Sky sports tweeting deal done with Juve 5 minutes ago

Be nice if it is sorted quickly, whichever way it turns out.

If the deal is done then good luck to him, no ill feelings towards him. Juve are like Bayern, or PSG, a super club that dominate their leagues and have near limitless funds. For an Italian it must be a dream move. 

Welcome back Rafa then is it? Lol imagine the reaction!

di marzio and sky also insisting it is lampard

8 minutes ago, Shug said:

Sky sports tweeting deal done with Juve 5 minutes ago

And Fabrizio Romano of The Guardian.

2 hours ago, Valerie said:

Amazing inside knowledge on both corporate and personal matters. 

Amazing that you criticise and make sarcastic comments every time you get a chance but when I answer with logic like the last two times you don’t have the grace to acknowledge it just move in to the next one.

Its not inside knowledge that our youth system makes us money or that we do well on player sales, please explain your idiotic comment?

Why would that require inside knowledge trade prices for players are public, it’s also not inside knowledge that our owner and director don’t have footballing backgrounds, it’s also been spoken about publicly and in here that the koulibaly deal didn’t go through because of over negotiating.

  At least make your sarcastic comments semi plausible. 

5 minutes ago, RickUK said:

di marzio and sky also insisting it is lampard

Boo. Lamps deserves much better. 

1 hour ago, Boston Blue said:

Just as selling clubs set a value on a player, so do buying clubs.  Marina did not f**k up a transfer simply because she refused to pay over the odds for a player.  She is doing exactly what Roman wants her to do.  If she wasn't, he would direct her to do it differently, or replace her.

Several teams have expressed an interest in Koulibaly.  Has every one of them f**ked up the transfer because they also refused to pay Napoli's high asking price?   In fact, Marina is to be praised here because it appears that the value she places on Koulibaly is more in line with the other teams interested in him.

Hence I said she is good financially and you trimmed it to suit your narrative, even when I argue with you that we ARE financially good you go the other way contradicting your first argument just to contradict me, were you bullied at school? It’s ok this is a safe place 

Marina is good at financials hence her positioning and totally yes she is doing the job she was put there to do which now appears to be based on a sound financial model rather that success at all costs.

We have seen the shift in Roman from pure success hunting to trying to make us a good business and marina bring appointed director is a big signal if that.

What you are Valarie don’t get in your Femwarrior frenzies is I dont dislike marina as a woman or a personally, she is beautiful and capable but what she isn’t is a good football director for a club with footballing ambitions.

Every football fan should worry when the club becomes bottom line over football, the good clubs do both, Arsenal financially very good, football has suffered, why some just blindly refuse to get this point is strange. 

14 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

Be nice if it is sorted quickly, whichever way it turns out.

If the deal is done then good luck to him, no ill feelings towards him. Juve are like Bayern, or PSG, a super club that dominate their leagues and have near limitless funds. For an Italian it must be a dream move. 

Welcome back Rafa then is it? Lol imagine the reaction!

It was a shame the majority of fans wanted Rafa to leave, even after doing a  fine job under difficult circumstances. I was as anti Rafa as anyone when he was appointed, but the dislike faded because i saw real promise for the future with the way he was getting the blend right with Mata, Hazard and Oscar and also the way he used Luiz. I even remember fans of other clubs praising some of  the football we were playing. 

4 minutes ago, Dixons said:

It was a shame the majority of fans wanted Rafa to leave, even after doing a  fine job under difficult circumstances. I was as anti Rafa as anyone when he was appointed, but the dislike faded because i saw real promise for the future with the way he was getting the blend right with Mata, Hazard and Oscar and also the way he used Luiz. I even remember fans of other clubs praising some of  the football we were playing. 

Nope, he’s still a FSW.

10 minutes ago, Dixons said:

It was a shame the majority of fans wanted Rafa to leave, even after doing a  fine job under difficult circumstances. I was as anti Rafa as anyone when he was appointed, but the dislike faded because i saw real promise for the future with the way he was getting the blend right with Mata, Hazard and Oscar and also the way he used Luiz. I even remember fans of other clubs praising some of  the football we were playing. 

Rafa managing Chelsea was one of the lowest points of my 30 plus years following us.

Should never of happened and certainly should never happen again.

2 hours ago, kiwi1691 said:

We get it, you hate Sarri and you refuse to credit him with any success. The lengths you will go to claim he 'got lucky' is ridiculous. 

Ok, if you want to talk sh*te then go ahead. At no point did I say I hate him, I just don't think he is very good.

Edited June 13, 20197 yr by Scott Harris

12 minutes ago, Chelsbear said:

Rafa managing Chelsea was one of the lowest points of my 30 plus years following us.

Should never of happened and certainly should never happen again.

Some fans (yes, a minority) did change their hard stance against him because they too could see the job he was doing. Yes, he had a bit of a dig at us, but Chelsea and Liverpool had that rivalry at that time, so having digs and winding up your rivals is fair game. For me, by far the most important thing is what happens on the pitch. I want to see us win and play good football and that's what Rafa was doing.  All the rest with the press and media hype is trivial fluff.

48 minutes ago, Dixons said:

It was a shame the majority of fans wanted Rafa to leave, even after doing a  fine job under difficult circumstances. I was as anti Rafa as anyone when he was appointed, but the dislike faded because i saw real promise for the future with the way he was getting the blend right with Mata, Hazard and Oscar and also the way he used Luiz. I even remember fans of other clubs praising some of  the football we were playing. 

Were they singing 'We want you to stay", too?

Well we never stopped singing Super Frank....

39 minutes ago, Scott Harris said:

Ok, if you want to talk sh*te then go ahead. At no point did I say I hate him, I just don't think he is very good.

