Wow.

Not sure how familiar some of you are in the HBO series “Successor”, but there’s a scene where a guy who works for a private equity firm is talking to the youngest son and he says this.

“I’m tight with this agent in Spain. I buy a club and he loans me 9 sh*t hot players. We climb the ladder. Take a Champions League space. UEFA follows through and goes full Super League. I flip the club and walk away.”

Season 2, episode 8.

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2 hours ago, OneTommyLangley said:

I think the plan is fine - buy young players then eventually sell them on for good/ very good profit.

I also think it is normal for shareholders to want to make (large) profits.

The problem for supporters is when they buy duds or overpay for players we end up with an unbalanced squad, with relatively poor team performance. Also the manager will eventually get sacked.

The shareholders meanwhile have to make do with smallish profit as a consequence.

IF however the buying of players was better in terms of quality and value then the team/squad would fair better and the shareholders would have the opportunity to earn large profits, due to player value increasing rather than stagnating at best.

Boehly and Co. putting in 1,5 billion on players is great from where im sitting.

The selection by the SD's is dreadful and will be costing the shareholders dearly.

I support the plan and the owners and the manager who is in the job, but i desperately want to see a better calibre of Sporting director.

Im aware that if we sell all our Cole Palmers we will never get to the top as a club but i believe our shareholders/owners are ( hopefully ) too greedy to cash in quickly on every gem but will hold on for a huge price. This can be seen by Palmers price being set at 150 - 160 million.

Blue Co. appear to be continuing to put in plenty to the transfer kitty, only FFP PSR will slow them. just wish it was spent more wisely

BLUE Co. IN SD's OUT. please.

Protesting to get the shareholders/Owners out is a strange one for me - who would leave if they were making potentially good profits? I wouldnt if i were an investor.

We can only spend the club's income on transfers and wages, it can't come from anywhere else. The plan to extract wealth from our football club is probably working just fine for our investors.

As a Chelsea fan it is absolutely not fine, we support the football club and our football team. They don't give a f**k about how we feel.

23 hours ago, timetowaste said:

Feel a bit for Boehly, he's getting the majority of the stick at the protest today when he's a minority shareholder, the anger should be directed at Clearlake and Eghbali

Todd is responsible for just one thing.

Bringing ClearLake on board at the last minute in his bid to buy us. Daft f**ker

For a seat behind the away dugout in the East Stand lower. A seat for spurs game is £6,000 !

You do get a meal and a programm and analysis of the game from some dude

39 minutes ago, The Rising Sun said:

For a seat behind the away dugout in the East Stand lower. A seat for spurs game is £6,000 !

You do get a meal and a programm and analysis of the game from some dude

This angers me.... Ticket touts are scum.

i think i read somewhere the Liverpool game was £12,500 🙄

21 hours ago, The Rising Sun said:

What is the plan ?

-To increase the size of the stadium (takes about 10 years + payments)

-Be one of the most competitive sides in Europe. We are not miles behind but I 'd say 5-10 years to be consistently that.

-Be profitable. Venture capitalists own us. That is their job.

To be competitive sides they have decided to hire top level sporting directors (under review) who have worked under the strategy to buy players BEFORE their price is at its peak eg. Young. We've done this under the SD's with pretty good results. I think most of the players they have bought have been assests for the first team, the multi-club or as sellable assets. Remember most of buys before they were hired have not worked as well. Nkunku is a top player but not fitting to our system. He wasn't hired by the SD's.

I think we have also performed under Poch and Enzo to the expected level at this point of the plan. I think they can expect us to be somewhere between 3rd to 9th with the young squad and competition in the Prem.

We've done that under Poch and probably under Enzo as well. Naturally everyone in the club wants to see us be 3rd rather than 9th and want this plan to take closer to 5 years rather than 10th.

In 5 years Enzo Fernandez is 28-29 which is the age Rodri is at who just won the Ballon dor. Palmer, Caicedo, Jackson, Gusto are not even that.

