February 1, 20233 yr 25 minutes ago, bisright1 said: I don't want to alarm you and @Gol15 but Hazard was signed over 10 years ago. He was actually signed 10 and a half years ago.
February 1, 20233 yr The reaction to this signing has definitely raised the bar (that was already very high) when it comes to the press bashing Chelsea. Ian Dennis on the BBC says "Having covered a number of Argentina games at the World Cup, at no point did you feel you were watching a £105m-plus player". There is just a mixture of reactions like Chelsea are cheating, spending obscene money that should be spent on the NHS, making a mockery of FFP etc etc, all of which seem to be reactions of anger and fear. Yet these are equalled with the articles like that by Ian Dennis of He's sh*t, Benfica have ripped off the dumb Americans, they're tenth and will get relegated anyway etc. If Liverpool, United or even City had made this signing, it would be lauded as a great coup of securing a young World Cup winner full of great promise and a delight for all fans of football everywhere.
February 1, 20233 yr One of the best things about this signing is that the same people were revelling in it when we were sanctioned and there were genuine question marks about our future, are now crying like babies because we are spending big again. LOL
February 1, 20233 yr There is an interesting article in the Telegraph about Fair play provisions. Points of interest: 1. Profits on player sale are 100% counted in the year of sale, and all the academy players are 100% profit. 2. The rules are being changed to limit the number of years you can amortise acquisitions over and to limit the total spend to a fraction of player wages. So what we are doing now probably could not be done so easily in a year's time. In a sense that is clever of the Boehly team. They have spent big to build a young talented squad. Dont forget about Chukwumeka and Gusto as well as Santos, never mind your Colwills. That's basically where L'arse were a year or two ago. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2023/01/31/chelsea-stayed-within-ffp-rules-despite-500m-transfer-spending/ And a good opinion piece that sums up the strategy from the same newspaper. Never did I think I would ever link to the Telegraph. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2023/02/01/todd-boehly-genius-juggling-transfers-reckless-gambler/
February 1, 20233 yr 6 hours ago, Deino said: Benfica has to be loaded af right now. Last summer, 80m Nunez now 120m Enzo. A profit of 200m in 1 season alone I'm not the type of person who feels proud on that. Even because Benfica is the club who made more money with transfers in the world in the last year's and we can't go after the round of 16 of CL...
February 1, 20233 yr 6 hours ago, chiefBlueCFC said: I will not be paying anything Oh yes you are! I'm sending my men to knock on your door this afternoon. 🤨
February 1, 20233 yr A lot of money for a player who hasn’t made many appearances at the top level but looks top class, Could be the player we’ve been sorely lacking since Cesc with the creativity from midfield, would like to have seen a proper holding midfielder come in alongside him but can’t be too greedy😅Welcome Enzo!
February 1, 20233 yr 8 minutes ago, Aguia_SLB said: I'm not the type of person who feels proud on that. Even because Benfica is the club who made more money with transfers in the world in the last year's and we can't go after the round of 16 of CL... But if you keep receiving these obscene amounts of money you’ll be able to compete in the future.
February 1, 20233 yr 4 hours ago, evissy said: So what can we expect of him? Superb quality of pass, superb peripheral vision and power of anticipation. Most midfielders take the ball wherever they want, Enzo puts the ball wherever he wants. He's not great defending in the last quarter, but with a man on side doing that role it won't feel. In the other hand, he doesn't seem to be very great character. Don't want to rise red flags, even because I think he just got where he wanted, but his behaviour on his process has been nasty, false and full of hipocrisy. A shame. But for what it matters, he's one of the best in the world at his age.
February 1, 20233 yr 2 minutes ago, BedfordBlue said: But if you keep receiving these obscene amounts of money you’ll be able to compete in the future. Considering the time that we have been receiving these amounts, the future should be now. You can't just compete against financial powered clubs, with all the respect. This is where academy and sharp scouting becomes useless sportingly speaking, because you dig for talent and then others take them easily.
February 1, 20233 yr 1 hour ago, OriginalS said: Silva, Kante, Kovacic, Sterling are all very experienced players and will all be important players for us next season if they stay fit. Mount will also be 25 next season so not some young talent anymore, Chilwell who should also start will be 27 and so on. Nkunku who's coming in will be 26 and entering his prime. We'll have a mix of experience and youth. Which is the mix you want. If you look at City their core players have played with each other a good stretch under the same manager. If we are to challenge the title we need stability and TIME. If we are evaluating Potter after one season where "we thought" we should have the squad pieces together we are taking a leaf out of Roman's playbook. I hope Todd and co lead us with a more sustainable model. But I also think a club like ours need to show signs of a future Juggernaut pretty soon. Stability and repetitions will give you a chance of winning 28 games out of 38 in the league.
