I’d swear to god that some have never said anything good about the club, nor under Roman nor now, and some of you only serve as speakers to bad news. Don’t you get tired of bashing the club and never have anything positive to say about Chelsea?

I’d have thought nkunku preceded Vivell’ s formal appointment. You can see it as chaos but equally that a clear structure and hierarchy is now in place. Vivell clearly expected to be higher in the pecking order and not getting that is leaving. Fair enough. 

Reading between the lines, he wanted Felix here permanently and was (thankfully) outvoted.

Edited July 21, 20232 yr by Argo

56 minutes ago, Argo said:

Reading between the lines, he wanted Felix here permanently and was (thankfully) outvoted.

Thank god. And the real translation to that is quite simply = Vivell was under the influence of agent supreme Jorge Mendes’ spell.

 

People will interpret this as chaos, but IMO its more about refining the hierarchy of the club, can't have too many people doing the same thing.

1 hour ago, RMH said:

I’d swear to god that some have never said anything good about the club, nor under Roman nor now, and some of you only serve as speakers to bad news. Don’t you get tired of bashing the club and never have anything positive to say about Chelsea?

As a founding member of club negativity I give you a resounding:

 

;)

Vivell was touted to be quite high up in the pecking order and was meant to be looking after the global element of it - but found himself reporting into Winstanley and Stewart. Doubt that would have gone down well

Our bonkers owners have been doing a good job of selling off the flops (a good few of which they’d just signed) and only a few more to go (Cucurella, Stirling and Lukaku please). But now we have a relatively small and very inexperienced squad. Is there any hope they can make some good signings to add quality and experience to the squad?

I see they’re still all at sea in the offices, so my hopes of them successfully improving the squad are pretty low.

10 hours ago, RMH said:

I’d swear to god that some have never said anything good about the club, nor under Roman nor now, and some of you only serve as speakers to bad news. Don’t you get tired of bashing the club and never have anything positive to say about Chelsea?

I put this in the vivelli thread, but want to use it to reply to you as your 100% bamg on, there's a weird set of fans desperate to show how much they hate everything about Chelsea like it makes them the bestest fans ever, so odd and tedious.

I think perspective is needed on all these issues, the purchase of the club and initial structure was done in a ridiculously short time scale, something that would usually be several months of planning was threw into place in a few weeks to cover people leaving etc.

That didn't go well, and I'm actually impressed on how quickly they have seen the problems and acted to get them sorted.

Obviously this goes against certain "fans" agenda that they're a bunch of yank idiots who have no idea what theyre doing blah blah blah yakkity smakkity

19 hours ago, Argo said:

Reading between the lines, he wanted Felix here permanently and was (thankfully) outvoted.

How does this Tyrone Zehring bloke get his information about our Directors and what goes on behind closed doors ?

14 hours ago, The Rising Sun said:

How does this Tyrone Zehring bloke get his information about our Directors and what goes on behind closed doors ?

He doesn't.

As the old saying has it, opinions are like sphincters*.

(*That's not the actual old saying thanks to censorship but you get the drift)

8 hours ago, dermott said:

As the old saying has it, opinions are like sphincters*.

(*That's not the actual old saying thanks to censorship but you get the drift)

Everyone's got one and most of em stink 

Least Christmastime will be beautiful for our players sent out on loan. 
 

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CvICv4YgYfk/?igshid=YzcxN2Q2NzY0OA== 

Edited July 25, 20232 yr by Sconnie Blue

One rumour doing the rounds is that the owners, rather than directors, are pushing for Gallagher and Chalobah to be sold and replaced with players for cheaper fees and wages.

This might tie in to what Pochettino said about him supporting the club's decision.

 

Jan talks about it here:

 

 

 

Edited July 25, 20232 yr by axman2526

17 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

One rumour doing the rounds is that the owners, rather than directors, are pushing for Gallagher and Chalobah to be sold and replaced with players for cheaper fees and wages.

This might tie in to what Pochettino said about him supporting the club's decision.

Doesn't make much sense when they are two of our lowest paid players ?

Granted we can get nice fees for them that will count as pure profit for FFP purposes ... so that is a more likely angle to me than a wages argument.

Gallagher I can understand. I can't with Chalobah. 

7 minutes ago, Sexyfootball said:

Doesn't make much sense when they are two of our lowest paid players ?

Granted we can get nice fees for them that will count as pure profit for FFP purposes ... so that is a more likely angle to me than a wages argument.

They're both on around 50,000 a week. Sounds like clickbait tosh to me.

56 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

One rumour doing the rounds is that the owners, rather than directors, are pushing for Gallagher and Chalobah to be sold and replaced with players for cheaper fees and wages.

This might tie in to what Pochettino said about him supporting the club's decision.

 

Jan talks about it here:

 

 

 

So negative @axman2526, so negative. You're tiring Sconnieblue, where is your empathy 😜

 

f**k 'em all, just some attention seeker.

Edited July 25, 20232 yr by Valerie

39 minutes ago, Sexyfootball said:

Doesn't make much sense when they are two of our lowest paid players ?

Granted we can get nice fees for them that will count as pure profit for FFP purposes ... so that is a more likely angle to me than a wages argument.

Yeah did seem strange with Trev. He signed a new deal not long ago and surely, unless we replace him with a youth player like Humphreys, it would cost us more in fee and wages to replace him.

With Conor he has 2 years left on his deal, likely worth double what Trev is, and who knows how much he wants to sign a new deal per week.

5 minutes ago, Valerie said:

So negative @axman2526, so negative. You're tiring Sconnieblue, where is your empathy 😜

 

f**k 'em all, just some attention seeker.

Only ever for you attention my dear  ;)

It's amusing that all this speculation stem from an Athletic report that states Chalobah is a sellable asset simply because he would bring in a pure profit transfer fee that we are still apparently starving for. 

Also, worth noting that Liam Twomey from the Athletic is very unreliable given he is not a transfer correspondent like Ornstein is. 

https://theathletic.com/4716154/2023/07/24/conor-gallagher-chelsea-tottenham-west-ham/?source=user-shared-article

12 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

It's amusing that all this speculation stem from an Athletic report that states Chalobah is a sellable asset simply because he would bring in a pure profit transfer fee that we are still apparently starving for. 

Also, worth noting that Liam Twomey from the Athletic is very unreliable given he is not a transfer correspondent like Ornstein is. 

https://theathletic.com/4716154/2023/07/24/conor-gallagher-chelsea-tottenham-west-ham/?source=user-shared-article

Along with Simon Johnson nothing more than a waffle merchant on Straight Outa Cobham.

3 minutes ago, dermott said:

Along with Simon Johnson nothing more than a waffle merchant on Straight Outa Cobham.

They may have connections to the club, but this screams as old recycled news. Maybe back in June Chalobah was a sellable asset before Fofana's injury and certainly before we sold Mount, Havertz, and Kovacic. 

9 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

They may have connections to the club, but this screams as old recycled news. Maybe back in June Chalobah was a sellable asset before Fofana's injury and certainly before we sold Mount, Havertz, and Kovacic. 

Today's gem was this one :

It relates to Brian Fiabema, who was on our released list to the PL back on 16th June, and effective 1st July. So this muppet journalist at CaughtOffside is really on the ball in his "scoop" in the last hour LOL