Poch is letting the 'dirty laundry out', a sign that's either he's definitely gone, or he knew he can't be sacked. Sacking Poch alone won't do much for the team, after all we already sacked 2 in a season and there was not even a new manager bounce. Signing proven player? One could only judge after we get a few proven players in, a speculation about what we could do is hardly news , let alone breaking news.

8 hours ago, JM7 said:

There was rumours that Vivell was sidelined by Stewart and Winstantley. Felt that there was a power grab which he lost. 

As I understand it he got marginalised by the other two, and basically said sod this and got out of there. Leaving us with these two clowns.

On 24/04/2024 at 17:50, axman2526 said:

Good video about how control functions within the ownership and comments from Todd and Eghbali:

 

 

 

Just watched this again, f**k me, they really have ripped the heart out of this football club.

Nothing new in that video fir me, just confirms what I’ve said all along. Palmer will be out the door before a trophy comes in. Depressing but not as much as the Villa score will be later. 

Well, watching our game and Brighton v Citeh this week ,you've got to admit that at great financial cost our owners have finally got what they wanted.

They've actually turned us into Brighton.

On 28/04/2024 at 00:57, The Rising Sun said:

Well, watching our game and Brighton v Citeh this week ,you've got to admit that at great financial cost our owners have finally got what they wanted.

They've actually turned us into Brighton.

Now lets sit and watch as they go all out guns blazing to sign De Zerbi next season.

4 hours ago, Girish said:

Now lets sit and watch as they go all out guns blazing to sign De Zerbi next season.

No idea why. He got a well tuned Brighton team playing well. Then when they lose a couple of their players they revert to being a mid table side. 

There's a lot of managers id rather hire. 

2 hours ago, bisright1 said:

No idea why. He got a well tuned Brighton team playing well. Then when they lose a couple of their players they revert to being a mid table side. 

There's a lot of managers id rather hire. 

Who? And are they available? Would they want to come to this f**ked us mess other than for a big pay off?

Yes I am sure managers only want to come here for the big pay off and don't have any worries of jeopardizing their managerial CV if it doesn't work out. Potter and Poch will potentially never get a big move again. 

49 minutes ago, Kev56 said:

Who? And are they available? Would they want to come to this f**ked us mess other than for a big pay off?

If we are planning to replace Poch, we are not being linked with any inspiring candidates at present. Says it all really.

So, the PL clubs voted for a spending cap today https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/2024/04/29/premier-league-spending-cap-vote

Apparently we abstained, United, City and Villa were against and all other PL clubs for. Maybe this explains why Clearlake went wild in their three first transfer windows?

17 minutes ago, forbzy said:

If we are planning to replace Poch, we are not being linked with any inspiring candidates at present. Says it all really.

Who would you say would be 3 inspiring candidates?

11 minutes ago, timetowaste said:

Who would you say would be 3 inspiring candidates?

Certainly has to be Amorim, Flick, and Motta. 

13 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Certainly has to be Amorim, Flick, and Motta. 

I'd almost rather Danny rohl than Flick

I'm not entirely serious, but I almost am 

21 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Certainly has to be Amorim, Flick, and Motta. 

Amorim is someone we've been linked to, he'd be my top pick. Flick yeah I'm still not sure about, would like to see him at another club first given his only managerial success was at Bayern for a season and a half during covid. Motta seems Juve bound so he's out.

There is genuinely a shortage of 'inspiring' candidates to be honest, they're either unproven or we've already had them (Tuchel, Conte, Jose)

26 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Certainly has to be Amorim, Flick, and Motta. 

Inzaghi would be my pick - but I doubt we’d be able to get him

1 hour ago, timetowaste said:

Who would you say would be 3 inspiring candidates?

To be honest there aren't many at present that I think would do well with our 'project'. Arne Slot would have been an interesting choice, but has already committed to Liverpool. Amorim also, although he has been linked with a move to West Ham in the last few weeks. Iraola at Bournemouth would be an interesting one I think. He has done a fantastic job there in a short time with limited resources. Different expectation levels perhaps, but he'd be worth a look I think.

There are of course other good managers out there but I doubt they would be considered with the current board. Anybody selected would have to be willing to work with the current Directors of Football, and the strategy that has brought about this young, inexperienced squad.

