The BlueCo magic seems to be rubbing off on Cobham as well ... the U-21s got hammered 6-2 by Benfica last night LOL

Disasi was playing for the first 62 minutes, at which point we were 5-1 down. We're never going to get rid of him are we ?

Reggie Walsh and Jesse Derry came on in 62nd minute, and 3 minutes later Walsh assisted Derry to make it 5-2 (all Derry to be honest)

Seems odd that you'd have two of our better players on the frigging bench - clearly a pervasive issue at the club LOL

Deivid Washington started btw. Didn't score obviously (has no goals at all for the U-21s this season in 479 minutes)

https://www.chelseafc.com/en/video/premier-league-international-cup-highlights-chelsea-u21-2-6-benfica-u21

Edited January 8Jan 8 by Sexyfootball

28 minutes ago, Sexyfootball said:

Wouldn't be averse to this. I've always thought Cucurella is a triumph of hair, energy and attitude over actual defensive nous !

If you replaced him with Barco, which thankfully the club wouldn't, you'd have less defensive nous, and less of the rest as well...including the hair.

3 minutes ago, venom2011 said:

If you replaced him with Barco, which thankfully the club wouldn't, you'd have less defensive nous, and less of the rest as well...including the hair.

Think of the money saved though LOL

1 hour ago, venom2011 said:

If you replaced him with Barco, which thankfully the club wouldn't, you'd have less defensive nous, and less of the rest as well...including the hair.

But there would be a bit of poetry when we were collectively shouting O...MG at the telly with Gust-o, Adarabiy-o, Hat-o and Barc-o shoring up our defence

1 hour ago, Sexyfootball said:

Think of the money saved though LOL

Lol they will probably increase Barco wages massively when he joins and then sell Cucu at a cheap price in desperation.

Looking at 24/25 season Barco was in the midfield pivot with Santos, and was way off Santos on all the metrics you'd use for midfielders. No idea why we might sign him when presumably he'd just be 4th in line behind Caicedo, Fernandez (ugh) and Andrey ... should probably have just kept hold of KDH or Gallagher LOL if we wanted additional competition in midfield.

1 minute ago, Sexyfootball said:

Looking at 24/25 season Barco was in the midfield pivot with Santos, and was way off Santos on all the metrics you'd use for midfielders. No idea why we might sign him when presumably he'd just be 4th in line behind Caicedo, Fernandez (ugh) and Andrey ... should probably have just kept hold of KDH or Gallagher LOL if we wanted additional competition in midfield.

He'd be bought as an investment of course. Lol

When did we ever buy players for the squad with this crowd?

Edited January 8Jan 8 by OTL

1 minute ago, OTL said:

He'd be bought as an investment of course. Lol

Probably buy him in the summer and loan him back to Strasbourg next season LOL ... like we've done with Mamadou Sarr.

On 07/01/2026 at 12:09, markpitts said:

EXCL: Inside Chelsea: The truth about the project

I sat down with Chelsea’s Sporting leadership team

"Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with Chelsea’s Sporting Leadership Team to mindlessly parrot every propaganda point they wanted out there".

f**king hell, that article is some shameless sh*t.

1 minute ago, PloKoon13 said:

"Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with Chelsea’s Sporting Leadership Team to mindlessly parrot every propaganda point they wanted out there".

f**king hell, that article is some shameless sh*t.

He's been getting pelters on his Twitter feed LOL

1 hour ago, PloKoon13 said:

"Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with Chelsea’s Sporting Leadership Team to mindlessly parrot every propaganda point they wanted out there".

f**king hell, that article is some shameless sh*t.

Its pathetic isnt it, I only got about a quarter of the way through before binning it, it was basically a bought and paid for advert.

If i was local i wound go @Zeta

Not sure if anyone is local and can go to the protest from our forum. Anyone?

So who will be our first top player to ask to leave. Has to be coming if it has not already.

Cucu could be the one. Him and Reece are in the same boat hitting their prime years but Reece has the connection to us.

I could see Barca/Real/Athletic wanting cucu.

