On 21/01/2026 at 12:02, The Boehly Babes said:

The thing that baffles me the most with this policy of putting the faith in the youth and growing players is that Cobham is producing and has the potential to produce better players than we are currently signing?!

Jesse Derry is better than Jamie Gittens

Reggie Walsh isn’t/wasn’t worse than Buonanotte

Ibrahim Rabbaj, if given sensible minutes and handled correctly could be THE next big thing but we’ll happily sign some unknown South American for 10’s of Millions and that pricetag alone will give them a head start for 1st team minutes.

Hell, if none of them work out at least by giving them game time you’re putting them in the shop window for PuRe PrOfIt 🤮

It’s just such a weird, flawed and stupid business model.

Rabbaj has potential to be a very special footballer, but he's not ready to make the step up yet. I've watched him a few times and the talent is there, but he has no power right now. He doesn't have the power in his ball striking to make it to a higher level yet.

I do agree though that the young players we are signing are no better prospects than we already have at the club. We're basically just telling our young players that there is no pathway to the first team and you're being built up to sell.

He needs some HGH

12 minutes ago, Scott Harris said:

Rabbaj has potential to be a very special footballer, but he's not ready to make the step up yet. I've watched him a few times and the talent is there, but he has no power right now. He doesn't have the power in his ball striking to make it to a higher level yet.

4 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

He needs some HGH

If it’s good enough for Messi…

PR spin in full effect. Didn’t want to buy Maignan because they believe Penders will be elite. As if the two were similar age and not at polar opposite ends of their footballing careers.

These sporting directors have more plot armor than season 5 of Stranger Things.

36 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

PR spin in full effect. Didn’t want to buy Maignan because they believe Penders will be elite. As if the two were similar age and not at polar opposite ends of their footballing careers.

These sporting directors have more plot armour than season 5 of Stranger Things.

They've also rolled Rosenior out this week with some verbal diarrhoea about how Sanchez and Jorgensen are "world class with their feet" ... taking us all for idiots as usual LOL

Edited January 24Jan 24 by Sexyfootball

1 hour ago, Sexyfootball said:

They've also rolled Rosenior out this week with some verbal diarrhoea about how Sanchez and Jorgensen are "world class with their feet" ... taking us all for idiots as usual LOL

It's been said before but ...Oscar Pistorius has better feet than Sanchez.

2 hours ago, Sexyfootball said:

They've also rolled Rosenior out this week with some verbal diarrhoea about how Sanchez and Jorgensen are "world class with their feet" ... taking us all for idiots as usual LOL

You'd have to be Helen Keller to believe that sh*t, and I doubt the lady would believe that

7 hours ago, Sconnie Blue said:

PR spin in full effect. Didn’t want to buy Maignan because they believe Penders will be elite. As if the two were similar age and not at polar opposite ends of their footballing careers.

These sporting directors have more plot armor than season 5 of Stranger Things.

Roughly translated as "There is no resale value for Maignan. But we hope one or 2 of these kids we've signed will fulfill some potential and make us some tidy profits"

Absolute buffoons.. 100 nil down the drain for a left winger.. how are these two clown an upgrade over Sancho Madueke..

like all things blueco individuals out of their depth .. ruining the club each deal at a time..

Pedro, Delap, Gittens, Garnacho, Buonanotte, Hato, Essugo, that was their first team transfers for this season. 4 of them are arguably not even Premier League level (Delap, Gittens, Garnacho, Hato) Buonanotte was a pointless loan that has buggered off to Leeds and Essugo is another sick note. Pedro is the only good one and we don't know if his current form is just another one of his purple patches.

These two twats need to go, and Joe Shields needs to go with them. This is just negligence at this point.

Edited January 31Jan 31 by Scott Harris

7 hours ago, Scott Harris said:

Pedro, Delap, Gittens, Garnacho, Buonanotte, Hato, Essugo, that was their first team transfers for this season. 4 of them are arguably not even Premier League level (Delap, Gittens, Garnacho, Hato) Buonanotte was a pointless loan that has buggered off to Leeds and Essugo is another sick note. Pedro is the only good one and we don't know if his current form is just another one of his purple patches.

These two twats need to go, and Joe Shields needs to go with them. This is just negligence at this point.

If it were a public company the board would have sacked all of these guys..

11 hours ago, Scott Harris said:

Pedro, Delap, Gittens, Garnacho, Buonanotte, Hato, Essugo, that was their first team transfers for this season. 4 of them are arguably not even Premier League level (Delap, Gittens, Garnacho, Hato) Buonanotte was a pointless loan that has buggered off to Leeds and Essugo is another sick note. Pedro is the only good one and we don't know if his current form is just another one of his purple patches.

These two twats need to go, and Joe Shields needs to go with them. This is just negligence at this point.

Won’t be surprised if these Sports Directors are here for 5yr, and we go through multiple Coaches in that period. That is the American way, where the coach is the smallest part of the system. The thinking goes as long as you put together a talented core of players, long term it will pay dividends irrespective of the coach.

