10 hours ago, Sunspear_88 said:

I'm still wondering what happened between them and Tuchel. Still no explanations. Boehly said that the way the club was being run before was not good, well, HELLO?! Wtf is this?! 

I think i remember Boehly being quoted as saying something like  Tuchel didnt share their vision for the future.

6 hours ago, alvarezCFC said:

So let's make summary of what the Circus FC have done in just 3 years:

Spent over a Billion (mostly on players who will never play for us or are just utter sh*t)

4 coaches/Yes men

Changed the whole staff at the club (inc. the medical department and still had one of the worst injury crisis in football history ever!)

Mistreated players like Chilwell, Chalabolah, Gallagher etc.

ZERO top4 finishes

2 Seasons of no shirt sponsor

Ticket f**king touting from one of the owner! (Vivid Seats)

Only club in EPL with 2 SD-s/Clowns

Assembled the team with no logic (like 12 number two goalies / not buying any players for number 9 / hoarding the wings etc.)

Giving out long super long contracts to everyone (Potter and Mudryk ones are my favorites)

Scored a record-low 38 goals across the entire season in 23/24

Made FC have a new meaning...Financial club and even in that we suck!

 

Feel free to add to the list! I know there's loads of more but I'm just so fed up with this utter crap and the more I wrote the more the depression sank in!

 Alas i think they view it differently,

Theyve been in place for a few years now. They have put in their structures , the value to the shareholders is growing and we are currently sitting 4th in the Premier League.

The value of the club is being touted as doubling within 10 years in some financial circles.

We have at least one valuable asset in Cole Palmer who we have listed at 165m available.

Also an interesting project to further enhance the value of the club - stadium development. 

 

This is where I miss Roman, Maresca would have been sacked this morning after that shambles

13 hours ago, timetowaste said:

A lot of you will disagree but what's really pissing me off is we are a manager and transfer window away from becoming a really good team, unfortunately, I don't trust the owners and the SDs to make the correct decisions.

Even if this were the case, because of the calamitous financial decisions made so far, in order to build a fully functioning and challenging side it would take numerous windows and creative accounting with PSR to achieve including cashing in on the few positive assets to fund it.

For example, realistically for us to generate sufficient cash to build a spine in the summer we would probably have to cash in on Palmer and Colwill as the only players tgatvare saleable and would raise sufficient profit to allow us to trade. Of course selling Palmer means we lose the only credible threat that this group offer.

What a shambles.

35 minutes ago, timetowaste said:

This is where I miss Roman, Maresca would have been sacked this morning after that shambles

I suspect one of Flick, Nagelsmann or Enrique would have been appointed instead of this glove puppet in the first place.

1 hour ago, OneTommyLangley said:

I think i remember Boehly being quoted as saying something like  Tuchel didnt share their vision for the future.

He's not the only fking one. I despise everything these w*nkers stand for.

I think the truth of the matter is, we are no longer a big club, especially domestically. We haven't won the league since 16/17. We have won 2 league titles in 15 seasons. That is terrible for a supposed 'big club.' Since Conte won the league we never strengthened effectively. Sure, we may have won a CL trophy, but cup competitions are easier to win than the PL because there is some luck involved and kind draws. Man City ownership did it the right way. Brought in the right coach, backed him with good players, had a solid structure in place, and look at what they have gone on to do since Conte won the PL with us. We should have been a dominant force in English football over the past 10 seasons, but we fell off massively. 

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@SydneyChelsea @terraloon

Is there any possibility, or hope I’d rather say, that this continuous deterioration would cause Clearlake investors to pull their money which forces them to sell majority to Boehly?  

3 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

@SydneyChelsea @terraloon

Is there any possibility, or hope I’d rather say, that this continuous deterioration would cause Clearlake investors to pull their money which forces them to sell majority to Boehly?  

Initial investors will already have recieved a decent return on their investment. They will have set up continuation fund packaged with the stripped assets (Womens team, Cobham, Stoll, Hotel) and invited new investors to invest and then use that money to pay initial investors their yearly return.

3 minutes ago, OriginalS said:

Initial investors will already have recieved a decent return on their investment. They will have set up continuation fund packaged with the stripped assets (Womens team, Cobham, Stoll, Hotel) and invited new investors to invest and then use that money to pay initial investors their yearly return.

So in essence, it was nice while it lasted. 

10 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

So in essence, it was nice while it lasted. 

Yes, they are fine. We aren't.

2 hours ago, WhiteWall said:

Even if this were the case, because of the calamitous financial decisions made so far, in order to build a fully functioning and challenging side it would take numerous windows and creative accounting with PSR to achieve including cashing in on the few positive assets to fund it.

For example, realistically for us to generate sufficient cash to build a spine in the summer we would probably have to cash in on Palmer and Colwill as the only players tgatvare saleable and would raise sufficient profit to allow us to trade. Of course selling Palmer means we lose the only credible threat that this group offer.

What a shambles.

I think it could be done within a window, if the board got their head out of their arse decided f**k it, we need to recruit 3 or 4 top players, we could challenge for the league next season without selling any player we can't afford to lose, we could recoup around 150m+ with sales of Madueke, Felix, Disasi, Carney, Kepa and Chilwell.

24 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

So in essence, it was nice while it lasted. 

Indeed. That is how it is until we, as a fanbase, stop focusing on players, managers, sporting directors and all the PR sh*tstorm that comes are way, and unite against the one true cause of this. The ownership.

They do not require us to be anything more than PL nothings in order to make money for their investors, so they can Milk us for years upon decades. 

We have to make things ugly for them, only way we go back to have a football club rather than a financial circus.