2 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

So who will be our first top player to ask to leave. Has to be coming if it has not already.

Cucu could be the one. Him and Reece are in the same boat hitting their prime years but Reece has the connection to us.

I could see Barca/Real/Athletic wanting cucu.

Palmer for sure.

Sadly for Reece I can see him staying out of loyalty and love for the club. He deserves so much more.

I think Palmer first, then Cucu. Then a bit later Caicedo and finally Reece.

4 minutes ago, yaz said:

Palmer for sure.

Sadly for Reece I can see him staying out of loyalty and love for the club. He deserves so much more.

I think Palmer first, then Cucu. Then a bit later Caicedo and finally Reece.

Palmers a good shout.

Reece has 2 and a half years on his contract. He's paid way above the wage cap so, unless he agrees to a wage drop or we make an exceptionto the wage cap for him, will Eghbali risk him leaving for free?

BlueCo's "pure profit" options for the January window :

• James

• Chalobah

• Acheampong

• George

• Tosin

• Castledine

One down ... place your bets on who's next !

1 hour ago, Sexyfootball said:

BlueCo's "pure profit" options for the January window :

• James

• Chalobah

• Acheampong

• George

• Tosin

• Castledine

One down ... place your bets on who's next !

Has Castledine been dropped because we prefer his sister? She got with Vinny last week.

3 hours ago, dkw said:

Its pathetic isnt it, I only got about a quarter of the way through before binning it, it was basically a bought and paid for advert.

I was rather hoping critical thinking was still in vogue but I suppose not.

Don't suppose Saddam is still around? I may be able to get some free KitKats or forge a career as a wolf-in-sheep's-clothing socialist like George Galloway.

2 hours ago, axman2526 said:

If i was local i wound go @Zeta

Not sure if anyone is local and can go to the protest from our forum. Anyone?

The wife has said i can go.

2 hours ago, Sexyfootball said:

BlueCo's "pure profit" options for the January window :

• James

• Chalobah

• Acheampong

• George

• Tosin

• Castledine

One down ... place your bets on who's next !

Keep James and Josh and the rest can go

4 hours ago, axman2526 said:

If i was local i wound go @Zeta

Not sure if anyone is local and can go to the protest from our forum. Anyone?

I’d go but I’m overseas at the moment, so not going to the game.

Let me talk to you all for a minute.

Two things some, if not all of you, don't know.

1. Roman Abramovich had ZERO say in who bought us. While it was widely reported he was using the services of the Raine group it was, in fact, the UK government who selected BlueCo to buy FordStam Ltd.

   Now why would they do that over a bid led by one man who is a knight and another who is a lord, and pick an American ownership over a British one? $$$$.

2. It is widely known Roman cleared all our debts, but did you know we are in massive debt? Not Clearlake, not Todd, Walter's and their company, not wyss. No on Chelsea Fc. Well over a billion pounds in loans to Ares management, JP Morgan and the back of America. Huge interest rates exceeding 10%. Not their money, our clubs money.

18 hours ago, markpitts said:

EXCL: Inside Chelsea: The truth about the project

I sat down with Chelsea’s Sporting leadership team

interesting read. The board keep hiding behind experienced players demanding ridiculous wages, but that is the cost of doing business. Not sure I buy the £200k/w wage demand by Semenyo, probably his agent asked for that to get us to piss off. According to the papers he is going to be on £150k/w + bonuses at City.

Will be interesting to see what they do with Reece; do they ask him to take a pay cut or sell him under the pretence his wage demands were outrageous?

10 hours ago, dkw said:

Its pathetic isnt it, I only got about a quarter of the way through before binning it, it was basically a bought and paid for advert.

I expect plenty of quote. Nothing.

Nepotism FC

25 minutes ago, GarnachoCheese said:

Nepotism FC

Anyone with any links to the Roman era that is still at the club is on borrowed time.

This chap Hassan Sulaiman has done pretty well to remain in employment with BlueCo thus far if he's been in the youth set up since 2008 !