22 hours ago, mojo said:

sorry, this goes here

Sunday was wonderful. A great achievement and all involved deserve their flowers for it.

It will take years of sustained success/competing with the best for the top prizes for me to change my opinion on the ownership though.

Hopefully it happens and I can eat a shop worth of humble pie as that would mean they have built something very special.

31 minutes ago, dermott said:

Needed the funds.

He should have borrowed it !! As it is the owners are borrowing millions upon millions anyway.

1 hour ago, dermott said:

Needed the funds.

1 hour ago, dermott said:

Needed the funds.

1 hour ago, axman2526 said:

Sunday was wonderful. A great achievement and all involved deserve their flowers for it.

It will take years of sustained success/competing with the best for the top prizes for me to change my opinion on the ownership though.

Hopefully it happens and I can eat a shop worth of humble pie as that would mean they have built something very special.

I'm delighted with that game. Outstanding..But unfortunately very very rare over their ownership. Like you, nothing would please me more than for them to succeed.and to profit from their investment. 😂🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆

45 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

Sunday was wonderful. A great achievement and all involved deserve their flowers for it.

It will take years of sustained success/competing with the best for the top prizes for me to change my opinion on the ownership though.

Hopefully it happens and I can eat a shop worth of humble pie as that would mean they have built something very special.

For me it’s not only about success on the pitch, which I welcome, but more about the direction that the owners are taking the Club to. Massive purchase of young players for no reason that end up being used as pure trading goods; how they treat the fans, especially match going fans; stop making it more and more difficult for home fans to get tickets because they’re reducing the allocated tickets to them; being involved in the sale of tickets through websites alien to the club for their own benefit; stop trying to convince all European football that they know how to do things better, because it’s not true. I’ve got to the point that watching Boehly the other night celebrating after the final made me cringe. They need to change a few things in the direction they’ve taken to gain me back.

Now this is interesting if true

Football London

Chelsea set for huge cash boost when new shirt sponsorshi...

Chelsea have reportedly received a shirt sponsor boost after winning this summer's Club World Cup with a 3-0 victory over PSG

1 hour ago, terraloon said:

Now this is interesting if true

Football London

Chelsea set for huge cash boost when new shirt sponsorshi...

Chelsea have reportedly received a shirt sponsor boost after winning this summer's Club World Cup with a 3-0 victory over PSG

NOTHING of Substance in that article... No links no hints just waffle. Tsk.

9 hours ago, terraloon said:

Now this is interesting if true

Will be interesting to see what (if anything) develops. People might be confusing shirt sponsorship deals with the much more lucrative kit manufacturer deals.

Conveniently, our kit deal with Nike should expire in 2027, while we are still CWC champions and hopefully after a few trophies, so we are in prime position to negotiate a good one there.

However, shirt sponsorships are another matter. The current biggest kit sponsorship is Etihad-City's reported 100m/year, which of course is a totally legitimate and not-in-any-way inflated sponsorship deal. Most are around 40-60m.

Not sure why this acronym FOS created so much negativity among fans.

16 minutes ago, SydneyChelsea said:

Will be interesting to see what (if anything) develops. People might be confusing shirt sponsorship deals with the much more lucrative kit manufacturer deals.

Conveniently, our kit deal with Nike should expire in 2027, while we are still CWC champions and hopefully after a few trophies, so we are in prime position to negotiate a good one there.

However, shirt sponsorships are another matter. The current biggest kit sponsorship is Etihad-City's reported 100m/year, which of course is a totally legitimate and not-in-any-way inflated sponsorship deal. Most are around 40-60m.

It’s difficult to gain a true perspective in terms of the FOS but there are snippets out there which suggest:

1) The I A sponsor in 23/24 matched the offers save 1 that were on the table . In other words the £40 million paid didn’t match Paramount + in terms of longevity or indeed the quantum but as we know the PL blocked that deal. I had hoped we would challenge that ruling but as history tells us we didn’t.

2) In 24/25 a strategic decision was made that the offers and the period of those deals were very much based on poor performance. It seems BlueCo gambled that the market would be more lucrative for the 25/26 season. The few games that there was a front of shirt are reported to have been worth between £7-11 million.

