21 hours ago, The Rising Sun said:

My big worry is that Palmer is not going to be happy staying at Europa conference League Chelsea when he knows he could be playing in the Champions League 

He's too good to hang around here for very long without CL football.

And every CL club knows it

The thing is, outside of City, PSG and Madrid I can't think of one UCL club that would a) be able to afford him and b) would be enough of an upgrade even with UCL football in the short term.

If we narrowly miss out again and say Spurs and United make it it would be nonsensical to make an at best sideways move for the sake of what could be 8 games.

Hopefully it's a moot point come May.

On 15/09/2024 at 14:46, Sconnie Blue said:

Nah, he’s made several posts stating our owners will be looking to sell our best players every year. Convinced the owners would sell Palmer if an offer came because according to him their only real interest is maximum profit. 
 

The gripe I have is that Bob he thinks we are trying to be Brighton a little too much. Continues to overlook the fact Eghbali has said twice now that they believe it’s a more sustainable model to buy, develop, and KEEP these players vs buying ready made players that go £100m+. 

We've already bought two £100m players and another very expensive Ukrainian,.and a record transfer fee for a left back, and tried to buy an expensive ready made CF a few weeks ago 

So  Egbahli  isn't putting into practice his strategy

7 minutes ago, The Rising Sun said:

We've already bought two £100m players and another very expensive Ukrainian,.and a record transfer fee for a left back, and tried to buy an expensive ready made CF a few weeks ago 

So  Egbahli  isn't putting into practice his strategy

We've made like 60 signings under Clearlake. Just because 3 of them reached close to 9 figures doesn't mean they aren't putting their philosophy into practice. It isn't just about the transfer fee either. It's the wages. It's the very reason they only wanted Osimhen on their terms. 

3 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

We've made like 60 signings under Clearlake. Just because 3 of them reached close to 9 figures doesn't mean they aren't putting their philosophy into practice. It isn't just about the transfer fee either. It's the wages. It's the very reason they only wanted Osimhen on their terms.

 

If we start putting a run together, no one will care about philosophy or strategy anyway !

Come on you BLUES!

 

 

8 hours ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Because he literally said it. 

 

You're missing context - the whole speech was about transfer arbitrage to create value across multi-club model, ie the loaning of players between clubs to 'keep' them within the Chelsea system to increase the value. There's nothing about keeping them for the Chelsea first-team, it's about keeping them within BlueCo's control.

First sentence:

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“We think there’s a path to controlling labour costs and still producing a winning product using data, using the multi club.

 

Edited September 16, 20241 yr by SydneyChelsea

17 hours ago, SydneyChelsea said:

You're missing context - the whole speech was about transfer arbitrage to create value across multi-club model, ie the loaning of players between clubs to 'keep' them within the Chelsea system to increase the value. There's nothing about keeping them for the Chelsea first-team, it's about keeping them within BlueCo's control.

First sentence:

 

So then where in all that did you conclude we'd be selling off our very best players/talents vs keeping them in the first team? Club's actions towards Colwill, James, and Palmer disprove that.  

Called up for France along with Fofana.

If we can get by this international break without injuries or 'fatigue management' that would be fantastic. 

1 minute ago, Sconnie Blue said:

If we can get by this international break without injuries or 'fatigue management' that would be fantastic. 

With Nkunku and Fofana going to be under the care of DD that is asking a lot 

Exit Griezmann, enter Nkunku.

What a sitter missed. Cannot believe it. Have so much trust in him being a very sure goalscorer.

Great ball by Mudryk.

1 hour ago, abister1 said:

What a sitter missed. Cannot believe it. Have so much trust in him being a very sure goalscorer.

Great ball by Mudryk.

The header was quality too. Absolutely flung himself horizontally at it. 

I can't think of any game where I would start Jackson over Nkunku. Not one.

Should be starting but won't. Maresca is not confident in his legs 

7 hours ago, just said:

The header was quality too. Absolutely flung himself horizontally at it. 

I can't think of any game where I would start Jackson over Nkunku. Not one.

There is at least 1 game that Wacko would be more useful in..... Pin the tail on the donkey.... Please can I go first?!

Edited October 7, 20241 yr by nonotnowjim

Definitely needs to start up top next game, though he should have buried the header!.

To be fair opposition keepers suddenly becoming world class against us is a common thing.

Edited October 7, 20241 yr by Malcolm9

Think its harsh to say he's missed a sitter, sometimes you just have to hold your hands up and congratulate the keeper on the save. Same with his double save against Palmer. 

Really want to be seeing more of Nkunku, do wonder whether he'd have such an impact starting against these teams but we need to try it. 

3 hours ago, Ukraine Bolt said:

Think its harsh to say he's missed a sitter, sometimes you just have to hold your hands up and congratulate the keeper on the save. Same with his double save against Palmer. 

Really want to be seeing more of Nkunku, do wonder whether he'd have such an impact starting against these teams but we need to try it. 

I think the one thing you could say about the keeper's saves is they all came at a good height, and he didn't have to move much. the one shot heading to the corner went in pretty easily. 

Sanchez's saves were much more difficult to make, methinks.

16 hours ago, abister1 said:

What a sitter missed. Cannot believe it. Have so much trust in him being a very sure goalscorer.

Great ball by Mudryk.

It was a flying header, he was launched, horizontal. Virtually impossible to direct the header. Great attempt. Even better save.

Reminder that Sels is only playing for Forest thanks to BlueCo. If not for them Forest would probably still have that rubbish American kid from last season.

4 hours ago, PloKoon13 said:

Reminder that Sels is only playing for Forest thanks to BlueCo. If not for them Forest would probably still have that rubbish American kid from last season.

I haven't seen him play apart from in our game but most posts about him are about making some pretty bad mistakes each game.

Typical he turns into prime Petr Cech when facing us though. 😄 

Already being linked to PSG. Won’t blame him if he leaves considering he’s done enough to get a PL start but is still on the bench for whatever reason

Not much to it imo

46 minutes ago, Ukraine Bolt said:

Not much to it imo

Yeah, reporter "leading" nkunku in rgds to that question. It's how they make click bait titles.

On 06/10/2024 at 21:19, just said:

The header was quality too. Absolutely flung himself horizontally at it. 

I can't think of any game where I would start Jackson over Nkunku. Not one.

Well that’s just daft.

Jackson is far more capable of playing in a counter attacking team. That’s how it is just now.

Nkunku is absolute quality but he suffers from the way we set up in the league. I’d like him to get more minutes in the league though.

Jackson for all his negatives is central to the way we attack

Needs to work a lot harder. 

Has all the tools, skills and finishing ability, but he cannot just stroll about the pitch in this team. Must work harder.