It is more than probable that in 5 years 30-50% of them are not at Chelsea but hopefully they are at a great level and we have made profit over the sales. Tougher on Enzo and Caicedo but not that hard with Palmer.

What we need to do as fans to help is to realize this is the new norm and root for the players that wear the shirt. If you want of course. You can go on living in the past. Your choice.

Anyway this is how I see it.

3 hours ago, evissy said:

-To increase the size of the stadium (takes about 10 years + payments)

-Be one of the most competitive sides in Europe. We are not miles behind but I 'd say 5-10 years to be consistently that.

-Be profitable. Venture capitalists own us. That is their job.

To be competitive sides they have decided to hire top level sporting directors (under review) who have worked under the strategy to buy players BEFORE their price is at its peak eg. Young. We've done this under the SD's with pretty good results. I think most of the players they have bought have been assests for the first team, the multi-club or as sellable assets. Remember most of buys before they were hired have not worked as well. Nkunku is a top player but not fitting to our system. He wasn't hired by the SD's.

I think we have also performed under Poch and Enzo to the expected level at this point of the plan. I think they can expect us to be somewhere between 3rd to 9th with the young squad and competition in the Prem.

We've done that under Poch and probably under Enzo as well. Naturally everyone in the club wants to see us be 3rd rather than 9th and want this plan to take closer to 5 years rather than 10th.

In 5 years Enzo Fernandez is 28-29 which is the age Rodri is at who just won the Ballon dor. Palmer, Caicedo, Jackson, Gusto are not even that.

It is more than probable that in 5 years 30-50% of them are not at Chelsea but hopefully they are at a great level and we have made profit over the sales. Tougher on Enzo and Caicedo but not that hard with Palmer.

What we need to do as fans to help is to realize this is the new norm and root for the players that wear the shirt. If you want of course. You can go on living in the past. Your choice.

Anyway this is how I see it.

Thank you.

I disagree with nearly everything. I'll just say one thing....you say they have appointed ",top level sporting directors" . Both our sporting directors were definitely NOT top level appointments..

I'm not living in the past as you suggest, I'm living in the present, YOU are living in an imagined future where the gamble with our football club actually works out perfectly.

4 hours ago, evissy said:

-To increase the size of the stadium (takes about 10 years + payments)

-Be one of the most competitive sides in Europe. We are not miles behind but I 'd say 5-10 years to be consistently that.

-Be profitable. Venture capitalists own us. That is their job.

To be competitive sides they have decided to hire top level sporting directors (under review) who have worked under the strategy to buy players BEFORE their price is at its peak eg. Young. We've done this under the SD's with pretty good results. I think most of the players they have bought have been assests for the first team, the multi-club or as sellable assets. Remember most of buys before they were hired have not worked as well. Nkunku is a top player but not fitting to our system. He wasn't hired by the SD's.

I think we have also performed under Poch and Enzo to the expected level at this point of the plan. I think they can expect us to be somewhere between 3rd to 9th with the young squad and competition in the Prem.

We've done that under Poch and probably under Enzo as well. Naturally everyone in the club wants to see us be 3rd rather than 9th and want this plan to take closer to 5 years rather than 10th.

In 5 years Enzo Fernandez is 28-29 which is the age Rodri is at who just won the Ballon dor. Palmer, Caicedo, Jackson, Gusto are not even that.

It is more than probable that in 5 years 30-50% of them are not at Chelsea but hopefully they are at a great level and we have made profit over the sales. Tougher on Enzo and Caicedo but not that hard with Palmer.

What we need to do as fans to help is to realize this is the new norm and root for the players that wear the shirt. If you want of course. You can go on living in the past. Your choice.

Anyway this is how I see it.

We won the Champions League the season before we were purchased. We haven't qualified for the competition since. We were one of the most competitive sides in Europe and now you're saying we should wait another 5-10 years (on top of the 3 disappointing ones we've already endured) to get back to where we were before this ownership came in? Pretty easy to understand why people might be upset about that proposition isn't it?

Also, "supporting the players who wear the shirt" doesn't mean supporting the ownership, directors, and yes man manager.

