Just now, The Rising Sun said:

Who cares about people who use "socials" ?

Whip out the old AI?

1 minute ago, evissy said:

Whip out the old AI?

Is that a euphemism?

1 hour ago, The Rising Sun said:

Is that a euphemism?

I guess in this forum it can pretty much mean anything 😉

1 hour ago, The Rising Sun said:

Is that a euphemism?

Artificial implant?

6 hours ago, DarkMata said:

You talking about £25 million on Ugochukwu who couldn't keep a regular place in the starting 11 of a destined to be relegated Southampton team? An Ugochukwu who has already been replaced by the new Ugochukwu, Amougou who himself has been replaced by the new Amougou before he has kicked a ball in Essugo?

Is Anselmino the Sarr replacement or is Sarr the Anselmino replacement? Is Paez destined to be the Pedro replacement or is that Quenda. Guess Estavao can replace Gittens when he's past it. Remember Kellyman? Totally worth it to get Chukwuemeka. Was Guiu the understudy to Jackson or is that now Delap or maybe that's Fofana? How much will we make on Washington? Remember Kellyman?

Yeah and don't even get me started on the goalkeepers

Too much for me in this heat. Perhaps I will try again when we're going through our usual winter dip.

23 hours ago, El regreso said:

I think we need to just accept that we won’t get back to the highs of where we were with Roman. These f**king clowns want to sign every single average player they can.

Look at city and Liverpool signings all immediately strengthen their squad but our signings I have no f**king clue what they have done.

Some of us accepted that a long time ago.

3 hours ago, evissy said:

Maybe change the name to BlueCo. Someone suggested it but not sure. Not sure what it does to my spotless reputation here. 🤔

I actually like the logo. Good design. Also works nicely in the socials.

Yeah, think it's designed for the plastics. Mmm. The new customers

18 minutes ago, WhiteWall said:

Yeah, think it's designed for the plastics. Mmm. The new customers

New things might be intimidating sometimes. I understand that.

4 hours ago, evissy said:

You asked for it with your very clever alterations and name calling:

✅ Conclusion:

Yes, Chelsea is one of the biggest football clubs in the world—especially when considering modern success, global reach, financial muscle, and reputation.

Everything listed above was built under Roman's ownership, that you so often like to remind us isn't here anymore.

We're a different club under new owners with their own vision.

We've finished outside of Europe a lot more than we have in it under these owners, we're now closer to West Ham than Arsenal these days. You can't can't have it both ways.

8 minutes ago, evissy said:

New things might be intimidating sometimes. I understand that.

Meaningless waffle. Whose intimidated and by what?

Useful signing, and I think he will make an impact here. Overpaid a bit though. He is actually pretty good in the air which I think is a nice option compared to delap and Jackson, although hopefully this means Jackson is sold.

Doesn't score regularly, but I think he would be the sort of forward that could indirectly make opportunities for other as he quite a tricky, unpredictable player.

Don't hate this one, or Gittens really.

This is par for the course now. We can't buy the players that would definitely move the needle, because of the wage structure. So these are the types of deals we will do.

Kudus for Madueke too is a possibility, different players really, but Kudus is the definitely the more rounded and complete footballer, so I'd be pretty happy with that one.

Who's he starting over? Does he improve our starting XI? Does he even make our starting XI?

It's just another quite average player that we've paid double what they're worth for.

Dads a murderer and he dates children too, meh.

1 hour ago, evissy said:

New things might be intimidating sometimes. I understand that.

If you think Chelsea fans are intimidated by a crappy club logo, you really don't know Chelsea fans mate

I quite like the CFC LDN branding to be fair, but can see why traditionalists would hate it.

I actually think Pedro is a good player and played in the right position can be effective.

I understand he’s underwhelming for some but IMO we’ve got a very good player who’s also used to the English game.

He like the other signings have to become world class otherwise they have no resale value.

I think he's a good player, but really nothing special. He may or may not become a leading striker in the league, and doubt anyone knows that for sure.

I think he's a jackson-level striker (remember what was said about Jackson when he was signed?), but more on the physical + aerial and certainly not nearly as pacey.

Imo he was the signing we should've made instead of let's say David Washington back then. Had shown some kind of promise at Watford and already used/known to English football so could develop into something greater and become useful or be sold at a decent profit.

At this point it's a bit of overpay for an slightly above average player, but have no problems with him replacing Nkunku/Jackson in the squad and still has some potential to fulfill although it's not very likely that he becomes a major star. Not a completely ridiculous deal like Felix was, so a bit neutral on this one. Recently I'm more excited about the potential outgoings than the incomings at this point.

6 hours ago, acaeus said:

I think he's a good player, but really nothing special. He may or may not become a leading striker in the league, and doubt anyone knows that for sure.

I think he's a jackson-level striker (remember what was said about Jackson when he was signed?), but more on the physical + aerial and certainly not nearly as pacey.

Is he even a striker? Seem to fit that Felix/Nkunku role of not being a striker and not being an attacking mid but somewhere in between that doesn't really fit the squad.

11 hours ago, Ukraine Bolt said:

Who's he starting over? Does he improve our starting XI? Does he even make our starting XI?

It's just another quite average player that we've paid double what they're worth for.

@timetowaste noticed you rolled your eyes at this one, would love to know why

1 hour ago, Ukraine Bolt said:

@timetowaste noticed you rolled your eyes at this one, would love to know why

Transfermarkt has him on 50m Euros.

14 minutes ago, evissy said:

Transfermarkt has him on 50m Euros.

Surely you're joking, right?

25 minutes ago, evissy said:

Transfermarkt has him on 50m Euros.

I wouldn't place much faith in Transfermarket's monetary values. Their data is based on speculation by contributors.

1 hour ago, Ukraine Bolt said:

Is he even a striker? Seem to fit that Felix/Nkunku role of not being a striker and not being an attacking mid but somewhere in between that doesn't really fit the squad.

That's my issue. Yet another hybrid forward. For that matter I've never really seen him produce at a high level.