by many accounts we are really starting to tie to performance rather. 

Boehly and his team will be targeting building a squad of let's say 25

Of those 25, a fair chunk won't have a transfer fee attached (e.g. an azpi or an academy player) and the rest will be costing a certain amount based on the 10m example. 

Add all those up and that's player costs.

So basically 70m doesn't just go out the door with FFP, it's spread out. Boehly and his team I believe are spending a lot now to balance out later (with sales / promoting youth players). 

The fact we are offering 7 year contracts is a clear example that we DO know how FFP works. 

But we're paying the 70 mil up front right? Does that not come out of our book for this year? 

Murdyk seems like a signing Boehly has made to silence us a bit.

11 minutes ago, Drogba1 said:

But we're paying the 70 mil up front right? Does that not come out of our book for this year? 

No it's spread out over 7 years on the FFP books. Regardless of when the money lands in the selling clubs accounts 

Edited January 14, 20233 yr by bisright1

1 hour ago, HonoreMeiBalsac said:

Simon gets it. 

 

This