21 hours ago, bluetrooper said:

This angers me.... Ticket touts are scum.

These aren’t touts. This is Chelsea’s dugout club!!! Dippers and United games are £10,500!!

Tickets taken from lower tier family section for large profit

4 hours ago, evissy said:

To be competitive sides they have decided to hire top level sporting directors (under review) who have worked under the strategy to buy players BEFORE their price is at its peak eg. Young. We've done this under the SD's with pretty good results. I think most of the players they have bought have been assests for the first team, the multi-club or as sellable assets. Remember most of buys before they were hired have not worked as well. Nkunku is a top player but not fitting to our system. He wasn't hired by the SD's.

That may be the plan on paper, but what we are seeing in practise is way off the mark.

We are buying young players at incredibly inflated prices, most of whom will never even sit on the bench regularly. D. Fofana, Deivid, Kellyman, Wiley, Amougou, Anselmino are a few examples.

Players are being discarded just to make space for new signings that have virtually no hope of becoming main fixtures at the club. Petrovic was replaced by Jorgensen for no reason whatsoever. Carney was exiled for no reason whatsoever. You can also bet that Guiu is finished as a Chelsea player. Next summer we'll definitely sign another 19 year old striker and Guiu will suffer the same fate as D. Fofana and Deivid.

And that's without mentioning the signing of "established" players like KDH and Felix and immediately trying to flog them.

We were concerned as fans when Roman was stripped of the ownership that the new owners wouldn't spend money on the club. My biggest fear now is them continuing to spend money on this absurd "model".

An overlooked part of their new "model" is how much BlueCo are blowing on wages. I think this is going well under the radar as all the narrative is about wages at the bottom line on the accounts, and apparently a new "maximum" of £150K a week that we will not go above.

However, they are paying top dollar vs previous contracts which all helps make a sale impossible for players who don't make the right performance grade, as very few clubs can match or get near the wages we've given them, and seeing as they are all very long contacts it means we are basically stuck with them, or reduced to loaning them out in lieu of a permanent sale.

A few examples :

• Carney was on £2K a week at Villa (as per Capology), and BlueCo gave him £100K a week.

• KDH £20K a week at Leicester, and now £80K

• Cucurella £50K a week at Brighton and now £175K.

• Badiashile £9K a week at Monaco and now £90K

• Disasi £11.6K a week at Monaco and now £80K

• Slonina £2K a week at Chicago Fire and now £40K

• Tosin £40K a week at Fulham and now £120K.

etc etc (I can go on ... and on ... and on ... it's pretty much every transfer they have done LOL)

As business people go I'd like to deal with BlueCo every day of the week, as they are clearly absolutely terrible at negotiation :-)

Edited February 27, 20251 yr by Sexyfootball

Todd is due to spin more PR, err I mean talk, at a "business of football" conference tonight.

Starting at the 9th minute mark , Younes analyzes what Todd spoke about:

On 26/02/2025 at 19:05, evissy said:

I feel like I am more in tune with the directors of the club than the fans.

No you aren't. Most of what you write is parroted PR bullsh*t and you staunchly ignore any evidence that calls it out.

9 hours ago, evissy said:

-To increase the size of the stadium (takes about 10 years + payments)

-Be one of the most competitive sides in Europe. We are not miles behind but I 'd say 5-10 years to be consistently that.

-Be profitable. Venture capitalists own us. That is their job.

To be competitive sides they have decided to hire top level sporting directors (under review) who have worked under the strategy to buy players BEFORE their price is at its peak eg. Young. We've done this under the SD's with pretty good results. I think most of the players they have bought have been assests for the first team, the multi-club or as sellable assets. Remember most of buys before they were hired have not worked as well. Nkunku is a top player but not fitting to our system. He wasn't hired by the SD's.

I think we have also performed under Poch and Enzo to the expected level at this point of the plan. I think they can expect us to be somewhere between 3rd to 9th with the young squad and competition in the Prem.