3) Going forward it seems that rather than being trapped in a £40m PA deal and the club will be looking toward £60 PA deal. Will that be feasible ? Well it needs to be a long term deal, it needs to recover circa £33 million we are down .

4) Don’t be at all surprised if whoever the sponsor is ( I think it will be a middle eastern airline) not only have front of shirt but also part of the clubs infrastructure bears the name. Maybe a stand, Cobham or Kingsmeadow. I somehow doutit will be SB

As an aside isn’t our shirt deal with Nike a 15 year deal ending in 2032 ?

Turning to the Puma deal on the face of it a new £100pa deal maybe isn’t quite what it appears.

The current £65million Pa deal had another 4 years to run. There was absolutely no need for Puma to renegotiate that 10 year deal at this point in time so why has it been uplifted to £100pa ?

I am no expert in this type of activity on the face of it and based on other teams there wouldn’t have been any new negotiations unless the existing deal had a clause that required a new deal at this point . Unlikely I would suggest.

Do Puma a see Man City are paragons of virtue deserving of a not necessarily well time new deal .This is interesting but it seems that even at this point in time we simply don’t know what the IC will rule

Anyone remember our old Aiddas deal where we bought ourself out and moved to Nike ?

Is it possible that City have done the same ? Well maybe not the same but gave notice that they, City, wanted to end the deal? This is purely speculation but I keep going back why ,when it had near enough 40% of the deal to run ,would Puma need to throw so much at City at this point in time ?

Not sure where to put this and I'm not starting a whole topic for a simple question.

Somebody please help out an old fart

So I have seen the Chelsea and Drake Ovo clothing collaboration stuff and the ridiculous prices.

Can someone please tell me why our badge is on the clothing along with Sheffield Wednesday's?

I must say i really do think some on here will NEVER accept the new ownership and are torn between being right and wishing the team well.
After the initial, what appeared to be a mad spending spree on young unproven players i was as sceptical as most on here. But we do have to bear in mind that these players are on small wages (relative to others we've signed in the past) and long contracts. The benefit of this is beginning to show this season, two prospects who helped us along but aren't top, top quality have been sold at substantial profit.
i see a few more going that way this summer too, Jackson being the main one (hopefully), it's likely the profit from him will have paid for Joa pedro and some of Delap which i see as a brilliant piece of business.
I honestly think after the CWC win on top of the two bob conference we are looking very good for next season, we actually look potent up top now.
Along with the ones that don't make it but still turn a profit there is these to consider..
Palmer, Caicado, Enzo, Cucu & a quickly improving Neto all of whom are turning into top class players and only two of those were big, big money.
All in all i'm currently happy, as an ol' duffer that's watched and supported Chelsea for coming up to 60yrs with all it's ups and downs for me the futures bright and bet your arse the others are not laughing at us anymore, unlike Manure !!

13 hours ago, chelseablueboy said:

I must say i really do think some on here will NEVER accept the new ownership and are torn between being right and wishing the team well.
After the initial, what appeared to be a mad spending spree on young unproven players i was as sceptical as most on here. But we do have to bear in mind that these players are on small wages (relative to others we've signed in the past) and long contracts. The benefit of this is beginning to show this season, two prospects who helped us along but aren't top, top quality have been sold at substantial profit.
i see a few more going that way this summer too, Jackson being the main one (hopefully), it's likely the profit from him will have paid for Joa pedro and some of Delap which i see as a brilliant piece of business.
I honestly think after the CWC win on top of the two bob conference we are looking very good for next season, we actually look potent up top now.
Along with the ones that don't make it but still turn a profit there is these to consider..
Palmer, Caicado, Enzo, Cucu & a quickly improving Neto all of whom are turning into top class players and only two of those were big, big money.
All in all i'm currently happy, as an ol' duffer that's watched and supported Chelsea for coming up to 60yrs with all it's ups and downs for me the futures bright and bet your arse the others are not laughing at us anymore, unlike Manure !!

