17 hours ago, axman2526 said:

Strasbourg fan group, with their team sitting just above the relegation zone, have come out continuing their protests against Blue Co, and have said something along the lines of "money without it being competently used us a waste, and we only have to look at our "big brother" Chelsea and their verticle fall from grace in England to see how poorly this group manage"

Strasbourg are 3 pts off 8/9 place. Where are they supposed to be? They finished 15th last season. 

27 minutes ago, enigma said:

Strasbourg are 3 pts off 8/9 place. Where are they supposed to be? They finished 15th last season. 

Higher up would be my guess.

Today's rumours are saying Pochettino and the board have agreed to put the following players up for sale on January:

 

1. Broja

2. Maatsen.

3. Chalobah

4. Madueke.

 

In addition to this the board also want to sell Gallagher, but Pochettino is trying to convince them not to.

Problem is, if we try to sell people like Madeuke, Mudryk, etc... who were brought in by this lot - they are on insanely long deals. So people will know we're desperate to get rid and will offer peanuts. It was always bound to backfire signing so many of these youngsters to long deals. I can see us being stuck with the majority of them for a long time.

Good luck trying to get our money back let alone making a profit on Madeuke. Once we sold the club grown youth under Roman era ( Chalobah, Gallagher etc), we will be left with the expensive youth Boehly recruited, unless they turn out to be exceptional, not going to get our investment back.

52 minutes ago, icecoolguy22 said:

Good luck trying to get our money back let alone making a profit on Madeuke. Once we sold the club grown youth under Roman era ( Chalobah, Gallagher etc), we will be left with the expensive youth Boehly recruited, unless they turn out to be exceptional, not going to get our investment back.

Yup, fit and proper owners this lot are.

4 hours ago, axman2526 said:

Today's rumours are saying Pochettino and the board have agreed to put the following players up for sale on January:

 

1. Broja

2. Maatsen.

3. Chalobah

4. Madueke.

 

In addition to this the board also want to sell Gallagher, but Pochettino is trying to convince them not to.

If they sell Broja, watch him go on to be twice the player Jackson is. This may already be the case.

6 minutes ago, Scott Harris said:

If they sell Broja, watch him go on to be twice the player Jackson is. This may already be the case.

Yup I would not be surprised by that.

6 hours ago, Scott Harris said:

If they sell Broja, watch him go on to be twice the player Jackson is. This may already be the case.

That's a given. Probably go to the pikeys.

15 hours ago, axman2526 said:

Today's rumours are saying Pochettino and the board have agreed to put the following players up for sale on January:

 

1. Broja

2. Maatsen.

3. Chalobah

4. Madueke.

 

In addition to this the board also want to sell Gallagher, but Pochettino is trying to convince them not to.

I would excpect the first three to be pure profit sales with maybe Madueke out on loan due to the aforementioned long term deal he is on.

Poch can plead all he wants but the club have dug themselves into another FFP catastrophe where we will likely have to sell both Broja and Gallagher. 

42 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Poch can plead all he wants but the club have dug themselves into another FFP catastrophe where we will likely have to sell both Broja and Gallagher. 

Yup, carries on like this for another year or 2 and we might have to sell James.

44 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

Yup, carries on like this for another year or 2 and we might have to sell James.

A year ago I would've said you're overblowing things but this genuine could be a case should things not change. 

Selling Broja is a huge mistake. If they are doing that then they better bring in a ready-made striker on the level of Nkunku because there's no point selling Broja and signing another raw player like Jackson.

😐

 

Its a minimum of 8 plus more seasons before they (Clearlake) can even contemplate selling Chelsea for a huge profit as is their long term plan no doubt.

Drink that in people - EIGHT MORE SEASONS at least under CLEARLAKE/ TODD BULLY Ownership 😱

And some how I don't think there will be little if any at all any learning curve,  just 8 more seasons like the 1 and a 1/3rd we've already experienced. So you can bet your bottom dollar that all the academy players graduates like James and all the promising lads currently at the academy will be sold to counteract the financial calamity that's potentially waiting just over the horizon.

 

On 27/11/2023 at 20:54, axman2526 said:

Today's rumours are saying Pochettino and the board have agreed to put the following players up for sale on January:

 

1. Broja

2. Maatsen.

3. Chalobah

4. Madueke.

 

In addition to this the board also want to sell Gallagher, but Pochettino is trying to convince them not to.

You do have to wonder if they are looking to sell Conor otherwise there’s no reason not to offer him a new contract. 

5 hours ago, JM7 said:

You do have to wonder if they are looking to sell Conor otherwise there’s no reason not to offer him a new contract. 

Certainly could be on the cards, especially if Lavia is back from injury. Considering that Conor is a big asset for FFP because he is homegrown, he is far more likely to be sold than players brought in by Clearlake. Even if he is playing well.

The possibility is that we sell off a lot of the academy talent that has value in the market to balance out all the expensive mistakes made by Clearlake. But that would potentially leave us with a weaker squad, not to mention a squad of players with no connection to the club.

2 pointless loans then. 
 

 

I see that one of my all time favourite players, Pat Nevin, has been relieved of his duties by the club on the media side.

Yet another reason to feel slightly more detached from the club I have supported for 50+ years. These current owners really are a soulless bunch aren't they.

6 minutes ago, Nibs said:

I see that one of my all time favourite players, Pat Nevin, has been relieved of his duties by the club on the media side.

Yet another reason to feel slightly more detached from the club I have supported for 50+ years. These current owners really are a soulless bunch aren't they.

WTF?

18 minutes ago, Backbiter said:

WTF?

Sconnie Blue posted a link to thos higher up on the thread.

53 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

Sconnie Blue posted a link to thos higher up on the thread.

Oh dear. Seems like he questioned their buying strategy. What would he know?

petulant behavior from the owner and the club establishment - if they cant handle criticism when they have won less than 30 points in a year they might aswell F**K themselves..

They have failed with their transfer strategy.. they themselves have sacked their transfer gurus.. Managers have spoken about the number of players and go after the little guy in Nevin.. real classy. 

1 hour ago, Jangz said:

petulant behavior from the owner and the club establishment - if they cant handle criticism when they have won less than 30 points in a year they might as well F**K themselves..

They have failed with their transfer strategy.. they themselves have sacked their transfer gurus.. Managers have spoken about the number of players and go after the little guy in Nevin.. real classy. 

I don't think we had any transfer gurus to sack to be honest. Our transfer acquisitions record in the last few years of Roman's tenure was awful, and a major contributing factor of where we find ourselves now.

The finger will start pointing at Winstanley and Stewart soon though ... if it isn't already !