We've done that under Poch and probably under Enzo as well. Naturally everyone in the club wants to see us be 3rd rather than 9th and want this plan to take closer to 5 years rather than 10th.

In 5 years Enzo Fernandez is 28-29 which is the age Rodri is at who just won the Ballon dor. Palmer, Caicedo, Jackson, Gusto are not even that.

It is more than probable that in 5 years 30-50% of them are not at Chelsea but hopefully they are at a great level and we have made profit over the sales. Tougher on Enzo and Caicedo but not that hard with Palmer.

What we need to do as fans to help is to realize this is the new norm and root for the players that wear the shirt. If you want of course. You can go on living in the past. Your choice.

Anyway this is how I see it.

So the new plan is exactly the same as the old plan under Granovskaia, yet you keep insisting it is something new and fresh.

Edited February 27, 20251 yr by SydneyChelsea

Remember when Boehly had long hair and that fire in his eyes! a real zest for life; the guy looks drained and defeated these days. Became a cuck to the investors he chose to get into bed with, just playing the fall guy now.

24 minutes ago, SydneyChelsea said:

No you aren't. Most of what you write is parroted PR bullsh*t and you staunchly ignore any evidence that calls it out.

So the new plan is exactly the same as the old plan under Granovskaia, yet you keep insisting it is something new and fresh.

I was literally about to write this.

What's this revisionism that we did not have a plan and a young squad.

Mount, Havertz, Pulisic, Werner, Chillwell, Gilmour, Tammy, Christensen, Zouma, Mendy, James, CHO, Conor, Chalobah and I probably missed more but they are all under 25.

On paper the potential of those players is just the same as what we have now, We could argue all day and say if they were good enough but this team had a mixed of experience and youth. When Lukaku signed for us there was real hope we were about to compete with City and Liverpool.

We have spent over a billion quid and signed over 40 players and we are in the same situation as we was before but with less experience and no champions league football.

All they had to do is come in and keep Marina on with Petr for a few seasons to keep us at the level that we were. Instead they came in and thought they knew best and decided to turn us into some souless business venture.

It's been downhill slope ever since they sacked Tuchel.

7 hours ago, Sexyfootball said:

An overlooked part of their new "model" is how much BlueCo are blowing on wages. I think this is going well under the radar as all the narrative is about wages at the bottom line on the accounts, and apparently a new "maximum" of £150K a week that we will not go above.

However, they are paying top dollar vs previous contracts which all helps make a sale impossible for players who don't make the right performance grade, as very few clubs can match or get near the wages we've given them, and seeing as they are all very long contacts it means we are basically stuck with them, or reduced to loaning them out in lieu of a permanent sale.

A few examples :

• Carney was on £2K a week at Villa (as per Capology), and BlueCo gave him £100K a week.

• KDH £20K a week at Leicester, and now £80K

• Cucurella £50K a week at Brighton and now £175K.

• Badiashile £9K a week at Monaco and now £90K

• Disasi £11.6K a week at Monaco and now £80K

• Slonina £2K a week at Chicago Fire and now £40K

• Tosin £40K a week at Fulham and now £120K.

etc etc (I can go on ... and on ... and on ... it's pretty much every transfer they have done LOL)

As business people go I'd like to deal with BlueCo every day of the week, as they are clearly absolutely terrible at negotiation :-)

Haaland earn around 1m/week (+bonus) in his old contract. I don't think that 150k cap is true.

Imo under Roman we used to pay the higher end on salary and now we are trying to pay lower end of top team

8 hours ago, cfr95 said:

and yes man manager

Maresca as football coach I have little problem with. Other than his lack of sub n his squad usage he is fine.

But saying that Sterling was sold because he doesn't fit what he want from his winger football, Chalobah was loaned out because of football reason annoy me

Another good look at what nonsense Todd spoutted:

7 hours ago, SydneyChelsea said:

No you aren't. Most of what you write is parroted PR bullsh*t and you staunchly ignore any evidence that calls it out.

So the new plan is exactly the same as the old plan under Granovskaia, yet you keep insisting it is something new and fresh.

Please elaborate.