8 minutes ago, Aussie79 said:

....they are spending money like Brewster millions 

And not enough when they actually need to!

They are the biggest problem Chelsea has. Absolute charlatans. 

Do you blame the clowns for making a mockery of things, or the ringmasters for giving them the stage in the first place.

 

The funniest thing is it was probably Shields that pushed Sancho (reading between the lines of the City connection) but he's untouchable.

1 minute ago, Argo said:

The funniest thing is it was probably Shields that pushed Sancho (reading between the lines of the City connection) but he's untouchable.

He can dine on advising the signing of Palmer for a long time.

I mean the other two brought in Mudryk, Badiashile and Disasi, so his blunder with Lavia is easily overlooked.

3 hours ago, axman2526 said:

He can dine on advising the signing of Palmer for a long time.

I mean the other two brought in Mudryk, Badiashile and Disasi, so his blunder with Lavia is easily overlooked.

Blunder with Lavia?

1 hour ago, Malcolm9 said:

Blunder with Lavia?

One game last season missed the rest of it. One game this season injured again. My fear is he is another made of Glass.

Signing Lavia was not a blunder for me, but the big mistakes is weakening the midfield by dispensing with Gallagher in favour of Dewsbury-Hall, and then compounding it by allowing Ugochukwu to go out on loan, having already decided that Chukwuemeka and Casadei are not going to be involved. This leaves us extremely light on cover, and hugely reliant on Enzo and Caicedo going injury free and playing in pretty much every game in a season in which we are supposedly worried about the overload of having a lot of fixtures.

Maybe Chucky might get some minutes now that we haven't been able to sell him, assuming Maresca is cool with a U-Turn on his previous comments of course 🙂 

Complete fekkin clowns 🤡

I wonder what their next move will be...

to bring in a few experienced players? to press on with the hoards of medium quality players with the view to sell on in a year or two?

They seem well established and are probably patting each other on the back at the profitable sales of players and the odd successful incoming player. 

Their recruitment model is such that they can describe it as working. They have the confidence and support of the owners. 

League position and on field performance are not their concern, what a life. Maybe its time for another interview?

I Think they are doing what they are told to do, bring in young players who may bring in a quick profit, i actually think Todd is not happy with this strategy and wants to bring in experienced players

4 hours ago, POCH OUT said:

I Think they are doing what they are told to do, bring in young players who may bring in a quick profit, i actually think Todd is not happy with this strategy and wants to bring in experienced players

It really seems like he has the lowest share out of everybody because his Dodgers (while baseball is competley different sport) operates on a completely different method - they still give this big money contracts but they buy the best of the best, not some prospects.

Even the Chelsea's woman team is run entirely different than the men's which has me scratching my head.

At least one of them has to go. Preferably Stewart. 

19 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

At least one of them has to go. Preferably Stewart. 

So then, their solution was to recall Trev after not allowing him to go on preseason tour, not allowing him to use the first team facilities, trying to force him out.

Such amazing directors we have hired...

6 minutes ago, Zeta said:

They are both scouts playing sporting director. 

Stewart is responsible for the Disasi/Badiashile disaster so that alone is the reason I choose him. 

Just a reminder that these two felt KDH was an upgrade on Gallagher and that Disasi was a better defender, and fit for Maresca, than Chalobah.

11 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

Just a reminder that these two felt KDH was an upgrade on Gallagher and that Disasi was a better defender, and fit for Maresca, than Chalobah.

13 hours ago, axman2526 said:

Just a reminder that these two felt KDH was an upgrade on Gallagher and that Disasi was a better defender, and fit for Maresca, than Chalobah.

You should do a daily reminder with every cock up these two (+ the board) have done in these years. Like an advent calendar.

As I've said before, if we don't sign a striker we aren't getting top 4. At this point I couldn't care less about mistakes we've made on some players in the past, I care more about what we do going forward. 

Our obsession with trying to replicate Brighton's model is weird. Brighton were a relegation battling club up until a couple seasons ago. There was that weird Brighton fascination with the media last season, but the praise has fallen off this season. Who will be the next club to be obsessed with? Notts Forest? Bournemouth? Palace? They need to focus on following the model of winning trophies, not looking downwards at clubs battling top 10-15. 

7 minutes ago, Sunspear_88 said:

Our obsession with trying to replicate Brighton's model is weird. Brighton were a relegation battling club up until a couple seasons ago. There was that weird Brighton fascination with the media last season, but the praise has fallen off this season. Who will be the next club to be obsessed with? Notts Forest? Bournemouth? Palace? They need to focus on following the model of winning trophies, not looking downwards at clubs battling top 10-15. 

Brighton aren't really even that profitable. They have several hundred million pounds of interest-free owner loans propping them up if I remember rightly, just like we had with Roman. They did have a good year on the balance sheet in 22/23, thanks to us overpaying them for Caicedo, Cucurella, Potter et al, but were losing money in the three years preceding that though. 

Since Winstanley joined in November 2022:

Brighton - 1.43 PPG
Chelsea - 1.48 PPG

 

8 hours ago, PloKoon13 said:

Since Winstanley joined in November 2022:

Brighton - 1.43 PPG
Chelsea - 1.48 PPG

 

In LinkedIn speak that's an actionable 3.52% growth on deliverables 

Edited January 16, 20251 yr by SydneyChelsea