Gotta agree with all this, I still remain a bit unconvinced as to their motives and how this all pans out, but at the moment they are showing they have definitely learnt from early mistakes and seem to be heading in the right direction.

Matt Law reporting that the club are currently in talks with 7-10 big global companies on a long term shirt sponsor deal.

This time last year, they were only talking to 2 fairly large companies who'd only offer £40m a year. Had they signed with one of them, they could of potentially left £100m on the table....

3 hours ago, evissy said:

I mean ... that all sounds great and what we all want to hear, but when/where exactly did they write all that last year when he states What we wrote last year still stands ... ???

I for sure missed it, and I don't recall any mention whatsoever of it on here, so I guess everyone else missed it too LOL

1 hour ago, Sexyfootball said:

I mean ... that all sounds great and what we all want to hear, but when/where exactly did they write all that last year when he states What we wrote last year still stands ... ???

I for sure missed it, and I don't recall any mention whatsoever of it on here, so I guess everyone else missed it too LOL

I didn't see it either. Their communication needs to be a lot better for sure.

1 hour ago, Sexyfootball said:

I mean ... that all sounds great and what we all want to hear, but when/where exactly did they write all that last year when he states What we wrote last year still stands ... ???

I for sure missed it, and I don't recall any mention whatsoever of it on here, so I guess everyone else missed it too LOL

Don't anybody remind me of what I stated last year!

4 hours ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Matt Law reporting that the club are currently in talks with 7-10 big global companies on a long term shirt sponsor deal.

This time last year, they were only talking to 2 fairly large companies who'd only offer £40m a year. Had they signed with one of them, they could of potentially left £100m on the table....

We're on our way to Scrooge McDuck money!

On 15/07/2025 at 21:50, petre ispirescu said:

Speaking of Arsenal, I was on Youtube last night looking at reactions to our win, and there are so many Arsenal channels constantly talking about who is the bigger club out of Arsenal and Chelsea. I see it all of the time with them, they are so insecure about it.

29 minutes ago, Scott Harris said:

Speaking of Arsenal, I was on Youtube last night looking at reactions to our win, and there are so many Arsenal channels constantly talking about who is the bigger club out of Arsenal and Chelsea. I see it all of the time with them, they are so insecure about it.

that prick TY is the worst, he was insistent that PSG would come back back from 3 goals down, and the other Arsenal supporters in the studio with him couldn't believe him, not only that when Chelsea supporters asked him questions about how many CL Arsenal had won his only comeback was the Arsenal invincible season

3 hours ago, Scott Harris said:

Speaking of Arsenal, I was on Youtube last night looking at reactions to our win, and there are so many Arsenal channels constantly talking about who is the bigger club out of Arsenal and Chelsea. I see it all of the time with them, they are so insecure about it.

Look on ALL the socials.. We have millions more followers

12 hours ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Matt Law reporting that the club are currently in talks with 7-10 big global companies on a long term shirt sponsor deal.

This time last year, they were only talking to 2 fairly large companies who'd only offer £40m a year. Had they signed with one of them, they could of potentially left £100m on the table....

Real Madrid reportedly have the largest shirt sponsorship deal (Emirates) and it is 'only' €70m/a season (excluding City's obviously bullsh*t Etihad deal). A long-term deal will realistically come in at around €50-€60m at best. We're not going to be that much better off and the lack of a shirt sponsor last season required us to sell long-term assets and pull an FFP trick to try and comply with rules, so it's difficult to say there was a net opportunity cost.

The real advantage of the CWC win is that it has dramatically expanded the list of companies willing to work with us in a difficult economic environment, so we're not longer waiting for a random oil-state airline to bail us out, and we're more able to lock in a favourable deal for longer.

I think we need to be careful not to discount other sponsorship opportunities that should now arise other than the shirt deal. The UK might not see the WCC as much of a thing but it looks like the rest of the world do, and having the world champions as a sponsor partnership will definitely be seen as "blue chip".

Essentially then. Even though we’re the ‘smallest’ we’ve been in the last 2 decades we’re still absolutely massive. Lovely. Simply Lovely.