It's done.

Mistake.

Wow, Santos and Tielemans? Man Utd are really targeting their problem position.

With that idiot Maresca at Man City and Arsenal not really being that good they might win the league.

stupid.

1 hour ago, PloKoon13 said:

Wow, Santos and Tielemans? Man Utd are really targeting their problem position.

With that idiot Maresca at Man City and Arsenal not really being that good they might win the league.

Don't really know how to read into this, can't figure if you are serious about it, or just taking the piss.

If anything, these are average at best transfers that won't improve them at all. Guess their pull on big names is fading away for the moment if Andrey Santos and Tielemans are the ones they can attract with UCL football.

The talk of United suddenly back in for the big trophies is laughable, people forget they were the only big club in Europe that started 2026 with only one competition to play in having been knocked out by Grimsby in August and knocked out in the FA Cup very early in January 2026. They even had a three-week break from mid March to mid April because of that, when others were playing every three or four days.

Let's watch them this season when the pressure is on and the matches pile up.

Edited Monday at 15:241 day by petre ispirescu

18 minutes ago, petre ispirescu said:

Don't really know how to read into this, can't figure if you are serious about it, or just taking the piss.

If anything, these are average at best transfers that won't improve them at all. Guess their pull on big names is fading away for the moment if Andrey Santos and Tielemans are the ones they can attract with UCL football.

The talk of United suddenly back in for the big trophies is laughable, people forget they were the only big club in Europe that started 2026 with only one competition to play in having been knocked out by Grimsby in August and knocked out in the FA Cup very early in January 2026. They even had a three-week break from mid March to mid April because of that, when others were playing every three or four days.

Let's watch them this season when the pressure is on and the matches pile up.

They're in Europe, they're adding squad depth. Obviously.

13 minutes ago, dermott said:

They're in Europe, they're adding squad depth. Obviously.

Casemiro is gone.

Mainoo, Mount, Santos, Tielemans and Ugarte their central midfielders.

That really is a bang average midfield.

It's not like they qualified for Europe having had a congested season. They had the most favourable schedule a club can ask for.

36 minutes ago, petre ispirescu said:

Don't really know how to read into this, can't figure if you are serious about it, or just taking the piss.

If anything, these are average at best transfers that won't improve them at all. Guess their pull on big names is fading away for the moment if Andrey Santos and Tielemans are the ones they can attract with UCL football.

The talk of United suddenly back in for the big trophies is laughable, people forget they were the only big club in Europe that started 2026 with only one competition to play in having been knocked out by Grimsby in August and knocked out in the FA Cup very early in January 2026. They even had a three-week break from mid March to mid April because of that, when others were playing every three or four days.

Let's watch them this season when the pressure is on and the matches pile up.

They don't have the quality of manager, and they don't have the funds to spend big. They wanted Anderson, Tonali etc. but couldn't get the money. Santos is someone they identified 12 months ago as a player they wanted, and they've reverted back to that despite him not showing he can deliver in the PL. They are gambling.

They'll be there or there abouts in the top 4 race, but won't challenge Arsenal.

We might have a freak season where we do, it depends on us making the quality transfer at CB and CM we need, and our players clicking without Europe.

Stat padding Bruno is going to regress as well when he doesn't have 7 days' rest like last season.

Absolute madness. Yet we keep Lavia

1 hour ago, Andy2461 said:

Absolute madness. Yet we keep Lavia

I guarantee if Man United wanted to spend 40m+ on Lavia we'd have sold him. They don't. No one does.

Ffs!!!!! We easily have 8 players that we should be cashing in before Santos. 50m is the bare minimum you could sign him for. I really hate this club.

I am not as fussed about this one as some are.

There are certainly a lot of other players who i would rather see leave before Santos however I'm not convinced he is going to develop into anything over and above a good but not a great player. I feel £50m is probably about right and, given our self inflicted, financial challenges was an offer we had to accept.

36 minutes ago, KonaKai Blue said:

Ffs!!!!! We easily have 8 players that we should be cashing in before Santos. 50m is the bare minimum you could sign him for. I really hate this club.

They are just not capable of conducting these deals. Cucurella and Santos left the club despite these fking morons not because of them. I have no confidence that these idiots are capable of selling anyone. The only players they can buy are kids taken out of their environments which we overpay for with promises of bright lights, big city

Someone, anyone, convince me that these f**kwits aren't deliberately trying to kill Caicedo.

12 hours ago, DarkMata said:

Predicting Madueke and Jackson are to be sold, come on mystic Bob I wanted them both gone having seen them play for a month. Cucu basically came out saying the club is a shambles and he wants out. No doubt from me he'd still be here if that's what he wanted, not exactly forced out for profit.

Have any of our best player been sold or have they all been deemed not good enough? Selling Juan Mata was a million times worse than this.

It looks like blue co is right after all. Some fans like this.

It is rare for a big team willing to sell srarter/key rotation player. But under blue co we have constant player turnover every season and I see fans like this.

2 hours ago, KonaKai Blue said:

Ffs!!!!! We easily have 8 players that we should be cashing in before Santos. 50m is the bare minimum you could sign him for. I really hate this club.

2 hours ago, KonaKai Blue said:

No we don't. Santos is arguably our most sellable asset.

1 hour ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Someone, anyone, convince me that these f**kwits aren't deliberately trying to kill Caicedo.

