May 25, 20241 yr 16 minutes ago, Gordon Bennett said: Here are the teams we'll be facing: We'll have to go through a play-off to secure our place in the league stage. So there's a chance we actually don't get to play in the conference league as well.
May 25, 20241 yr Probably not what the club wanted financially, but even in the mess we are in we should be winning that comfortably. At least we’ll be able to sing champions of Europe and piss off Arsenal again
May 25, 20241 yr Slovan Bratislava there is a blast from the last. Simple answer is better win it. Some potentially tricky sides but no Europa sides drop in to it so no excuses.
May 25, 20241 yr Wonder if we draw anyone where it’s minus 30 in the winter without a heated pitch! The lads ACL’s will love that!
May 25, 20241 yr Don't we lose out on the sponsorship deals we had tried to set up by not qualifying for a proper competition. Also who is giving up their summer holidays to play in the qualifier in a couple of weeks time!
May 25, 20241 yr Is a real test of how well we can comply with FFP now. Conference league offers no money, we wont cover our costs if we win it. Juve ducked out of European football last year as the new they would breach uefas FFP and be hit with some form of fine, likely a large one. Could our owners decided to do the same? Conference league won't help with new sponsors, which once again qe don't have a front of shirt sponsor so while the other teams played in next season kit on the last league game day we did not.
May 26, 20241 yr Hold on, can we not forfeit our entry into this competition? If it's going to be an inconvenience, why are we not withdrawing our participation???
May 26, 20241 yr Never won the Conference League before, so we can hopefully add it to our European trophy honours. Should be clear favourites to win it looking at those teams.
May 26, 20241 yr 1 hour ago, KonaKai Blue said: Hold on, can we not forfeit our entry into this competition? If it's going to be an inconvenience, why are we not withdrawing our participation??? We can sure, Juve did their spot this season, not sure of that was Europa League or conference league though. Either way we can. Let's see what Egbahli decides to do.
May 26, 20241 yr 55 minutes ago, axman2526 said: We can sure, Juve did their spot this season, not sure of that was Europa League or conference league though. Conference League. They were kicked out for FFP breaches.
May 26, 20241 yr 7 hours ago, Jezz said: Conference League. They were kicked out for FFP breaches. They *cough* voluntarily cancelled themselves out of the Conf League as part of a plea bargain.
May 26, 20241 yr We’re Chelsea - nothing is conventional with our club. Ofcourse we’ll be the first to win them all! Plus does the winner get a pass into Europa? Might be a necessary back up
May 26, 20241 yr I posted this in another chat. Can we even afford to be in it? We are rough £90m loss, UEFA will only allow £68m. Plus the hotel sales can’t count so that is rough £130-50m to break even BEFORE 30th June. I hope Clearlake have got some clever accountants because I’m not sure how they get around that one - assuming the figures i posted are accurate. https://metro.co.uk/2024/05/26/will-chelsea-snub-europa-conference-league-can-face-20912278/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3wrNA-OY9X0ly-1Kc5t26tIwhsLsBp1GJl2j6lGkLoWINr4fsPF-BLLWY_aem_AbwIFPSe0oCKN7SrHZNOJqwx7LAAKT-_DpmBdd_GYKEMIM-5vCkhKKUWuJ28c5rjDqZ4d-uoMlf3YeZn__xtalie
May 26, 20241 yr Should win this if we enter the competition. Although the medical team will have hands full, now we get another extra 10 plus games to play.
May 27, 20241 yr Weirdly, the play off round looks like it could be the toughest part of the competition when you look at the teams involved and with it starting towards the end of pre-season.
May 27, 20241 yr 15 hours ago, icecoolguy22 said: Should win this if we enter the competition. Although the medical team will have hands full, now we get another extra 10 plus games to play. If it's a trip to Turkey or Spain it shouldn't be a problem but if there is an odd away match all the way to Georgia or to Finland while it's a bit colder then the medical staff will have to be lucky not to get an extra treatment on their table...
May 27, 20241 yr We'll get booted out before it starts, we're miles off complying with their FFP rules. Imagine selling Conor and Trevor just to compete in the Europa Conference League!
May 27, 20241 yr On 26/05/2024 at 01:55, Jezz said: Never won the Conference League before, so we can hopefully add it to our European trophy honours. Should be clear favourites to win it looking at those teams. If we carry on like this we'll eventually be saying " We've never won the Johnson's Paint Trophy or the Papa John's Cup before, so if we win em it'll be more trophies that Arsenal haven't won" 😜
May 27, 20241 yr We need to add the FA Vase trophy as well. The Checkatrade Cup is another target. "We've nearly won it all" until we add other vital cup trophies.
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