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Marc Guiu

Dr. Socrates
in General Chelsea FC

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2 minutes ago, guddy69 said:

🚨Marc Guiu: "Of course I want to win the Champions League and the Premier League for Chelsea.

On a personal level, I want to help the team as much as I can by scoring lots of goals and I want to become the best centre forward in the world."

~ @ChelseaFC

#9 shirt Marc ? Here you go son ... 

    52 minutes ago, Sexyfootball said:

    Shirt numbers not confirmed yet for any of the new signings.

    He's the man to break the curse though !

    Alan shearer in his pomp would not break that curse.

    On 24/06/2024 at 08:00, Valerie said:

    His name is too much like Marc Guehi. I will get confused. 

    23 minutes ago, JM7 said:

    Didn’t we sell this fella to Palace a couple of years ago?!!

    :laugh2:

    7 hours ago, JM7 said:

    Didn’t we sell this fella to Palace a couple of years ago?!!

    My exact thoughts when opening the thread. I thought we’d triggered a buy back clause. Little did I know Palace converted him to a striker and must have sold him to Barcelona. 

    It's a good move for him. Barcelona haven't produced a proper #9 in decades and they severely mismanaged the last striker prodigy they had (Bojan Krkic). He's probably going to develop much better in England or Germany.

    36 minutes ago, SydneyChelsea said:

    It's a good move for him. Barcelona haven't produced a proper #9 in decades and they severely mismanaged the last striker prodigy they had (Bojan Krkic). He's probably going to develop much better in England or Germany.

    Bojan was such a curious case. A ballon d'or winner in waiting, who couldn't even get a game at stoke (on  a dry sunny weekend , let alone the cliche)

    Who? 

    I guess as a long-term fan, I also have to sign up to this "journey" - I have to Fu**ing "TruST thE ProCEss" - and enjoy watching "talent" fail to make the grade. Cant wait until they decide to sell up and wash their cash elsewhere. Cartel loving cu*ts. How many more years of this crap do we have to put up with. 

     

    7 hours ago, nonotnowjim said:

    Bojan was such a curious case. A ballon d'or winner in waiting, who couldn't even get a game at stoke (on  a dry sunny weekend , let alone the cliche)

    He was just another overhyped player who failed to live up to his potential and lets face it, with the players in that side at the time, a amputee could have socred 20+ goals a season. 

    Hard to get excited about any of these youngsters when most of them are already on the way out. I mean, what happened to the hype around D Fofana, Casedei, Santos, Angelo, and many others? None of them look like doing anything but being flipped for profit.

    7 hours ago, Zeta said:

    Hard to get excited about any of these youngsters when most of them are already on the way out. I mean, what happened to the hype around D Fofana, Casedei, Santos, Angelo, and many others? None of them look like doing anything but being flipped for profit.

    Part of the business. We can snatch up young players from here and there. If they make the first team, great. If not we can loan out to somewhere preferably to Strasbourg and hope they become good enough for the first team. If not, sell when they are at their best. I think we did very well with Omari Hutchinson. 

    2 minutes ago, evissy said:

    Part of the business. We can snatch up young players from here and there. If they make the first team, great. If not we can loan out to somewhere preferably to Strasbourg and hope they become good enough for the first team. If not, sell when they are at their best. I think we did very well with Omari Hutchinson. 

    All well and good, but all the generational talent hype is a load of old bollocks if we are just churning kids on a puppy farm basis.

    3 minutes ago, evissy said:

    Part of the business. We can snatch up young players from here and there. If they make the first team, great. If not we can loan out to somewhere preferably to Strasbourg and hope they become good enough for the first team. If not, sell when they are at their best. I think we did very well with Omari Hutchinson. 

    That reminds me of a neighbour that likes going to the tip to buy cheap sh*t, polish it, give it a bit of a paint and resale it on FB or eBay. They get some profit (not sure if they make up for the petrol and work they put it, but they do it as a hobby) but their house does not get any benefit out of it. Buying cheap players for the sake of loaning them out or selling them to other team can make the owners some profit, but it does not improve our first team. I’m struggling to see the reason behind some of the buys this window other than to polish a turd.

    Having said that, I see the utility of Guiu, he can be competing with Jackson and could become a great player. He covers a position we need to strengthen. Getting KDH does nothing like that.

    10 hours ago, RMH said:

    That reminds me of a neighbour that likes going to the tip to buy cheap sh*t, polish it, give it a bit of a paint and resale it on FB or eBay. They get some profit (not sure if they make up for the petrol and work they put it, but they do it as a hobby) but their house does not get any benefit out of it. Buying cheap players for the sake of loaning them out or selling them to other team can make the owners some profit, but it does not improve our first team. I’m struggling to see the reason behind some of the buys this window other than to polish a turd.

    Having said that, I see the utility of Guiu, he can be competing with Jackson and could become a great player. He covers a position we need to strengthen. Getting KDH does nothing like that.

    That is one way of making revenue. In Roman times (lol) when Cobham was renewed and the aim was to make it worlds best academy a success story was to (still is) make professional footballers and a slam dunk is to make a Premier League player. That didn't mean Chelsea first team. That is what us fans want naturally. Club aims to profit also. This hasn't changed that much.

    Now we have a duo of Sporting directors that have made name to themselves of finding great talents. Boehly and co have given them the license to buy young talents. I think that is something new and something that we should do. 

    I think there is a structure in the likes of:

    Best outcome: this 17 year old becomes the new face of Chelsea in 3 years. Carries much higher value than what we paid for.

    Good outcome: this 17 year old sure is talented but not Chelsea first teamer. If there is no pathway to first team, sell him and make profit (e.g. Omari Hutchinson).

    Okay outcome: this 17 year old is talented but can't see a path to the first team, loan out to Strasbourg or other affiliate club (Portugal, Brazil -sides coming up) and hype up to at least make small profit. 

    Bad outcome: this 17 year old was talented but hasn't progressed like we hoped, sell for loss or release. 

    If you look at percentages and give every option 25% you have much better change of making profit than not. Much depends on scouting and the Sporting directors. 

     

    I think we need to move on from the idea that there is only first team. If you only think about that in isolation you are going to be frustrated many times. I personally like to think about the club level as well. Games are not coming that often so I have more fan-stuff to think about non-match days. 

    11 hours ago, WhiteWall said:

    All well and good, but all the generational talent hype is a load of old bollocks if we are just churning kids on a puppy farm basis.

    But its not anyone at the club using that term, its all the bollockheads on social media. 

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