I may have got it wrong, but what I get from that is that by August we'll have signed some players from the "plan" and will have a squad able to compete. Surely that means a new partner for Caicedo and I do think he's not really counting on Enzo staying even though he's mentioned they've talked a bit.

9 hours ago, Bob stark said:

It looks like blue co is right after all. Some fans like this.

It is rare for a big team willing to sell srarter/key rotation player. But under blue co we have constant player turnover every season and I see fans like this.

Part of the reason we have a high turnover of players every season is we keep buying a high number of crap players.

11 hours ago, Brigadeiro Mk II said:

I may have got it wrong, but what I get from that is that by August we'll have signed some players from the "plan" and will have a squad able to compete. Surely that means a new partner for Caicedo and I do think he's not really counting on Enzo staying even though he's mentioned they've talked a bit.

Very much sounds like weve sold him to fund buying someone else, as long as that someone else is a player Alonso wants to play in his system then so be it.

I think we have to applaud our SDs on a canny piece of business underlining their acumen and expertise in the market place of player trading and maximising the profit from our intense programme of player development.

Many of us on here have called the quality of these individuals into question and have often remarked upon our astonishment that they are still employed here. Idiots, clowns, frauds even, dare i say it, the word c**ts has been bandied about.

I wanted to do a deep dive into the particular highpoints of the strategy being implemented by Messrs Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, and Grubb (Winstanley, Stewart, Shields, Jewell, and Fallows) however i am not sure i could hold your collective attention for that length of time.

So i am going to gloss over the calamitous FOS sponsorship debacle, the lack of stadium development, the stunted growth of the much lauded multi club model and the fantastic financial brinkmanship from those running our institution following Behdad Egbhali's fabled comments to Sportico that the previous administration under Roman Abramovich was "not terribly well managed on the football side, sporting side or promotional side".

I am also going to let slide the innumerable young careers stalled or ruined by these people as dressing room walls were knocked down to accommodate them and just focus upon a few highlights in the glittering array of success we have witnessed.

First up has to be our poster boy, our international and club World champion that our sporting directors single handedly and craftily negotiated into joining Project CFC.LDN. Err well no actually. Egbhali had to go wading in, boy parts swinging to try and get a failing deal over the line because the release clause couldn't be met.

Okay, so let's focus on our stars, our successes. Centre stage Moises Caicedo and Cole Palmer. Um, well Moises Caicedo was a deal that they lost actually to Liverpool who were at the point of concluding the deal when Caicedo himself refused to go there in order to come to Chelsea (i'm sure with no agent collusion behind the scenes) For Cole Palmer didn't we lose out on Michael Olise because we had his brother in our academy system (who we have now released by the way) and we tried to get him to tap up Michael on our behalf. Palmer was our fall back option ("Ooh, go on then"). That's how perceptive these SDs and the model is.

I appreciate that i am rambling so i have a couple more but please add your own anecdotes where you see fit.

Hakim Ziyech was a good one. Sold, in the offices of PSG waiting to be finalised. Ziyech actually made a personal call to Boehly to get this done...and the fax machine broke. The fax machine!! Fax ffs. Lol. With the DeLorean just sitting outside waiting to eb used!

Jadon Sancho was such a piece of negotiating mastery that despite the fanbase and most of the worlds press saying its a bad idea we still went ahead with taking him on from Man Utd on the basis that he is Chels after all. That went so well we paid them £5m to give him back. These SDs paid Man Utd for us to NOT sign him.

Garnacho, these people twerked for over two or three windows again against all advice from everyone that saw this car crash in advance, including even Man Utd people. Now we are trying to shift him cos there are lots of clubs interested. Right, hmm.

Over the course of the last 20 years or so the two most prolific football academies have been those of Chelsea and Man City. Thankfully we have employees involved in both of these. One set of employees we bombed off, one set we kept. We bought Jamie Gittens (ex Man City academy) for £48.5m, and sold Tyrique George (ex Chelsea academy) for £18m. Still its about levels. Right, hmm

To finish let's focus on this ability to identify and nurture some of the brightest young talents in world football. I am not talking about Angelo Gabriel, Carney Chukwuemeka, Lesley Ugochukwu, Diego Moreira, Datro Fofana, or indeed Kendry Paez that have been or shortly will be consigned to bin. Let's look at Deivid Washington who we bought from Santos for £17.2m (or put another way for about the cost of a Pep Chavarria). Deivid went into our development squad but struggled to get game time ahead of Dujuan Richards, Charlie Runham, and Shim Mhueka. So he then went back on loan to the club that we bought him from where he has played a total of 551 minutes (about 6 matches) and scored 1 goal in the whole of last season. So we paid them £17m for their player who couldn't get a game here so we lent him back to them and he still can't get a game even there.

I appreciate that this message is long, and i apologise. But i wanted to highlight that we shouldn't show our angst or any form of disappointment in us selling Andrey Santos on for a profit. Instead lets all bask in the glory that these mindless, cretinous f*cksticks have actually for once completed one single task from their collective job description in four fkign years.

For the love of god, smite these fckers please.

We as fans has to get past all of this nonsense.

Do we have to sell? Yes, all of us saw the news of our acc last season.

Why Santos? If you list our sellable asset in term of book value profit and number, Santos is one of the top. It is that simple. All of this talk about club no rating him, santos want to leave is irrelevant. All we need to see is their salary, book value and how much can you get him in the market.