1 hour ago, AndyDowsleftflank said:

So, the PL clubs voted for a spending cap today https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/2024/04/29/premier-league-spending-cap-vote

Apparently we abstained, United, City and Villa were against and all other PL clubs for. Maybe this explains why Clearlake went wild in their three first transfer windows?

Clearlake certainly went wild and signed who ? We would've understood had they gone after world class players at a premium but instead they signed a bunch of teenagers and average young players at inflated prices. Instead of thoughtfully building a team to compete for the title, they've made a hopeful punt by assembling a confusing array of players most of whom didn't actually show much quality even before they were signed. 

8 minutes ago, Nick05 said:

Clearlake certainly went wild and signed who ? We would've understood had they gone after world class players at a premium but instead they signed a bunch of teenagers and average young players at inflated prices. Instead of thoughtfully building a team to compete for the title, they've made a hopeful punt by assembling a confusing array of players most of whom didn't actually show much quality even before they were signed. 

Think the idea, idea being the key word, would have been to assemble a squad of highly talented youngsters that have us competing for the next decade, or provide a decent fee for selling on. 
 

What we appear to have is a little worrying. Next season will be quite telling.

Looks like we are one of the only clubs who wouldn't have been compliant had the spending cap been in place last season, which is hardly suprising. 

Saying that though, and without any knowledge or expertise of how it will playout, I wonder if a shift to this cap may help us make up for the mistakes of the last few seasons of FFP mess. 

Us abstaining from the vote would potentially suggest otherwise but interesting either way. Hopefully one of the few decent chelsea focussed journo's puts something together soon on how we can expect it to go.

1 minute ago, Niall1905 said:

Looks like we are one of the only clubs who wouldn't have been compliant had the spending cap been in place last season, which is hardly suprising. 

Saying that though, and without any knowledge or expertise of how it will playout, I wonder if a shift to this cap may help us make up for the mistakes of the last few seasons of FFP mess. 

Us abstaining from the vote would potentially suggest otherwise but interesting either way. Hopefully one of the few decent chelsea focussed journo's puts something together soon on how we can expect it to go.

I think it potentially sets a bad precedent for owners to take the 'left over' money out of the club. 

I know our situation is different given there is a clause that these owners can't take money out of the club for 10 years, but other clubs aren't so lucky. The present numbers of foreign owners would be dwarfed if clubs were generating £200 million of 'spare' cash every year. There'd be a stampede of greedy billionaires looking to invest £3 billion on clubs that were guaranteeing an 8% return every year, especially with the money the Premier League is now generating. 

 

50 minutes ago, Nick05 said:

Clearlake certainly went wild and signed who ? We would've understood had they gone after world class players at a premium but instead they signed a bunch of teenagers and average young players at inflated prices. Instead of thoughtfully building a team to compete for the title, they've made a hopeful punt by assembling a confusing array of players most of whom didn't actually show much quality even before they were signed. 

Absolutely, not saying they definetly went about it the right way and that the signings have all been brilliant. But if you squint, there might be some reason to why they chose to rush the restructuring of the squad and top it off with a lot of youth signings - before something like this came along. We can’t fully know the consequences yet, but it makes sense that a restructure would have been harder to do after the spending cap is implemented 

6 minutes ago, AndyDowsleftflank said:

Absolutely, not saying they definetly went about it the right way and that the signings have all been brilliant. But if you squint, there might be some reason to why they chose to rush the restructuring of the squad and top it off with a lot of youth signings - before something like this came along. We can’t fully know the consequences yet, but it makes sense that a restructure would have been harder to do after the spending cap is implemented 

We would've been blessed if the spending cap was implemented earlier. It would've forced the owners to first settle themselves and also evaluate players thoroughly before signing. There is essentially no structure to this "restructuring".

11 minutes ago, Nick05 said:

We would've been blessed if the spending cap was implemented earlier. It would've forced the owners to first settle themselves and also evaluate players thoroughly before signing. There is essentially no structure to this "restructuring".

But there's an obvious structure in what they're trying to do. Whether you think it's the right one is a different matter.

11 minutes ago, Nick05 said:

We would've been blessed if the spending cap was implemented earlier. It would've forced the owners to first settle themselves and also evaluate players thoroughly before signing. There is essentially no structure to this "restructuring".

Sure, just saying this might be part of the reason why they chose to do it this way.