38 minutes ago, OriginalS said:

Initial investors will already have recieved a decent return on their investment. They will have set up continuation fund packaged with the stripped assets (Womens team, Cobham, Stoll, Hotel) and invited new investors to invest and then use that money to pay initial investors their yearly return.

Wait.

After having my coffee and actually re-reading this, are you suggesting its a pyramid scheme...?

We are not seeing a major trophy for another 10 years in my opinion if these idiots continue down this path.

O how I miss Marina and Michael right now because they had misses but they damm sure also recruited proven talent.

Followed this club for nearly 60yrs, throughout all that time the ups and downs, the greatest moments in my life, winning the FA Cup in 71, etc. relegation, promotion, getting banned for away games, the collection buckets, the electric fence, endless hours of queuing up for tickets, the pure euphoria of going to Highbury, white Harte lane, Old Trafford, etc. praying for a result, bunking the trains, being posh and paying a few extra shillings to go into the benches (taking the free newspaper to sit on) but only to get nearer the north stand, etc. etc. Track forward a bit and now I f**king hate the way this club has been f**ked , royally f**ked. 
like many Chelsea fans, myself, family and friends really have had enough. Mainly because we can’t see how this bunch of c**ts can or even want to sort it out. Such a sad f**king state of affairs, and can’t really see it getting any better. But as the c**ts are paying themselves millions a year why would they. 
I’m rapidly losing all interest in this f**ked up club. So f**king sad. 

10 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Wait.

After having my coffee and actually re-reading this, are you suggesting its a pyramid scheme...?

There are clear similarities with a ponzi-scheme yes (a point made by many previously*) but for now its legal.

But as soon as I heard about the asset stripping I knew exactly what was going on.

*

It's plenty bad on the surface at this football club but scratch a little deeper and its even worse.

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2 minutes ago, OriginalS said:

There are clear similarities with a ponzi-scheme yes (a point made by many previously*) but for now its legal.

But as soon as I heard about the asset stripping I knew exactly what was going on.

*

It's plenty bad on the surface at this football club but scratch a little deeper and its even worse.

Afraid I need more coffee it seems as I meant to type Ponzi scheme. 

39 minutes ago, timetowaste said:

I think it could be done within a window, if the board got their head out of their arse decided f**k it, we need to recruit 3 or 4 top players, we could challenge for the league next season without selling any player we can't afford to lose, we could recoup around 150m+ with sales of Madueke, Felix, Disasi, Carney, Kepa and Chilwell.

I like the optimism, but, we have pretty much exhausted the Cobham Graduates along the lines of gallagher et all... We now have speculative purchases for future gain, written off hundreds of millions on players no longer playing for us and im not sure what china is left to sell... Oh, except for the ground we play in... And those Yank tards are probably looking at all ways to take it from us. f**k them... Get them out before they bankrupt us. Disaster capitalism meets CFC... Scum... money hungry scum.

11 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Afraid I need more coffee it seems as I meant to type Ponzi scheme. 

Anytime you read new investor cash being used to pay existing investors, its pretty much a ponzi, like BTC... I wonder when the sum in charge launch NFT's and other digital assets designed at ripping money from you. 

Can we stop the Yankie twats coming to the ground, ensure theyre not welcome? 

23 minutes ago, bluetrooper said:

Can we stop the Yankie twats coming to the ground, ensure theyre not welcome? 

I've noticed that more and more Chelsea's fan podcasts are focusing on the owners now . I haven't yet heard of any organised protests, but that's what's needed.

 

46 minutes ago, Kev56 said:

Followed this club for nearly 60yrs, throughout all that time the ups and downs, the greatest moments in my life, winning the FA Cup in 71, etc. relegation, promotion, getting banned for away games, the collection buckets, the electric fence, endless hours of queuing up for tickets, the pure euphoria of going to Highbury, white Harte lane, Old Trafford, etc. praying for a result, bunking the trains, being posh and paying a few extra shillings to go into the benches (taking the free newspaper to sit on) but only to get nearer the north stand, etc. etc. Track forward a bit and now I f**king hate the way this club has been f**ked , royally f**ked. 
like many Chelsea fans, myself, family and friends really have had enough. Mainly because we can’t see how this bunch of c**ts can or even want to sort it out. Such a sad f**king state of affairs, and can’t really see it getting any better. But as the c**ts are paying themselves millions a year why would they. 
I’m rapidly losing all interest in this f**ked up club. So f**king sad. 

Need fans like you fighting on the front lines mate.

Unlike the Glazers these lot are major cooperations, so their public image and confidence of shareholders matter. 

The more I think about the way they are going about with the club the more I want to call them c**ts. There should be a massive banner calling them so next home game. I somehow envy other clubs’ fans with their banners, Leicester had one today, Palace were showing banners in their home games, many German teams fans, even ManU fans showed some guts in the past seasons. It’s shameful how they are stripping off this club and how they are installing their mediocrity.

2 minutes ago, RMH said:

The more I think about the way they are going about with the club the more I want to call them c**ts. There should be a massive banner calling them so next home game. I somehow envy other clubs’ fans with their banners, Leicester had one today, Palace were showing banners in their home games, many German teams fans, even ManU fans showed some guts in the past seasons. It’s shameful how they are stripping off this club and how they are installing their mediocrity.

They won't allow such banners in the Bridge. If one did sneak in they would quickly get it removed.

Biggest problem is we remain divided. Too many of our fans either are not willing to see, or have seen and are being blindly stubborn not to admit they are wrong, about this ownership.

Not to dig anyone out but we still have posts after posts about how more signings, a different manager, different SDs would see us become a title contender.

It's just nonsense. A clubs direction comes from the top down.