3rd place, E L winners and  holding our own against City in the Cup final. Achieved while changing the way we played, with very moderate strikers and a severe lack of goals and creativity from midfield. By anyone's standards, that was good going!

We didn't sack Sarri, he wanted to go to Juventus.

 

He left us.

9 minutes ago, Backbiter said:

Were they singing 'We want you to stay", too?

No, because they were individuals. Rafa even noticed the change towards the end, admitting the majority still wanted him to leave, but some were suppoortive of him.    Same with Jorginho. We heard the mobs disgraceful booing, but we know there are others who are quietly supportive.

Didn’t frank just say “why would I want to be sacked in 2 years?”

2 hours ago, WalterWhiteCFC said:

Every football fan should worry when the club becomes bottom line over football, the good clubs do both, Arsenal financially very good, football has suffered, why some just blindly refuse to get this point is strange. 

Chelsea had to change to comply with FFP, if we do not comply with FFP we will be punished, also if you care about the long term financial stability of the club than you should be happy the club is less reliant on Romans personal funds. 

34 minutes ago, kiwi1691 said:

Chelsea had to change to comply with FFP, if we do not comply with FFP we will be punished, also if you care about the long term financial stability of the club than you should be happy the club is less reliant on Romans personal funds. 

We could be spending smarter and supporting managers and still meet with ffp everyone does except city who actually meet it but by using loopholes.

2 ways too look at it, be moderate less ambitious tighten up spending meet ffp.

Try and stay elite by focusing on football, winning trophies and finishing higher up the league plus qualification for the CL makes more money, means more money to spend plus more success means more fans and again more revenue.

Now it seems we went for option 1 that’s reasonable if you weren’t elite to start with but trophies and success brings fans and revenue we were there, So should have kept pressing to get in that higher revenue band.

Its a snowball effect and whatever is a snowball effect opposite make more, spend more , have more success, make more and round it goes.

When you remove yourself from that then it’s very hard to get out of it agin without spending. 

You have to wait for a Potch and a combo of striking gold in the window and great youth players like Tottenham have now, if they spend now they will be in a new band if they don’t they will eventually become normal Tottenham again. 

3 hours ago, WalterWhiteCFC said:

Hence I said she is good financially and you trimmed it to suit your narrative, even when I argue with you that we ARE financially good you go the other way contradicting your first argument just to contradict me, were you bullied at school? It’s ok this is a safe place 

Marina is good at financials hence her positioning and totally yes she is doing the job she was put there to do which now appears to be based on a sound financial model rather that success at all costs.

We have seen the shift in Roman from pure success hunting to trying to make us a good business and marina bring appointed director is a big signal if that.

What you are Valarie don’t get in your Femwarrior frenzies is I dont dislike marina as a woman or a personally, she is beautiful and capable but what she isn’t is a good football director for a club with footballing ambitions.

Every football fan should worry when the club becomes bottom line over football, the good clubs do both, Arsenal financially very good, football has suffered, why some just blindly refuse to get this point is strange. 

"She is beautiful....."

"That stupid Russian woman".

"I don't dislike Marina as a woman or personally"

 

These are your quotes.  I think your views on her are evident for everyone to see...........one might read these comments you write and believe you to be a sexist.

1 minute ago, Boston Blue said:

"She is beautiful....."

"That stupid Russian woman".

"I don't dislike Marina as a woman or personally"

 

These are your quotes.  I think your views on her are evident for everyone to see...........one might read these comments you write and believe you to be a sexist.

f**k  me when the “soccer knowledge” you were tooting  your horn about doesn’t work back to that sh*t what a pathetic little man. 

Complimenting her again with you taking half what I said awaybin a quite to twist it....saying she is beautiful and capabile is sexist? 

Saying I DONT have anything against her on account of being a woman rather because she doesn’t have a footballing background is sexist?

What a little snake you are the worst kind of person, can’t play the game so reverts to looking for trigger words to get support, f**k off seriously have some respect for yourself 

Haven't seen anyone weigh in on how Sarri will do at Juve. I don't think it's the sure thing Juve are banking on.

Obstacle 1 is getting a group of seasoned players to buy in to a specific style of play and hitting the ground running. Obstacle 2 is getting through to Ronaldo's ego if he's asked to play in a way he doesn't think suits him. I think Sarri will prefer him at CF and Dybala on the wing tbh.

I wouldn't be surprised to see Inter win Serie A next season with Juve going trophyless. We would be better off with Sarri next season but Frank may end up coming away smelling better after all is said and done. 

Anyway, cheers Maurizio; glad you could win your first trophy here. 

Well Mr. Sarri good bye and good luck. Moving on to the next chapter in the world of Chelsea football club KTBFFH

13 minutes ago, Kev56 said:

Well Mr. Sarri good bye and good luck. Moving on to the next chapter in the world of Chelsea football club KTBFFH

I dunno if it’s me but haven’t had a feel good factor at Chelsea for a while maybe frank will bring that back, very curious and a bit apprehensive what the next chapter will be. 

 I like results but I also like to feel good about the club, as stands there is no one that really gives me that feel good factor, maybe kante but generally as a squad and club, seems mourinho isn’t very popular at all on here now but I sure miss those days.

For me as a school boy when I actively started getting more into football as opposed to being a kid and dragged along,  brilliant memories when Rudd was in charge I felt we were making real progress I liked the players then under Ranieri you started to believe Chelsea could get somewhere so for me following on that morinho days were just ecstasy as a football supporter, and even after there were still brilliant seasons and players, we always held up well against the big teams because we could always defend and counter.

I was too young to care that much when we were in the second division my memories have either been watching us grow or at the top so maybe some of the older people are just happy to be around this level but for me I’ve always had that optimistic feel about Chelsea.

 I hope whoever we bring in just does something different, the hire and fire up and down thing isn’t very fulfilling as a supporter .