February 1, 20233 yr Goodness me, we're not slowing down are we? Let us hope we don't receive a visit from the FFP police. Happy for a new midfielder. Let's hope he is a significant improvement on Jorginho.
February 1, 20233 yr 1 minute ago, Spiller86 said: Goodness me, we're not slowing down are we? Let us hope we don't receive a visit from the FFP police. Happy for a new midfielder. Let's hope he is a significant improvement on Jorginho. Todd and co are used to working around money and regulations. I think with the army of lawyers they have they have thought everything through. However they don't know how fickle the governing bodies can be. We are not doing things by the Spirit of The FFP. This sort of behavior is finding loopholes and using them with massive forces of money. This is usually a sign for the governing bodies to once again finetune their rules so big money players like us can't bend and twist the market. I don't think we are breaking any laws, we are just choosing not to go with the spirit of the FFP ruling.
February 1, 20233 yr 18 minutes ago, evissy said: If you look at City their core players have played with each other a good stretch under the same manager. If we are to challenge the title we need stability and TIME. If we are evaluating Potter after one season where "we thought" we should have the squad pieces together we are taking a leaf out of Roman's playbook. I hope Todd and co lead us with a more sustainable model. But I also think a club like ours need to show signs of a future Juggernaut pretty soon. Stability and repetitions will give you a chance of winning 28 games out of 38 in the league. They have now yeah but Guardiola won the title in his second season with them after getting support in the market. Not saying we need to win next season. But to be in the picture and up there fighting? We absolutely should be.
February 1, 20233 yr So, how will this one go wrong? Sent off on his debut? Injured after 3 games? 5 match ban for a 2 year old social media post? Maybe I should start a prediction thread.
February 1, 20233 yr 6 minutes ago, evissy said: Todd and co are used to working around money and regulations. I think with the army of lawyers they have they have thought everything through. However they don't know how fickle the governing bodies can be. We are not doing things by the Spirit of The FFP. This sort of behavior is finding loopholes and using them with massive forces of money. This is usually a sign for the governing bodies to once again finetune their rules so big money players like us can't bend and twist the market. I don't think we are breaking any laws, we are just choosing not to go with the spirit of the FFP ruling. Clubs will always try to circumnavigate the laws, i do not see that as going against the spirit of FFP, in fact it will make it stronger over time as it adapts.
February 1, 20233 yr 1 minute ago, Zeta said: So, how will this one go wrong? Sent off on his debut? Injured after 3 games? 5 match ban for a 2 year old social media post? Maybe I should start a prediction thread. You predicted he wasn't even coming.
February 1, 20233 yr Well that would be a stupid prediction to make now he's here. So it's more likely to be one of the others. Unless you have some sort of time machine and are capable of un-doing the transfer, in which case I'll stick to my original one.
February 1, 20233 yr Just now, Zeta said: Well that would be a stupid prediction to make now he's here. So it's more likely to be one of the others. Unless you have some sort of time machine and are capable of un-doing the transfer, in which case I'll stick to my original one. 😆
February 1, 20233 yr He's the real deal the Prime Time player the Tripple Threat nobody can handle the three S man (Super, Scintillating, Sensational) We have 3* superstars now: THIAGO SILVA REECE JAMES ENZO f**kING FERNÁNDEZ *6 if we count in Kante. Edited February 1, 20233 yr by Gol15
February 1, 20233 yr Just think we signed Drinkwater, Bakayoko and Barkley for close to 100m and now they are nowhere to be seen. Now we have arguably the best CM in Europe.
February 1, 20233 yr 11 hours ago, Scott Harris said: Yep, that's an airport in Argentina. Crikey @Scott Harris how have you pulled that one out. All i can see is one sign in Spanish. Fair play.
February 1, 20233 yr Rewatching that World Cup final it was also interesting to compare Tchouameni to Enzo. Different styles but you could argue Tchouameni did more for France than Enzo did for Argentina. Yet Enzo’s energy and ball skills were really on show.
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