A parallel is the Lakers manager, Rob Pelinka who is in the job because he was Kobe Bryant’s former manager. He has been in the role for 8yrs with his only notable achievement being winning the NBA championship during COVID. He also appointed a rookie coach who was an NBA veteran, and TV analyst with zero coaching experience to lead one of the biggest teams in the league.

Amazing work by these clowns again.. glad Jeremy rejected us.. so here are all the players we missed out on -

1. M. Olisie

2. Osimhen

3. Ekiteke

4. Maignon

5. Huijsen

6. Kudus

7. Xavi

8. Jeremy Jackett

This is a reality check for these jokers but no one will tall about it..

it’s not about getting rejected it’s about how players are not seeing through this sand castle..

We continue to hoard young players with no plan.. and treating them like sh*t..

On 01/02/2026 at 03:48, Scott Harris said:

Pedro, Delap, Gittens, Garnacho, Buonanotte, Hato, Essugo, that was their first team transfers for this season. 4 of them are arguably not even Premier League level (Delap, Gittens, Garnacho, Hato) Buonanotte was a pointless loan that has buggered off to Leeds and Essugo is another sick note. Pedro is the only good one and we don't know if his current form is just another one of his purple patches.

These two twats need to go, and Joe Shields needs to go with them. This is just negligence at this point.

JP is the only out of those group that is at least 24 with 3+ years in top flight football

Interesting how things have changed at Chelsea FC over the course of the last few years. Back in the day, we were the most mentioned name during the transfer window, for two reasons. First, we were going after big names and best players and those things always draw public attention. Second , because of our reputation players' agents and journos would constantly use the club's name to serve their own agenda, so Chelsea was also regularly mentioned and linked to a bunch of players we had nothing to do with.

Now it's PR briefs coming out of Egbaly's ass which end up being bullsh*t anyway, when we fail to sign yet another footballer because we "are happy with our squad, believe in the players we've got," etc. And the main transfer news from Chelsea, wait for it.... it's another youngster who's coming back from loan at Strasbourg. 😄

Many said we would do nothing this window as our uefa ffp constraints would not allow it. Here we are.

Shambles.. chasing top 4 .. with no left wing or back up in the midfield.. clueless this lot.

All those briefs that we were going to be busy Making sales too, only to be left needing to try and loan out Disasi and George as no one will buy them.

maybe they will talk of the markets changing and that buying is falling out of favour and that clubs are becoming more cautious and are opting for loans with or without buy options.

Edited February 2Feb 2 by OTL

1 hour ago, axman2526 said:

Many said we would do nothing this window as our uefa ffp constraints would not allow it. Here we are.

There is a theory floating around that ever since UEFA closed the 7yr contract loophole for accounting purposes in 2023, the club has been limited in how much they can spend on transfers. I think the number is £55m; we haven’t spent more than that on a single transfer, couple that with the £150k/w wages headroom it gets trickier signing top quality in the market.

1 hour ago, Jangz said:

Shambles.. chasing top 4 .. with no left wing or back up in the midfield.. clueless this lot.

Arguably chasing top 5

Us, Liverpool and Man Utd chasing two slots and they are both better equipped than we are (and more ambitious, truth be told).

They likely see recalling Sarr and James' versatility to play in midfield as the solutions.

We find ourselves in the very same situation 1 year later, where we are scraping for Top 4/5. In a season where we should've finished in a Champions League space comfortably. I don't care anymore. Even if we do qualify we'll just see more Garnacho's and Delaps as the proven quality alongside more 18-20 year olds.

If not qualifying means the SDs are actually held accountable, then so be it.

Edited February 2Feb 2 by Sconnie Blue

2 hours ago, Sconnie Blue said:

They likely see recalling Sarr and James' versatility to play in midfield as the solutions.

We find ourselves in the very same situation 1 year later, where we are scraping for Top 4/5. In a season where we should've finished in a Champions League space comfortably. I don't care anymore. Even if we do qualify we'll just see more Garnacho's and Delaps as the proven quality alongside more 18-20 year olds.

If not qualifying means the SDs are actually held accountable, then so be it.

Agreed. BUT the SD's are working under the rules of the process that our owners have implemented. So much so that a few months ago they were rewarded with extended contracts up to 2031 in appreciation for the work they have done .

This is the way our owners think is best. ,!!

17 hours ago, abramovich said:

Interesting how things have changed at Chelsea FC over the course of the last few years. Back in the day, we were the most mentioned name during the transfer window, for two reasons. First, we were going after big names and best players and those things always draw public attention. Second , because of our reputation players' agents and journos would constantly use the club's name to serve their own agenda, so Chelsea was also regularly mentioned and linked to a bunch of players we had nothing to do with.

Now it's PR briefs coming out of Egbaly's ass which end up being bullsh*t anyway, when we fail to sign yet another footballer because we "are happy with our squad, believe in the players we've got," etc. And the main transfer news from Chelsea, wait for it.... it's another youngster who's coming back from loan at Strasbourg. 😄

The funniest part is that all of us by now know which one of the rumoured players that we will eventually sign.

For example everyone here know that with semenyo, no chance. Oscar Bobb or some random player that we have never heard of, now that is more likely 😂😂😂

I found this interesting, thought some others might also.